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Practical Mysticism (Paperback): Evelyn Underhill Practical Mysticism (Paperback)
Evelyn Underhill
R492 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Divination with Runes - A Beginner's Guide to Rune Casting (Paperback): Monique Joiner Siedlak Divination with Runes - A Beginner's Guide to Rune Casting (Paperback)
Monique Joiner Siedlak
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Egyptian Mythology - A Guide to Egyptian History, Gods, and Mythology (Paperback): Peter Collins Egyptian Mythology - A Guide to Egyptian History, Gods, and Mythology (Paperback)
Peter Collins
R321 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Unmasking the Grand Delusion (Paperback): Christopher Phillip Tyreman Unmasking the Grand Delusion (Paperback)
Christopher Phillip Tyreman
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome (Paperback): Lindsay C. Watson Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome (Paperback)
Lindsay C. Watson
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly malignant kind. In seven chapters, each addressed to an important arm of Greco-Roman magic, the volume discusses the history of the rediscovery and publication of the so-called Greek Magical Papyri, a key source for our understanding of ancient magic; the startling violence of ancient erotic spells and the use of these by women as well as men; the alteration in the landscape of defixio (curse tablet) studies by major new finds and the confirmation these provide that the frequently lethal intent of such tablets must not be downplayed; the use of herbs in magic, considered from numerous perspectives but with an especial focus on the bizarre-seeming rituals and protocols attendant upon their collection; the employment of animals in magic, the factors determining the choice of animal, the uses to which they were put, and the procuring and storage of animal parts, conceivably in a sorcerer's workshop; the witch as a literary construct, the clear homologies between the magical procedures of fictional witches and those documented for real spells, the gendering of the witch-figure and the reductive presentation of sorceresses as old, risible and ineffectual; the issue of whether ancient magicians practised human sacrifice and the illuminating parallels between such accusations and late 20th century accounts of child-murder in the context of perverted Satanic rituals. By challenging a number of orthodoxies and opening up some underexamined aspects of the subject, this wide-ranging study stakes out important new territory in the field of magical studies.

Pre-Adamites And The Antediluvian World - The World That Then Was (Paperback): Zen Garcia Pre-Adamites And The Antediluvian World - The World That Then Was (Paperback)
Zen Garcia
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Secrets of Daniel - Holy Book of Mysteries (Paperback): Steve Preston Secrets of Daniel - Holy Book of Mysteries (Paperback)
Steve Preston
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sacrifice on the Cross in the Named of White Supremacy and Greed (Paperback): Rufus O Jimerson Sacrifice on the Cross in the Named of White Supremacy and Greed (Paperback)
Rufus O Jimerson
R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Paperback): Andrew Lang The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Paperback)
Andrew Lang
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Liber Deorum - The Book of the GODS (Paperback): Rain Draken Liber Deorum - The Book of the GODS (Paperback)
Rain Draken
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing - Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality... Aztec Religion and Art of Writing - Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality (Paperback)
Isabel Laack
R2,080 Discovery Miles 20 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Winner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of "sacred scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. "This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system." - David Carrasco, Harvard University

Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Paperback): David Frankfurter Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Paperback)
David Frankfurter
R3,022 Discovery Miles 30 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term "magic" and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic seeks to advance the discussion by separating out three topics essential to the very idea of magic. The three major sections of this volume address (1) indigenous terminologies for ambiguous or illicit ritual in antiquity; (2) the ancient texts, manuals, and artifacts commonly designated "magical" or used to represent ancient magic; and (3) a series of contexts, from the written word to materiality itself, to which the term "magic" might usefully pertain. The individual essays in this volume cover most of Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity, with essays by both established and emergent scholars of ancient religions. In a burgeoning field of "magic studies" trying both to preserve and to justify critically the category itself, this volume brings new clarity and provocative insights. This will be an indispensable resource to all interested in magic in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity and Judaism, Egypt through the Christian period, and also comparative and critical theory. Contributors are: Magali Bailliot, Gideon Bohak, Veronique Dasen, Albert de Jong, Jacco Dieleman, Esther Eidinow, David Frankfurter, Fritz Graf, Yuval Harari, Naomi Janowitz, Sarah Iles Johnston, Roy D. Kotansky, Arpad M. Nagy, Daniel Schwemer, Joseph E. Sanzo, Jacques van der Vliet, Andrew Wilburn.

