The Serpent & The Dead - 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 Serpent & The Dead write by Anna Stephens. This book was released on 2021-08-03. The Serpent & The Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinary duo of Asgardian Heroines battle across the Ten Realms, in this epic fantasy adventure set in Marvel’s Legends of Asgard In the midst of a bloody conflict, Lady Sif, the valiant Asgardian warrior, watches her close friend die in glorious battle – but her soul is not taken to the eternal halls of Valhalla. Furious and petrified that the afterlife for her and all Asgardians is in peril, she enlists the aid of Brunnhilde the Valkyrie, the fearsome warrior entrusted with conveying worthy souls to the heroes’ afterlife. Together they scour Asgard for answers. Rumors abound of towns being attacked by a horde of soldiers who cannot be killed. Someone is building an immortal army and stealing Asgardian souls… A worthy challenge for two of Asgard’s mightiest champions!
The Wisdom of the Serpent
The Wisdom of the Serpent - 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 Wisdom of the Serpent write by Joseph Lewis Henderson. This book was released on 2020-07-21. The Wisdom of the Serpent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow - 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 Serpent and the Rainbow write by Wade Davis. This book was released on 2010-10-05. The Serpent and the Rainbow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
The Wisdom of the Serpent
The Wisdom of the Serpent - 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 Wisdom of the Serpent write by Joseph L. Henderson. This book was released on 1963. The Wisdom of the Serpent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or, How Not to Do it Again
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or, How Not to Do it Again - 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 Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or, How Not to Do it Again write by Jean Claude Van Itallie. This book was released on 1983. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or, How Not to Do it Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE STORY: Based on the classic Buddhist text, the play deals with the transmigration of the soul and the choices to be made as the spirit hovers in suspended animation. Brilliantly theatrical in concept and execution, the piece blends music, mime,
