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O mito de Jasão e os Argonautas ocupa um lugar muito importante na mitologia grega. Ele relata a expedição heróica que cruzou pela primeira vez mares e terras desconhecidas repletas de perigo, em bus

Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, one of Irelands leading folklorists, gives a lively and informative account of the widespread folk beliefs of Ireland in Irish Superstitions, this popular guide to Irish superstitions, old wives tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside.Irish Superstitions includes a list of good-luck charms, spells, soothsayings and other irrational but charming and creative folk beliefs. There are stories of leprechauns and sprites, ghosts, the evil eye and wise womens curses. There are also charms and spells to make crops grow, to keep cattle healthy, to ensure safe childbirth, and to fulfil many other longed-for desires. Most of the superstitions are of pagan origin; many were overlaid with popular Christian belief.Irish Superstitions: Table of ContentsForeword The Mind Engaged- Man the Summation of All Things- The World Around Us- Ourselves and the Others- Rules and Practices of Life

¿Siempre has tenido curiosidad por los animales o criaturas desconocidas?¿Te atraen los misterios de la naturaleza? ¿Sabías que existe toda una pseudociencia dedicada a comprobar su existencia? Entonces sigue leyendoY en mis sueñoscabalgo en un unicornio blanco, te busco en valles, lagos, prados, miro a las estrellas y alla estas, sonriendo, bellos sueños, con seres mitologicos que inundan mis noches. - AnonimoLas historias que dan vida a estas criaturas vienen desde la mitologia hasta el folclor y culturas de diversos lugares, e incluso existe una corriente cientifica que busca comprobar la existencia de estos seres ocultos influenciada por los procesos de caza de fantasmas y busqueda de extraterrestres.Este libro es para toda persona aficionada a los misterios o quien quiera comenzar sus estudios criptozoologicos. Y si no, te aseguro que has escuchado de criaturas como Pie Grande o el Monstruo del Lago Ness. Las historias de algunas de estas criaturas tuvieron un cierre hace muchos años ¿como es posible que su misterio continue vigente en la actualidad? Sin importar el resultado en la epoca actual, estos misteriosos animales marcaron el folclor humano y la curiosidad por lo inimaginable de manera estrepitosa, y sus historias se siguen transmitiendo de generacion en generacion. En este libro, descubriras Descubre las criaturas mas extrañas, sus caracteristicas e historias mas comunes. Nuevos criptidos por conocer. Maravillosas historias sobre los avistamientos descritos. Conoce mas a fondo las historias de las criaturas mas famosas en el mundo. Y mucho mas Los procesos evolutivos y las razones de creacion del universo son temas que aun tienen mucho por ser descubierto.Por supuesto que los avistamientos de estas criaturas han sido constantemente reafirmados a lo largo de la historia, sin embargo, las pruebas sobre su existencia no han sido contundentes.Los criptidos existen porque la gente cree en ellos o los niegan.Son fenomenos culturales que componen el folclor de muchas regiones y que le dan explicacion a aquellos miedos inconscientes o sucesos inexplicables, que atrapan la mente de aquellos que buscan respuestas y hacen crecer a las historias.¿Estas listo para descubrir todo un mundo mas alla de lo conocido y lo probable? ¡No esperes mas! ¡Desplaza hacia arriba y agrega al carrito!

