The Spindle Hearth ~A Sourcebook for Goddess-Centered Living~

The Spindle Hearth ~A Sourcebook for Goddess-Centered Living~
Author: D. Kate Dooley
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1411694058

Magic is practical: the air you breathe, the fire of your will, your strong emotions, all coming together into form. This book is a window into methods used by one hearth keeper to enhance her own life and those of her kindred and family through the use of magic. It's a homespun treasury of skills: divination, prayers, meditations, and rites that will enable you to build your inner fire for the practical purpose of making daily life better. The exercises given within this book are centered on the energies of the Twelve Powers embodied by the Goddesses known as Handmaidens to Frgga: Syn, Fulla, Gna, Var, Lofn, Eir, Sjofn, Hlin, Saga, Gefjon, Snotra and Vor; twelve powers who give fire to the center, to All-Mother, the Goddess of the Hearth. Learn about daily rites, needfire, and ways to keep Frigga's sacred day and how to apply this knowledge to your own life from this sourcebook born of the need to engage the magic of All-Mother.

Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner

Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner
Author: Galina Krasskova
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2008-11-21
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1601639546

An essential guide to expand your spiritual practices for followers of Norse Paganism, Heathenry, Asatru, and other Northern Traditions. Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner is a groundbreaking look at devotional work in religions from Theodism to Asatru to Norse Paganism, all of which comprise the umbrella of the Northern Tradition. Although interest in devotional and experiential work within these traditions has been growing rapidly in the past few years, this is the first book to show the diverse scope of such practices as a living, modern-day religion. It features an in-depth exploration of altar work, prayer, prayer beads, ritual work, sacred images, and lore, and a thorough examination of common cosmology that forms the foundation of belief for Northern Tradition communities and related Heathen practices. Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner is not denomination-specific: rather, it seeks to provide an entry into interior practice for anyone involved in a branch of this broad family of traditions of the ancient Norse, Germanic, and Saxon peoples, using material suitable for the solitary, independent practitioner. Those outside of the Northern Tradition who wish to deepen their own devotional practice will find this book helpful in their own work, as well.

Signs and Symbols

Signs and Symbols
Author: Adrian Frutiger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.

Roman Clothing and Fashion

Roman Clothing and Fashion
Author: Alexandra Croom
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1445612445

A detailed, finely researched and profusely illustrated history of clothing and fashion in the Roman Empire.

Women in the Ancient Near East

Women in the Ancient Near East
Author: Marten Stol
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614512639

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

On Heroes

On Heroes
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004127012

This English translation, with introduction and notes, an extensive glossary, maps, and topical bibliographies, explores religious authority and revealed knowledge and is indispensable for the study of Homer, heroes, literature, religion, and culture in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Author: Wendy Cotter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134814429

Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity presents a collection in translation of miracle stories from the ancient world. The material is divided up into four main categories including healing, exorcism, nature and raising the dead. Wendy Cotter, in an introduction and notes to the selections, contextualizes the miracles within the background of the Greco-Roman world and also compares the stories to other Jewish and non-Jewish miracle stories of the Mediterranean world. This sourcebook provides an interdisciplinary collection of material which will be of value to students of the New Testament.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1901
Genre:
ISBN:

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage
Author: Warren S. Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2010-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472026291

Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.

Religious Context of Early Christianity

Religious Context of Early Christianity
Author: Hans-Josef Klauck
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567089434

This is a uniquely well-informed and comprehensive guide to the world of religion in the Graeco-Roman environment of early Christianity. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, the volume paints a carefully nuanced portrait of the Christians' religious context. Besides describing ordinary domestic and civic religion and popular belief (including astrology, divination and 'magic'), there is extended discussion of mystery cults, ruler and emperor cults, the religious dimensions of philosophy, and Gnosticism. A valuable textbook for advanced students, as well as an authoritative reference work for scholars.