An exploration of the influence of secret societies on the formative documents and symbols of the United States Reveals the Founding Fathers spiritual vision for America as encoded in the Great Seal Traces the influence of the Iroquois League of Nations upon the Constitution Exposes the deep connections the Founding Fathers had with the Freemasons and other secret societiesAll children growing up in America learn who the Founding Fathers were.
"Der Kapitalismus hält sich nicht deshalb so hartnäckig, weil er sich gegen jede Kritik immunisiert, sondern weil er sie in null Komma nix schluckt und obendrein noch Geld daraus zieht.
El coneixement sobre els sants Abdó i Senent ('"els Sants de la Pedra" també coneguts, per exemple, com "Sant Nin i Sant Non") permet aplegar a la conclusió que formen part d'u dels elements matriarcals vinculats a la cultura catalana del segle X i que, des dels Pirineus, s'expandí per moltes poblacions de la Corona Catalanoaragonesa.
Un recull de contes tradicionals destinats als adultsContes i llegendes dels arbres aplega trenta-tres històries d'orígens molt diversos: Europa, Sibèria, Àfrica, Orient Mitjà, Àsia, el Pacífic i Sud-amèrica.
It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
Während ihre Welt in einen Krieg zu stürzen droht, begeben sich drei junge Helden von verschiedenen Seiten des Konflikts auf eine gefährliche Suche, die alles verändern könnte.
The legends are of a little archipelago which was unknown to the civilized world until the closing years of the last century, and of a people who for many centuries exchanged no word or product with the rest of mankind; who had lost all knowledge, save the little retained by the dreamiest of legends, of the great world beyond their island home; whose origin may be traced to the ancient Cushites of Arabia, and whose legends repeat the story of the Jewish genesis; who developed and passed through an age of chivalry somewhat more barbarous, perhaps, but scarcely less affluent in deeds of enterprise and valor than that which characterized the contemporaneous races of the continental world; whose chiefs and priests claimed kinship with the gods, and step by step told back their lineage not only to him who rode the floods, but to the sinning pair whose re-entrance to the forfeited joys of Paradise was prevented by the large, white bird of Kane ; who fought without shields and went to their death without fear; whose implements of war and industry were of wood, stone and bone, yet who erected great temples to their gods, and constructed barges and canoes which they navigated by the stars; who peopled the elements with spirits, reverenced the priesthood, bowed to the revelations of their prophets, and submitted without complaint to the oppressions of the tabu ; who observed the rite of circumcision, built places of refuge after the manner of the ancient Israelites, and held sacred the religious legends of the priests and chronological meles of the chiefs.
In primeval times, a maiden,Beauteous Daughter of the Ether,Passed for ages her existenceIn the great expanse of heaven,O'er the prairies yet enfolded.
En esta acuciosa investigación Oreste Plath recorre la geografía chilena recogiendo mitos y leyendas de la memoria colectiva en una verdadera incitación a imaginar y soñar con aquello que nos conecta con lo más profundo de nuestras raíces: En esta Geografía se han ordenado mitos pascuenses de la isla chilena etnoarqueológica que proporcionan una gravitación polinésica; mapuches que dan a conocer la genealogía de sus deidades, con la explicación de los atributos peculiares de cada uno de ellos; los chiloenses con personificaciones constituidas con elementos que tienen relación con salud, enfermedad, muerte y animales que conforman un bestiario fantástico; y la cosmogonía de la cultura patagónica con sus espíritus del mal y del bien, con sus sueños y presagios, con sus genios poderosos que maniobran a su arbitrio a los hombres y a los elementos naturales.
Los autores, profundos conocedores de los secretos del arco y la arquería, decidieron embarcarse en una aventura compleja que les requirió mucho tiempo de investigación y recopilación de datos.
La obra propone una aproximacion historica al proceso de construccion del mito la Llorona, con base en una de las profecias que anunciaron la conquista y en torno a las diosas prehispanicas de la fertilidad, nominalmente Cihuacoatl.
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A comprehensive study of Jewish magic in the late antiquity and the early Islamic period the phenomenon, the sources, and method for its research, and the history of scholarly investigation into its nature and origin.
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos.
Given the widespread consensus that the Qur'an was in oral tradition before being committed to written form, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Qur'an still bears the traces of its original oral form.
De les actes dels processos inquisitorials fins a festes populars com el Ball del Cornut de Cornellà del Terri, de l'obra de poetes com Salvador Espriu a les arrels basques de la cultura ibera, Bilbeny ens embarca en un viatge per l'imaginari cultural català, sempre desvetllant les veritats que s'amaguen més enllà dels relats oficials.
It is not the purpose of this volume to deal to any considerable extent with the history of the Indians, but simply to present some of the legends of the Iroquois.