El Chilam Balam de Chumayel (o el libro del adivino de las cosas ocultas) es una colección de libros escritos en lengua maya, por personajes anónimos, durante los siglos XVI y XVII, en la península de Yucatan.Los libros del Chilam Balam relatan hechos y circunstancias historicas de la civilizacion maya antes de la conquista española.Durante la epoca colonial, los misioneros catolicos españoles destruyeron la mayor parte de los escritos de la religion maya, al considerar que tales memorias eran nocivas para la catequizacion de los mayas.Los mayas escribieron los libros del Chilam Balam despues de la conquista, presuntamente por el interes de los colonizadores, por lo que en su redaccion se nota ya la influencia de la cultura española, sobre todo en materia religiosa.Estos libros contienen textos de diferentes epocas y estilos, con un contenido religioso profetico, medico e historico, principalmente cronologico. Su nombre deriva del de un sacerdote, Chilam Balam.Estos textos, traducidos por Antonio Mediz Bolio, pretendieron contener los secretos de los mayas y son una fuente importante para el conocimiento de la religion, historia, folklore, medicina, y astronomia de dicha cultura.Se supone que hubo mas libros en la coleccion de Chilam Balam (que se denominaron con los nombres de los pueblos en que los escribieron), pero solo unos pocos sobrevivieron hasta hoy.Los libros mas importantes del Chilam Balam son los siguientes: Mani Tizimin Chumayel Kaua Ixil Tusik Codice Perez El Chilam Balam de Chumayel, es quiza el mas importante de todos.Balam es el nombre mas famoso de los chilames que vinieron antes de la venida de los europeos al continente. Es un nombre de familia pero significa brujo o mago. Asimismo Chilam o Chilan es el titulo que se daba a los oraculos que interpretaban los libros y la voluntad de los Dioses.Tambien Chilam significa el que es boca y Balam es, a su vez, Jaguar. Por lo que Chilam Balam se puede traducir como Jaguar acostado en alusion a un Dios maya encarnado en este felino.

Desde tiempo inmemorial los mitos y leyendas de los pueblos han constituido un patrimonio cultural de un valor incalculable. Son parte de la historia y la impronta de las distintas etnias y países. Este libro pretende rescatar las leyendas y cuentos que hasta hace unas pocas decadas aun podian escucharse en pueblos y villas de las zonas rurales de nuestro pais. ¿Sabia que en nuestro pais tambien existian relatos sobre una antigua raza de gigantes? ¿Conocia usted la historia del Herensuge, el dragon de siete cabezas? ¿Sabe usted como desencantar un hada? ¿Quiere ganarse el favor de la diosa Mari y descubrir junto a ella los secretos de la madre naturaleza? ¿Sabe como derrotar a un hombre lobo? ¿Y convertirse en uno? Estos solo son algunos de los secretos que encontrara en este volumen.

If you want to learn more about Greek Mythology, what books should you read?Written specially for a younger audience, this work presents, in a very succinct and simple way, 23 books from the Antiquity which are particularly important for all of those who want to learn more about Greek and Latin Mythology through its original textual sources.

Antes do Rei Arthur, antes de Camelot, antes de Excalibur havia Merlin, pastor de porcos. Um jovem com um passado comum que nunca ouviu falar de magia.Merlin segue sua vida de trabalho duro e pouco conforto ate que sua fazenda e atacada por monstros furiosos. Apenas Hector, o ladro local, acredita nele, mas quando os ataques aumentam, cabe a esses dois parias, a tarefa de salvar sua aldeia.

A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories Beatrix Potter - This is Beatrix Potter true English Classic for children All of the stories have a subtle educative moral. Disobedient children are punished in some books but this does not mean they are dark stories. Infact her stories are so light the children can not get oppressed. All the characters are full of life, love and portray great imaginative fun.

These observances once represented the spiritual life of Greece, and were considered for two thousand years and more the appointed means for regeneration through an interior union with the Divine Essence. However absurd, or even offensive they may seem to us, we should therefore hesitate long before we venture to lay desecrating hands on what others have esteemed holy. We can learn a valuable lesson in this regard from the Grecian and Roman writers, who had learned to treat the popular religious rites with mirth, but always considered the Eleusinian Mysteries with the deepest reverence.It is ignorance which leads to profanation. Men ridicule what they do not properly understand. Alcibiades was drunk when he ventured to touch what his countrymen deemed sacred. The undercurrent of this world is set toward one goal; and inside of human credulitycall it human weakness, if you pleaseis a power almost infinite, a holy faith capable of apprehending the supremest truths of all Existence. The veriest dreams of life, pertaining as they do to "the minor mystery of death," have in them more than external fact can reach or explain; and Myth, however much she is proved to be a child of Earth, is also received among men as the child of Heaven. The Cinder-Wench of the ashes will become the Cinderella of the Palace, and be wedded to the Kings Son.

