Gods of the City

Gods of the City
Author: Robert A. Orsi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999-07-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780253212764

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The Gods in Their Cities

The Gods in Their Cities
Author: Richard Leviton
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0595383394

A fresh look at the perennial reality of the gods and how they help humanity-through the planet's sacred sites The "gods" live! Though seemingly relegated to the archives of myth, the "gods" of antiquity are still with us in the form of the Great White Brotherhood. In fact, what the ancients described as their pantheon are members of this is an august assembly of spiritually advanced beings, based on the constellation of the Great Bear. The Gods in Their Cities, based on original clairvoyant research, reveals that the Great White Brotherhood has numerous meeting places for humans throughout the planet's array of holy sites. Seven different Great White Brotherhood types of geomantic locales are documented, and all of them exist in multiple copies on Earth. The Gods in Their Cities shows how myths of many cultures, from the Irish to Sumerians, are actually psychic maps to the planet's secret visionary terrain, to the geomantic locales of the Brotherhood, and how to successfully interact with them. And it probes behind the mythic guises of the Ray Masters, 14 select great Adepts involved with many aspects of Earth life and geomancy since the beginning-including the true identity of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary, and Merlin. Merely our knowing that this esoteric Brotherhood and their interactive locales across the Earth exist can inspire confidence, even certainty, that reality, and thus our planet, culture, and individual human lives, have meaning and are purposeful.

City of the Gods

City of the Gods
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1623347793

Explore the ruins of the ancient metropolis and ceremonial complex of Teotihuacan (Mexico) and experience what life was like for the people who lived there.

The Daily Life of the Greek Gods

The Daily Life of the Greek Gods
Author: Giulia Sissa
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804736145

Discusses the everyday life of the gods of the Iliad, including what their bodies were made of, how they received nourishment, their social life on Olympus and among humans, and their loves, festivities, and disputes.

Empire and Religion

Empire and Religion
Author: Elena Muñiz Grijalvo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004347119

This volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial religious policies (Gordillo, Galimberti, Rosillo-López); or the locally different responses to central religious initiatives, and the influence of those local responses in other imperial contexts (Cortés, Melfi, Lozano, Rizakis). All the chapters try to suggest that religion in the Greek cities of the empire was both conservative and innovative, and that the ‘Roman factor’ helps to explain this apparent paradox.

City of 201 Gods

City of 201 Gods
Author: Jacob Olupona
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520265564

The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place.

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?
Author: Paul Veyne
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1988-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226854342

An examination of Greek mythology and a discussion about how religion and truth have evolved throughout time.

City of Stairs

City of Stairs
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804137188

An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over.

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan
Author: Kathleen Berrin
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780500277676

Fifteen hundred years ago, Teotihuacan was one of the world's greatest cities. Some 200,000 people lived in this Mexican metropolis, with its massive public buildings, grid plan of streets and imposing murals and sculpture. Its trading empire dominated much of ancient Mexico. Then, in the 8th century, came a mysterious collapse. Even knowledge of the original name was lost: Teotihuacan, City of the Gods, was a title bestowed by the Aztecs six hundred years later.

Household Gods

Household Gods
Author: Alexandra Sofroniew
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606064568

Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could have a deep personal and spiritual meaning. Roman houses were often filled with images of gods. Gods and goddesses were represented in mythological paintings on walls and in decorative mosaics on floors, in bronze and marble sculptures, on ornate silver dining vessels, and on lowly clay oil lamps that lit dark rooms. Even many modest homes had one or more religious objects that were privately venerated. Ranging from the humble to the magnificent, these small objects could be fashioned in any medium from terracotta to precious metal or stone. Showcasing the collections in the Getty Villa, this book’s emphasis on the spiritual beliefs and practices of individuals promises to make the works of Greek and Roman art more accessible to readers. Compelling representations of private religious devotion, these small objects express personal ways of worshiping that are still familiar to us today. A chapter on contemporary domestic worship further enhances the relevance of these miniature sculptures for modern viewers.