Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms write by F. Kent Reilly. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.
Celestial Realms
Celestial Realms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celestial Realms write by Nancy Tingley. This book was released on 2012. Celestial Realms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Kathmandu Valley is the most populated region of Nepal, and the Newar, probable descendants of the Kirati who settled in the Valley in the first millennium BCE, have for centuries created the art featured in Celestial Realms. In additin to Hindu and Buddhist sculpture and paintings, tribal works from the middle hill region are also included, providing a contrast with Newar production.
The Celestial Realms
The Celestial Realms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Celestial Realms write by Francesca Marks. This book was released on 2018-01-03. The Celestial Realms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Delving into the celestial realms of shamanism, dreams, magic, angels, deities and meditation, wonders and insights.
Song of the Six Realms
Song of the Six Realms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Song of the Six Realms write by Judy I. Lin. This book was released on 2024-04-23. Song of the Six Realms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy standalone romance about a talented musician swept away to the Celestial Realm by a handsome duke in Song of the Six Realms. Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn’t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract. With no family and no patron, Xue is facing the possibility of a lifetime of servitude playing the qin for nobles that praise her talent with one breath and sneer at her lowly social status with the next. Then one night she is unexpectedly called to the garden to put on a private performance for the enigmatic Duke Meng. For a young man of nobility, he is strangely kind and awkward, and surprises Xue further with an irresistible offer: serve as a musician in residence at his manor for one year, and he’ll set her free of her indenture. But the Duke’s motives become increasingly more suspect when he and Xue barely survive an attack by a nightmarish monster, and when he whisks her away to his estate, she discovers he’s not just some country noble: He’s the Duke of Dreams, one of the divine rulers of the Celestial Realm. There she learns the Six Realms are on the brink of disaster, and incursions by demonic beasts are growing more frequent. The Duke needs Xue’s help to unlock memories from her past that could hold the answers to how to stop the impending war... but first Xue will need to survive being the target of every monster and deity in the Six Realms. Also by Judy I. Lin: A Magic Steeped in Poison A Venom Dark and Sweet
Realms I Have Known
Realms I Have Known - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Realms I Have Known write by Reverend Bob. This book was released on 2021-08-02. Realms I Have Known available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bob describes the book as providing Christian solutions to overcoming obstacles like self doubts, anger, anxiety and addictions of all kinds. Discovering and adopting the good realms can prepare a reader to live a happy and productive life.