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.It was from the north they came; and in the place they came from they had four cities, where they fought their battle for learning: great Falias, and shining Gorias, and Finias, and rich Murias that lay to the south. And in those cities they had four wise men to teach their young men skill and knowledge and perfect wisdom: Senias in Murias; and Arias, the fair-haired poet, in Finias; and Urias of the noble nature in Gorias; and Morias in Falias itself. And they brought from those four cities their four treasures: a Stone of Virtue from Falias, that was called the Lia Fail, the Stone of Destiny; and from Gorias they brought a Sword; and from Finias a Spear of Victory; and from Murias the fourth treasure, the Cauldron that no company ever went away from unsatisfied.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

Una magnífica recreación literaria de los más grandes mitos mesoamericanos, que ofrece como una sola historia los fragmentos dispersos de una cosmogonía hoy perdida.Serpiente emplumada, corazón del cielo sigue la historia del mundo desde sus origenes en los sueños del dios dual Ometeotl hasta la llegada de los conquistadores españoles a Mexico y la caida de la gran ciudad de Tenochtitlan. A traves de esta narracion conocemos sobre los Gemelos Creadores, Quetzalcoatl y Tezcatlipoca, y como construyeron el mundo sobre el lomo de un lagarto gigante; sobre los nahuales que pueden cambiar de forma y los aluxes que protegen las selvas y los bosques; sobre Erendira, la princesa purepecha que resistio los embates de los conquistadores extranjeros, y sobre otros personajes y sucesos clave de la mitologia y la historiografia mesoamericanas.De este modo, David Bowles reconstruye en este libro un universo mitologico heterogeneo y fragmentario con el fin de ofrecer a los lectores un relato unificado que pueda ayudarnos a entender la manera en que los pueblos mesoamericanos concebian el mundo y a la humanidad dentro de el. Serpiente emplumada, corazon del cielo resulta asi no solo una obra de narrativa sublime, sino un excelente texto de referencia para todas aquellas personas interesadas en el legado cultural de estos pueblos.Serpiente emplumada, corazon del cielo de Bowles sera crucial para los estudios literarios y culturales mesoamericanos [] Academicos y lectores de mitologia y folclore: agreguen esto a los clasicos -World Literature Todaymitos mexicanos; mitologia; ometeotl; quetzalcoatl; tezcatlipoca; mitos mayas; mitos prehispanicos; mexico precolombino; cosmogonia; serpiente emplumada; corazon oscuro del cielo; quinto sol; juego de pelota ; popol vuh; huhnapu; ixbalanque; tecuciztecatl; nanahuatzin; tlaloc; xipe totec; ixchel; xochiquetzal; xolotl; dioses mexicas; cipactli; mictlan; origen del hombre; huitzilopochtli; toltecas; mayas; mexicas; nahuas; uxmal; erendira; sac nicte; chichen itza; fundacion de tenochtitlan; conquista de mexico; encuentro de dos mundos; leyenda de los volcanes; tlacaelel; malinalli; malinche; presagios funestos; moctezuma y cortes; donaji; panteon mexica; dioses mesoamericanos; leyendas mexicanas; seres mitologicos; seres fantasticos; [Criticas/Reseñas]

Enrique Florescano narra la formación de los dioses en Mesoamérica, desde las cosmogonías más antiguas hasta los relatos, ritos y cantos de los pueblos indígenas de la actualidad.Cómo se hace un dios es una busqueda por comprender como fueron creados los dioses y como, a pesar de sus transformaciones constantes, las deidades principales conservaron sus identidades y funciones originales, asi como sus cultos y ritos a traves de los siglos.Tras la creacion del cosmos surgen dioses mas cercanos a los seres humanos, como el dios del maiz y el del viento. Este libro sigue las transformaciones de ambos, quienes se asemejan a los seres humanos en sus representaciones y llevan una vida cercana a la de ellos: nacen, se desarrollan, realizan hazañas memorables y a veces mueren. Solo el dios del maiz resucita en cada cosecha y se vuelve inmortal. Al morir, se transforma en semilla que viaja al inframundo, donde es sembrada y luego renace como planta portentosa que derrama los granos que alegran la vida de los seres humanos.El relato de los dioses del maiz y del viento es una pagina indeleble en la historia de Mesoamerica. Los dioses cambian, se multiplican, los antiguos cultos se conjugan con los nuevos y adquieren formas distintas en cada region. Sin embargo, las historias mas antiguas y los relatos de los sobrevivientes actuales de Mesoamerica tienen como actor principal a la planta del maiz transformada en dios, la planta que significa la recreacion imperecedera de la vida.

