The Phoenix Is A Strange Bird
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| Author | : Jr Owen D Nee |
| Publisher | : FriesenPress |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2010-05-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1770670017 |
The Phoenix is a Strange Bird is a novel about two honest men caught in a war that has lost both glory and support, but nevertheless remains their mission. Advisors on a team providing assistance to a provincial government north of Saigon, the Colonel and the Captain face a weakened enemy that seldom shows its face, but manages to control the villages through terror at night. The two Americans devise a way to make pacification work. Success in a war that is winding-down has many enemies.
| Author | : Charles William King |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1864 |
| Genre | : Amulets |
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| Author | : Joseph Nigg |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2016-11-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022619552X |
An “insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird” from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal). The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? Here, mythologist Joseph Nigg presents a comprehensive biography of this legendary creature. Beginning in ancient Egypt, Nigg’s sweeping narrative discusses the many myths and representations of the phoenix, including legends of the Chinese, where it was considered a sacred creature that presided over China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it appears in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; medieval Christianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo. “An exceptional work of scholarship.”—Publishers Weekly
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| Publisher | : princeton alumni weekly |
| Total Pages | : 652 |
| Release | : 2009 |
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| Author | : Mizuumi Amakawa |
| Publisher | : J-Novel Club |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2021-04-05 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1718330723 |
Ash, who is studying in Itsutsu city to revive the convenient and plentiful life from the legends of the ancient civilization, managed to successfully produce compost and reintroduce tomatoes as an officially accepted edible food. After recovering from his fight with the werewolf, he once again aims to further improve the living standards of the city! Amidst all that, his fellow student Hermes is mocked for crafting a model airplane and daring to dream of soaring through the skies. In a world without the internal combustion engine, let alone cars, such ambitions only provoke laughter amongst his classmates, but Hermes persists. Deeply impressed by Hermesâ passion for flying, and slightly motivated by self-interest, Ash decides to help him revive aeronautical technology. He is determined to have the last laugh. This is the third chapter of the story about a young boy who sets out to revolutionize the world in order to rebuild civilization and create his ideal life!
| Author | : Wu ZiQi |
| Publisher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : 678 |
| Release | : 2020-04-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 164884619X |
Since the birth of the Yinyang Continent, the two races of Yin and Yang had been born and bred. The Yang Race possessed the attribute of 'goodness', and possessed all sorts of superpowers to defend their 'goodness'. The attribute of the Yin Clan was' evil '. Demons, demons, ghosts, and other creatures belonged to it. They wanted to enslave the Yang Clan and control the entire continent. A youth who had comprehended 'creating from nothing' from the 'Classic of Virtue' was not tolerated by the current Heavenly Dao and had his body destroyed. His soul, by chance and coincidence, was taken in by the Yinyang Continent and reborn into the body of an ordinary Yang Clan youth. None: "The Yang race is good, forsaken by the Evil God; the Yin race is evil, born of the Good God. Tell me what is evil and what is good? " Close]
| Author | : John Punnett Peters |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1905 |
| Genre | : Mareshah (Ancient city) |
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| Author | : San QianCha |
| Publisher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : 913 |
| Release | : 2020-09-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1636662293 |
The Xiao family had two women in their line of descent. The one who was born to be a piece of trash was the eldest daughter, Xiao Boyang. The people laughed at her, humiliated her, and looked down on her; her white clothes fluttered in the wind, and her celestial figure was beautiful and elegant. The people of the world praised her, praised her, and worshipped her as a goddess. In regards to this, Xiao Boxiang had a vile smile on his face. "White Lotus, we'll see!" After traveling across the world, she became a well-known, rich young miss of the Xiao family. She was born useless, so she had a fire burning in her body, and then she reconstructed her meridians. Allure was her. She was from the Ascendant continent. She was the one who crushed the white lotus, the Mysterious Beast, and the man dressed like a demon. Whose young heart did she steal?
| Author | : Lai HaMaJiuChiTianERou |
| Publisher | : Funstory |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2020-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1647878497 |
Introduction to Divine Spell: What! He actually transmigrated? So what if he transmigrated? He actually possessed the body of a Good-for-nothing? God, do you want to play me to death! Apprentice Yuan, a super abnormal person who was born with divine power and was only 23 years old, yet had already reached the legendary Innate Stage. Yet, he died because he was young and easily trifled with other people's tricks, while he transmigrated to the Heavenly Calamity Continent and went through an unimaginable journey. What exactly was in front of him? Was it endless death? Or was it the A Peerless Expert that ruled the continent? All of this is just a mystery, let's enter the Deicide to find the real answer.
| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2020-05-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520344588 |
The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic, and diverse culture, which cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity. Shining new light on a series of playful, imaginative texts that are left out of the traditional accounts of Greek literature, Whitmarsh models a more adventurous, exploratory approach to later Greek culture. Beyond the Second Sophistic offers not only a new way of looking at Greek literature from 300 BCE onwards, but also a challenge to the Eurocentric, aristocratic constructions placed on the Greek heritage. Accessible and lively, it will appeal to students and scholars of Greek literature and culture, Hellenistic Judaism, world literature, and cultural theory.
