The Story of the Nine Mountains
Author | : Evans and Dickerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
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Author | : Evans and Dickerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140447194 |
This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world. The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical figures such as the gods Foremost, Fond Care, and Yellow, and goddesses Queen Mother of the West and Girl Lovely, as well as many other figures unknown outside this text. This eclectic Classic also contains crucial information on early medicine (with cures for impotence and infertility), omens to avert catastrophe, and rites of sacrifice, and familiar and unidentified plants and animals. It offers a guided tour of the known world in antiquity, moving outwards from the famous mountains of central China to the lands “beyond the seas.” Translated with an introduction and notes by Anne Birrell.
Author | : Reyna Grande |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743269586 |
Grande puts a human face on the epic story about those who make it across the border into America, those who never make it across, and those who are left behind.
Author | : Caleb Swift Carter |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824890132 |
Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago. Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. M. Stirling |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0451414764 |
Rudi Mackenize, now Artos the First, High King of Montival, and his allies have won several key battles against the Church Universal and Triumphant. But still the war rages on, taking countless lives, ravaging the land once known as the United States of America. Artos and his Queen, Mathilda, must unite the realms into a single kingdom to ensure a lasting peace. If the leaders of the Changed world are to accept Artos as their ruler, he will need to undertake a quest to the Lake at the Heart of the Mountains, and take part in a crowning ceremony—a ceremony binding him to his people, his ancestors, and his land. Then, once he has secured his place and allegiances, Artos can go forward, and lead his forces to the heart of the enemy’s territory....
Author | : Michael Tobias |
Publisher | : Overlook Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
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Author | : Jeffrey B. Lilley |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0253032431 |
After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of everyday Soviet citizens but mourning a mystery that might never be solved. While both came from small villages in the beautiful mountainous countryside, they found themselves caught on opposite sides of the Cold War struggle between world superpowers. Altay became the voice of democracy on Radio Liberty, while Aitmatov rose through the ranks of Soviet politics. Yet just as they seemed to be pulled apart in the political turmoil, they found their lives intersecting in moving and surprising ways. Have the Mountains Fallen? traces the lives of these two men as they confronted the full threat and legacy of the Soviet empire. Through personal and intersecting narratives of loss, love, and longing for a homeland forever changed, a clearer picture emerges of the experience of the Cold War from the other side.
Author | : Lance Wallnau |
Publisher | : Destiny Image Publishers |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0768485665 |
You were transformed to transform your world! For too long, Christianity has been defined by a false concept of church. As a result, believers have built walls around their lives, keeping culture at a distance. As Christians have tried to keep culture out of the church, unfortunately, the church has kept itself out of the culture. This was never Jesus’ design for the your life! Before church was established as a place that people “came to,” Jesus instituted it as an army that brought transformation to society, starting with salvation and continuing with seven spheres of influence: Church, family, education, government, media, arts, and commerce. Six revolutionary voices in the modern church deliver Invading Babylon. This essential guide will equip you to: Understand your vital role in shaping society. Release God’s will in your sphere of influence. Become an unstoppable citizen in God’s Kingdom. It’s your time to arise and be a light in a dark world.
Author | : Jean Craighead George |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2001-05-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593115007 |
"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book