Mytologi

"Approaches Hellenistic sport from the perspective of the athletes and horse owners and their sponsors. Analyzing victory poems as commissioned work, the book reveals the wider social and political impact of athletic achievements at the level of the polis, the region and the empire"--

In a bustling marketplace, an extraordinary encounter sets in motion a series of events that intertwines the fates of two individuals, defying expectations and leading to an indelible love story.

When Alfie's mother falls gravely ill, doctors say only a miracle can save her. Having only just moved to the seaside town of Tudllan, Alfie and his dad desperately search to find a cure. Almost at the point of giving up hope, Alfie hears of a local legend about a sacred cup, mentioned in an ancient book, the Book of Tudllan.

What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits?When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new, from guards of formidable build to respected curators, brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters.It became clear that the source of the disturbances was related to the Museum's contents - unquiet objects, holy plunder, and restless human remains protesting their enforced stay within the colonial collection's cases, cabinets and deep underground vaults. Be it wraiths associated with genocides, uprooted sacred beings or the afterglow of deaths that occurred inside the museum itself, according to those who have worked there, the museum is heaving with profound spectral disorder.Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world's oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will.It now appears that the objects are fighting back.

From Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out, comes an anthology of brand new stories showcasing the best Black talent from across contemporary horror writing.

This book combines the traditional Slavic tale "We Three Brothers" by Karel Jaromír Erben with illustrative photographs and drawings by Jan Jedlicka. The story is just one of dozens collected and retold by Czech folklorist and poet Erben (1811-70) and is a cautionary tale of three young brothers, sons of a peasant who leave home to find their way in the world, only to meet a mysterious man with a limp who seals their unfortunate fates. Jedlicka visualizes the story in muted black-and-white images of a landscape of empty hills and rocky outcrops through which we imagine the brothers traveling. These he complements with more whimsical drawings of the characters of the tale: the brothers and their father, the limping man, a peddler and magistrate. The result is an unconventional modernization of a little-known tale, whose charm and moral still have an uncanny resonance today.Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch, Tschechisch

If Dr. Seuss, the Dalai Lama, and Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski walked into a bar...Here Come The Nothing Heads is what you might get.An epic poem for children of all ages, Here Come The Nothing Heads tells the tale of Sneezy McSneezerson, Grouchy McGroucherson, and Fluffy McFlufferson who live in the fanciest pumpkin high atop Pumpkin Ridge, but they are banished by town Elders because they can't get along with each other or anyone else.They must travel to Happy Hollow, home of the mysterious tribe of Nothing Heads, and learn how to live in peace. The trials and tribulations of their adventure force them to look at life in a brand new way that was as old as time itself.An intricate tapestry of spiritual, philosophical, and cultural concepts, Here Come The Nothing Heads weaves references and imagery from the Buddha, the Beatles, and the Breakfast Club just to name a few.Obla Di. Obla Da.

¡Aprenda todo sobre el paganismo nórdico y cómo incorporarlo a su vida!¿Siempre ha sentido curiosidad por la magia y el mundo de los antiguos dioses nórdicos?¿Se ha preguntado alguna vez qué secretos ancestrales esperan ser revelados en las runas?¿Desea saber más sobre los dioses nórdicos antiguos, que han sido objeto de interés por parte de eruditos, artistas, historiadores y el público en general?Si su respuesta es afirmativa, ¡este libro es para usted!Aprenda más sobre los dos panteones principales de dioses, los Æsir y los Vanir, y los Jötnar. Descubra cómo se creó el mundo nórdico y la fascinante historia de cada dios a través de fuentes arqueológicas y etimológicas.Este libro está dedicado a mostrarle cómo puede incorporar a su vida la belleza, el poder y los misterios del universo nórdico. Aprenderá las funciones de los dioses, el alfabeto rúnico que el universo reveló a Odín tras el sacrificio de su ojo, las oraciones a los dioses y cómo crear altares.En este libro, podrá:Introducirse en la mitología nórdica.Aprender todo sobre los Æsir y los Vanir.Comprender el papel que los Jötnar, los feroces gigantes, tenían en la sociedad nórdica.Aprender la historia del futhark, el alfabeto rúnico y cómo tirar las runas.Descubra las oraciones a los dioses que puede utilizar.Aprender sobre los festivales y fiestas que se celebraban en el mundo pagano nórdico.Aprender a hacer un altar a los dioses y a los ancestros.Encontrar prácticas diarias para incorporar a su vida.¡Y mucho más!

The Dead Doll - and other verses is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.