While traveling in Greece, Miss Burt found the children of the Primary Schools reading these stories in the lower grades, the book being one used next above the primer. The interest was enthusiastic, and she brought home a copy of the book, which she has now arranged as a second reading-book for our own schools. The rapidity of action in the stories of Herakles, Jason, and the other Heroes of the Myth, the prowess and courage and untiring endurance of the men, render the characters worthy subjects of thought to young mind , and have secured the stories a permanent place in educational literature.

Um bruxo amaldiçoado embarca em uma busca pelos ingredientes de um feitiço de resultado incerto. Em seu caminho, ele enfrenta criaturas escondidas em lugares esquecidos; sombras e guardies de coisas que ja existiram. Isso o forçara a enfrentar o passado que o persegue: um crime que no pode ser perdoado."Cria corvos e eles te arrancaro teus olhos" e uma historia de fantasia gotica: magia, bruxaria e seres mitologicos, desenhada em alto nivel e alimentada por sentimentos obscuros, que surpreende por sua capacidade simbolica e guardar resquicios para a esperança.

The Athenians have won their battle at Marathon. Now they await the Great Kings revenge as he works to assemble a massive army unlike any the world has ever seen. In Athens, a city seething with treachery and intrigue, Mandrocles and his friends live, love and observe-bystanders among politicians and factions fighting for power as the ultimate conflict draws near. The Wooden Walls follows Mandrocles and the greatest figures of ancient Greece as they come to terms with their threatened civilization and the date with destiny at Thermopylae. The fast-paced and meticulously researched sequel to Luck Bringer. "Fascinating and entertaining, makes the reader feel present at the events together with Mandrocles the Luck Bringer". Antonis Mistriotis, author of 507-450 B.C. The Years that Gave Birth to Democracy

Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch - This is the third and last part of Bulfinchs Mythology, the previous two being The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, and The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur. Chapters include: The Peers, Or Paladins; The Tournament; The Siege Of Albracca; Adventures Of Rinaldo And Orlando; The Invasion Of France; Bradamante And Rogero; Astolpho And The Enchantress; The Orc; Astolphos Adventures Continued, And Isabellas Begun; Medoro; Orlando Mad; Zerbino And Isabella; Astolpho In Abyssinia; The War In Africa; Rogero And Bradamante; The Battle Of Roncesvalles; Rinaldo And Bayard; Death Of Rinaldo; Huon Of Bordeaux; and, Ogier, The Dane.

God, the Invisible King H. G. Wells - This carefully crafted ebook: "God the Invisible King (The original unabridged edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reader for statements that may jar harshly against deeply rooted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defined objection to dogmas very widely revered. Table of contents: Preface Chapter I. The Cosmogony of Modern Religion Chapter II. Heresies; Or The Things That God Is Not Chapter III. The Likeness of God Chapter IV. The Religion of Atheists Chapter V. The Invisible King Chapter VI. Modern Ideas of Sin and Damnation Chapter VII. The Idea of a Church The Envoy Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells was now considered to be one of the worlds most important political thinkers and during the 1920s and 30s he was in great demand as a contributor to newspapers and journals.

English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs - Joseph Jacobs He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairy Tales in 1893.From the Preface:WHO says that English folk have no fairy tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist. A quarter of the tales in this volume have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870, it was said equally of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

Rudolf Koch fue una personalidad que influyó considerablemente en el desarrollo de las artes gráficas de la Alemania de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, adquiriendo gran fama como diseñador de tipos y caligrafos. Este libro contiene 493 simbolos, que fueron usados desde los tiempos remotos hasta la edad media, y fueron recogidos por Koch y por aquellos que trabajaron con el en la busqueda de inscripciones, grabados y manuscritos de tiempos pasados.