African Mythology: A to Z (2nd Edition)

Humans use mythology and ritual to establish a sense of community, identity, and an understanding of their place in the universe. These to...

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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific...

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Egyptian Mythology A to Z

Egypt's myths are among the earliest in the ancient world. "Egyptian Mythology A to Z, Revised Edition" brings to life the f...

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The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple ofthe Sun

Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity’s holiest site...

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Odun: Discourses, Strategies and Power in the Yoruba Play ofTransformation

A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is...

5:10 AM

The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt

According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. F...

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Abusir: Realm of Osiris

At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after...

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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (TheFabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1)

Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systema...

8:47 AM

The Lure of the Honeybird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia

A bestselling, award-winning author turns her hand to a work of travel memoir with this book. In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird ...

9:46 AM

West African Folk Tales

Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the univer...

9:12 AM

Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World'sCosmologies

Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world • Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre...

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San Rock Art

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representation...

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Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context

J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological st...

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When Night Falls, Kric! Krac!: Haitian Folktales

When night falls in Haiti, it's time for stories. The storyteller says kric, the audience responds krac, and all of the children becom...

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Yoruba Myths

This collection of myths - some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing - illustrate the r...

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The Way of Orisa: Empowering Your Life Through the Ancient African Religion of Ifa

Carried to the Americas by slaves, the 8,000-year-old philosophy of Ifa originated with the Yoruba peoples of West Africa. Ifa's endur...

1:15 PM

Yorro Yorro: Everything Standing Up Alive: Rock Art and Stories From the Australian Kimberley

In a remarkable collaboration, Aboriginal elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that reaches back 60,000 ...

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African Folktales

Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and h...

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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller

In this marvelous collection of hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales, Harold Scheub captures the immense sweep and div...

5:09 PM

China's Cosmological Prehistory: The Sophisticated Science Encoded in Civilization's Earliest Symbols by Laird Scranton

An examination of the earliest creation traditions and symbols of China and their similarities to those of other ancient cultures • Revea...

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