Author: Robert Siblerud
Publisher: New Science Publications
Keywords: chronicles, sacred, science, volume, civilizations, mysteries, ancient, beginning
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0966685601
ISBN-13: 9780966685602
In The Beginning examine the history and evidence behind prehistorical civilizations including Lemuria, Atlantis, Sumer, Egypt, Central America, South America, Europe, and North America. The book provides evidence that the Celts, Egyptians, and Phoenicians inhabited North America long before Columbus. It also explains who the gods were.
Author: Caroline Humphrey
Publisher: Thorso
Keywords: sacred, spaces, understand, explore, architecture
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2003-04-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0007662408
ISBN-13: 9780007662401
This is a vivid, richly illustrated exploration of the symbolism and significance of sacred architectural forms from spires and minarets to pyramids and temples.
Author: Steven Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sacred, city, tokyo, neighborhoods, sites, tale, low, religious
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2011-12-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0199861447
ISBN-13: 9780199861446
In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices. The book uses case studies of religious sites at two representative but contrasting Tokyo neighborhoods as a basis for reflecting on this apparently contradictory quality. In what ways does Japan continue to carry on and adapt tradition, and to what extent has modern secular society lost touch with the traditional elements of re
Author: Antoinette May
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: novel, sacred
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061695556
ISBN-13: 9780061695551
A young reporter in 1923, Alma Reed accompanies archaeologists to the ruins of Chichen Itza, where a fortune in Mayan artifacts has been stolen from a sacrificial well. It’s believed a curse was unleashed by the theftyet the career-making story it offers the ambitious journalist seems a godsend. It also leads her to a passionate love affair with revolutionary governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto. But when fate darkens their lives and damns them as doomed political pawns, Alma can’t help but wonder if the curse is not, in fact, very real. In another century, another writer is fascina
Author: Starhawk
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: thing, sacred, fifth
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0553373803
ISBN-13: 9780553373806
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Reprint.
Authors:Steven Ash, Ash Renate,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: drumming, sacred
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0806926570
ISBN-13: 9780806926575
Take a guided tour from a writer who grew up and studied on Native American reservations and join those throughout the worldfrom Siberia to South America, Australia to Africawho venerate the drum for its healing and celebratory powers. Through painting, cleansing, blessing, smudging, dedicating, chanting, and performing, youll find your own special beat, transforming the drum into a medicinal tool. Become one with a purchased or homemade instrument. Draw on the knowledge of Native American and other cultures to drum away fear, purify, establish a sacred space, and reach into areas of the co
Author: Gary Thoma
Publisher: Zonderva
Keywords: marriage, sacred
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0310242827
ISBN-13: 9780310242826
Starting with the discovery that the goal of marriage goes beyond personal happiness, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites readers to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation
