Cult of the Ibis

Cult of the Ibis
Author: Daria Tessler
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: Alternative comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 168396196X

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This exquisite and mostly silent graphic novel takes place in a fantasy cityscape loosely inspired by German Expressionist film. Cult of the Ibis tells a story of an occultist getaway-driver who, after escaping with the loot from a bank robbery gone wrong, orders a build-your-own homunculus kit and goes on the lam.

Studies in Hellenistic Religions

Studies in Hellenistic Religions
Author: M. J. Vermaseren
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004295577

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Preliminary material /M. J. Vermaseren -- THE HELLENISTIC CONCEPT OF THE ENVIOUSNESS OF FATE /G. J. D. Aalders H. Wzn -- THE LEGEND OF CYBELE'S ARRIVAL IN ROME /JAN BREMMER -- THE CISTA MYSTICA IN THE CULT AND MYSTERIES OF ISIS /M. S. H. G. HEERMA VAN VOSS -- DER SCHATTEN IM HELLENISTISCHEN VOLKSGLAUBEN /P. W. VAN DER HORST -- BOTPYC BOHCEI. The Age of Kronos and the Millennium in Papias of Hierapolis /H. J. DE JONGE -- THE REALITY OF THE INVISIBLE. Some Remarks on St John XIV 8 and Greek Philosophic Tradition /TH. KORTEWEG -- JERUSALEM, WOHNSITZ DER WEISHEIT /J. C. H. LEBRAM -- PROVIDENCE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE IN EARLY STOIC THOUGHT. With Some Remarks on the “Mysteries of Philosophy” /J. MANSFELD -- THE INTERPRETATIO JUDAICA OF SARAPIS /GERARD MUSSIES -- ILLNESS AND SIN, FORGIVING AND HEALING. The Connection of Medical Treatment and Religious Beliefs in Ben Sira 38, 1-15 /SIJBOLT NOORDA -- THE CULT OF THE IBIS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD. With Special Attention to the Data from the Papyri /K. A. D. SMELIK -- FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS AND THE MYSTERIES /W. C. VAN UNNIK -- SOME REMARKS ON THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF MONICA, MOTHER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE /CORNELIA W. WOLFSKEEL.

On the Path to the Place of Rest

On the Path to the Place of Rest
Author: Christina Di Cerbo
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1948488426

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In this volume Christina Di Cerbo and Richard Jasnow publish 92 Demotic graffiti, along with several ostraca and mummy bandages, from Theban Tombs 11, 12, Tomb-399-, and environs recorded and studied under the aegis of the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu el-Naga directed by Jose Galan. These texts from the mid-second century BCE were inscribed on the tomb walls by workers of the Ibis and Falcon cult, who used the New Kingdom tombs as burial places for mummified birds dedicated to the gods Thoth and Horus. This varied corpus of texts includes not only votive formulae and lists of names, but, most unusually, labels for chambers and halls to guide the men depositing the mummies through the labyrinthine catacombs. The cult workers also recorded important burials and memorialized events of special significance, as when a massive conflagration broke out that consumed several mummies and damaged the tomb walls. The Missions conservators recovered many hitherto virtually invisible graffiti. Numerous inscriptions posed daunting epigraphic challenges; the text editors employed computer applications, especially DStretch, in order to enhance the digital images forming the basis for decipherment. In an introductory chapter Galan discusses the work of the Spanish Mission at Dra Abu Naga and recounts the complicated history of this important area of the Theban Necropolis down to the Roman period. The graffiti illustrate how New Kingdom tombs were reused for the sacred animal cult in the Ptolemaic period. Francisco Bosch-Puche and Salima Ikram contribute a detailed chapter analyzing the archaeological context of the graffiti and the material evidence for the animal cult in the site. The volume, a holistic study of this area at the twilight of Pharaonic history, represents a true collaboration between archaeologists and philologists.

Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible

Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
Author: Karel van der Toorn
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 1006
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802824912

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The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is the single major reference work on the gods, angels, demons, spirits, and semidivine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. Book jacket.

The Scientific Study of Mummies

The Scientific Study of Mummies
Author: Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780521818261

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Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis
Author: Gill Lewis
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481449427

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When a fire leaves twelve-year-old Scarlet in a different foster home than her autistic little brother, she tracks a bird to find her way back to him in this deeply moving illustrated novel from the author of Wild Wings. Scarlet doesn’t have an easy life. She’s never known her dad, her mom suffers from depression, and her younger brother Red has Asperger’s and relies heavily on her to make the world a safe place for him. Scarlet does this by indulging Red’s passion for birds, telling him stories about the day they’ll go to Trinidad and see all the wonderful birds there (especially his beloved Scarlet Ibis), saving her money to take him to the zoo, helping him collect bird feathers, and even caring for a baby pigeon who is nesting outside his window. But things with her mom are getting harder, and after a dangerous accident, Scarlet and Red are taken into foster care and separated. As Scarlet struggles to cope with the sudden changes in her life and her complex feelings towards her mom, the one thing she won’t give up on is finding Red. Nothing is going to get in her way—even if it might destroy the new possibilities offered to her by her foster family.

The Garbage Times/White Ibis

The Garbage Times/White Ibis
Author: Sam Pink
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1593766866

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“I love the pulse of Sam Pink’s sentences, the way they can hold the gorgeous and the grisly and the hilarious all at the same time. The Garbage Times/White Ibis thrilled me and messed me up, left me feeling a little dazed and a lot changed.” —Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel and Find Me From the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties. A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal. The edition is designed with tête-bêche binding as a single volume.

Bezimena

Bezimena
Author: Nina Bunjevac
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-05-29
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1683962095

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The author’s jumping-off point is the myth of Artemis and Siproites, in which a young man is turned into a woman as a punishment for the attempted rape of one of Artemis’s virgin cohorts. Bunjevac’s retelling follows Benny, a sexually deviant man who, coming across an alluring former classmate, concocts an elaborate, disturbing rape fantasy. Inked in her lush, stippled, illustrative style, Bunjevac crafts a gripping, noirish, Nabokovian tale, by turns surreal and harrowing, that turns the male gaze inside-out. Bezimena is both a radical examination of the misconceptions surrounding rape culture and an artistic and psychological tour de force.

The Archive of Ḥor

The Archive of Ḥor
Author: J. D. Ray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1976
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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Deals with Inscriptions texts found at Ancient Egyptian animal necropolises in Egypt, particularly at North Saqquâra and the Serapeum of Memphis.

Amentet

Amentet
Author: Alfred Ernest Knight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1915
Genre: Amulets
ISBN:

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