Mithraism Deliverance and Deprogramming (Paperback): Kay Elise Tolman Mithraism Deliverance and Deprogramming (Paperback)
Kay Elise Tolman
R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ugaritic Texts - Ba'al Cycle (Paperback): Scriptural Research Institute Ugaritic Texts - Ba'al Cycle (Paperback)
Scriptural Research Institute
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
44 Seeds to sow in the gardens of your mind - 44 Seeds is a interpretation of my religion that reawakes life after a dark cold... 44 Seeds to sow in the gardens of your mind - 44 Seeds is a interpretation of my religion that reawakes life after a dark cold winter (Paperback)
Barry Wyatt (Cs)
R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Anunnaki BIble - The Cuneiform Scriptures (New Standard Zuist Edition - Pocket Version) (Paperback, Pocket ed.): Joshua Free Anunnaki BIble - The Cuneiform Scriptures (New Standard Zuist Edition - Pocket Version) (Paperback, Pocket ed.)
Joshua Free
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The New Pagan Handbook - Revised 2017 Edition (Paperback): Pat Regan The New Pagan Handbook - Revised 2017 Edition (Paperback)
Pat Regan
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Orishas Of The Yoruba An Adult Coloring Book - The Yoruba Religion Orisas Black African Gods And Goddesses (Paperback):... The Orishas Of The Yoruba An Adult Coloring Book - The Yoruba Religion Orisas Black African Gods And Goddesses (Paperback)
Akin Oyetola, Sandra McDyess
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Conjurings (Paperback): R L Shadrick Conjurings (Paperback)
R L Shadrick
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The End of History and the Last King - Achaemenid Ideology and Community Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah (Hardcover): David Janzen The End of History and the Last King - Achaemenid Ideology and Community Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah (Hardcover)
David Janzen
R2,996 Discovery Miles 29 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction. In the book, David Janzen reads Ezra-Nehemiah in dialogue with the Achaemenids' Old Persian inscriptions, as well as with other media the dynasty used, such as reliefs, seals, coins, architecture, and imperial parks. In addition, he discusses the cultural and religious background of Achaemenid thought, especially its intersections with Zoroastrian beliefs. Ezra-Nehemiah, Janzen argues, accepts Achaemenid claims for the necessity and beneficence of their hegemony. The result is that Ezra-Nehemiah, like the imperial ideology it mimics, claims that divine and royal wills are entirely aligned. Ezra-Nehemiah reflects the Achaemenid assertion that the peoples they have colonized are incapable of living in peace and happiness without the Persian rule that God established to benefit humanity, and that the dynasty rewards the peoples who do what they desire, since that reflects divine desire. The final chapter of the book argues that Ezra-Nehemiah was produced by an elite group within the Persian-period temple assembly, and shows that Ezra-Nehemiah's pro-Achaemenid worldview was not widely accepted within that community.

Divine Images - The Gods of Hellas (Paperback): Jeffrey S Kupperman Divine Images - The Gods of Hellas (Paperback)
Jeffrey S Kupperman
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Third Eye - Proven Techniques to Increase Intuition and Psychic Awareness, Forgotten History of the Third Eye in the Ancient... Third Eye - Proven Techniques to Increase Intuition and Psychic Awareness, Forgotten History of the Third Eye in the Ancient Americas (Paperback)
Valerie W Holt
R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dance of the Deities - Searching for Our Once and Future Egalitarian Society (Paperback): Patricia McBroom Dance of the Deities - Searching for Our Once and Future Egalitarian Society (Paperback)
Patricia McBroom
R322 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R21 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Abracadabra - The ABC Manual of Witchcraft, Spellcasting and Formulas (Paperback): Aniel Greco Abracadabra - The ABC Manual of Witchcraft, Spellcasting and Formulas (Paperback)
Aniel Greco
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Paperback): Andrew Lang The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Paperback)
Andrew Lang
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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