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Los Yoruba son una de las etnias subsaharianas del oeste africano con historia, cultura, creencias, lengua y mitos propios. Níger, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo y Benín, con casi treinta millones de personas yoruba que mantienen vivas sus creencias, son sus principales representantes, si bien hay mas seguidores en el corazon de Africa hasta llegar a Burundi, y, por supuesto, en buena parte de America como efecto de las colonias y el esclavismo.Existe una pataki (leyenda) yoruba que cuenta que el Orisha Olofin creo a los humanos blancos para que sirvieran de alimento a la humanidad de piel oscura en caso de extrema necesidad, y que solo tenian que tener paciencia para que los de piel blanca cayeran por ellos mismos en el caldero. Por lo tanto, no es que los blancos hayan esclavizado, engañado, saqueado y utilizado a los yoruba, sino que los yoruba han estado engordando a los de piel blanca en los ultimos milenios para que sean un guisado mas suculento.Usted tendra una opinion mas reforzada al respecto tras la lectura del presente libro.

"Bem-vindo ao universo visceral do Macaco Finalista, onde brutalidade, suspense e reflexões filosóficas se entrelaçam em um espetáculo de violência, sarcasmo e absurdo.Na floresta perturbadora do Mac

La Kumbha Mela es la más impresionante manifestación de la India milenaria y moderna.La Kumbha Mela es una peregrinación hindú que se realiza de forma periódica en cuatro ciudades de la India, todas ellas en la ribera de un rio sagrado. El objetivo de la peregrinacion es conseguir la liberacion o lo que es lo mismo, la inmortalidad a traves de la purificacion mediante el baño en las aguas de ese rio sagrado que para el hinduismo es una diosa. Esta peregrinacion es la mayor concentracion humana que se produce en el planeta. Las cifras oficiales de asistencia a la Mela del 2019 hablan de 150 millones de peregrinos. La Kumbha Mela tiene tambien una fuerte carga social y politica. Emperadores mogoles, autoridades coloniales britanicas y todos los lideres politicos de la India independiente han tratado de tener protagonismo en la Mela y, de alguna forma, controlarla. La Kumbha Mela es la mayor representacion de lo que es India con su tradicion, espiritualidad, tecnologia y modernidad.

O Mito Santificador de J. R. R. Tolkien: Interpretando a Terra Média é o livro que faltava para os curiosos e fanáticos pelo universo tolkiano, pois, em tempos em que a série Os Anéis de Poder reavivou o interesse mundial pelas obras do filologo e romancista sul-africano, se faz mais do que necessario um estudo suscinto e direto para explicar as simbologias, crenças e rastros biograficos de Tolkien que permeiam a Terra Media e seus habitantes.Bradley J. Birzer ja e conhecido nos estados Unidos por seus trabalhos no ramo da historia moderna, mas tambem por sua pesquisa aprofundada das obras de J.R.R. Tolkien. E, sabendo de antemo que o ambiente e dialogos dos personagens de O Senhor dos Aneis e O Hobbit so permeados de simbologias proprias e remisses historicas e biograficas especificas, o autor decidiu nos conduzir para as cavernas escondidas do universo de Tolkien, nos apresentando detidamente os jardins secretos da Terra Media tal como um guia turistico nos apresentaria. Um livro para quem esta iniciando sua jornada, saindo de sua toca hobbit no Condado, ou para aqueles que ja findaram sua misso em Mordor e, agora, voltam para casa admirando as caracteristicas do caminho que trilharam.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twains last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. Mark Twains work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joans page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, "Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France".De Conte is a fictionalized version of Joan of Arcs page Louis de Contes, and provides narrative unity to the story. He is presented as an individual who was with Joan during the three major phases of her life - as a youth in Domremy, as the commander of Charles army on military campaign, and as a defendant at the trial in Rouen. The book is presented as a translation by Alden of de Contes memoirs, written in his later years for the benefit of his descendants.

The Bustan Sadi - If among the twenty-two works with which Sadi enriched the literature of his country the Gulistan rank first in popularity, the Bustan (lit. "Garden") may justly claim equal precedence in point of interest and merit. No comprehensive translation of this important classical work has hitherto been placed before the reading public, but it cannot be doubted that the character of its contents is such as to fully justify the attempt now made to familiarize English readers with the entertaining anecdotes and devotional wisdom which the Sage of Shiraz embodied in his Palace of Wealth. This is the name which he applies to the Bustan in an introductory chapter, and it is.one which springs from something more than a poets fancy, for the ten doors, or chapters, with which the edifice is furnished lead into a garden that is indeed rich in the fruits of knowledge gained by a wide experience of life in many lands, and earnest thought.Born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1184, Sdi (pseudonym of Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif ibn Abdullah) is considered one of the major medieval Persian poets. He traveled widely, through regions of what is today Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq. Vignettes of gritty caravan and street scenes give life to his tales. In old age he returned to Shiraz, and composed his two best-known works, the poetic Bustan, or Orchard (in 1257), and the prose Gulistan, the Rose Garden (in 1258). He died in 1283 or possibly 1291.

Los hijos de la fortuna, Teágenes y Cariclea es uno de los dramas teatrales de Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Suele emplear en ellos auspicios y profecías iniciales que desvían la atención del público, con componentes mitologicos, rasgos deudores de la obra de Lope de Vega y centrados en temas clasicos de la epoca como la religion, el amor y el honor.

The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch - Thomas Bulfinch collected and interpreted the legends of the world for everyday people, so that those who lacked extensive schooling could still understand the mythological allusions that fill classic and contemporary literature.Bulfinchs Mythology began as three separate volumes in the 1850s and 60s. Bulfinch published "The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes" in 1855 and then moved on to publish two more collections: "The Age of Chivalry, or the Legends of King Arthur" in 1858; and "Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages" in 1863. When Bulfinch died in 1867, the three volumes were combined and retitled Bulfinchs Mythology and reprinted in 1881. It has remained one of the most trusted English-language interpretations of Greek and Roman mythology, Arthurian legend, and medieval romance ever since.

Parmenides Plato - This Plato is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Platos dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Platos immediate audience.

Andromache Euripides - Clinging to the altar of the sea-goddess Thetis for sanctuary, Andromache delivers the plays prologue, in which she mourns her misfortune (the destruction of Troy, the deaths of her husband Hector and their child Astyanax, and her enslavement to Neoptolemos) and her persecution at the hands of Neoptolemos new wife Hermione and her father Menelaus, King of Sparta. She reveals that Neoptolemos has left for the oracle at Delphi and that she has hidden the son she bore him (whose name is Molossos) for fear that Menelaus will try to kill him as well as her.

The Lost Princess of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum - This is the eleventh book in The Oz Series by L. Frank Baum. When Princess Ozma mysteriously disappears, four search parties are sent out, one for each of Ozs four countries. Most of the book covers Dorothy and the Wizards efforts to find her. Meanwhile, Cayke the Cookie Chef discovers that her magic dishpan (on which she bakes her famous cookies) has been stolen. Along with the Frogman, they leave their mountain in Winkie Country to find the pan.

O retrato da Antiguidade Clássica que a maioria das pessoas aprende na escola segue um padrão: pinceladas de misoginia ao mesmo tempo que omite as origens da resistência feminista. Muitas práticas no

Descubra a mitologia grega através dos olhos de duas crianças curiosas e criativas em "Mitologia grega pelo olhar das crianças", uma obra encantadora e educativa escrita por Chileno Gómez em parceria com seus filhos, Gustavo e Gabriel. A partir das perspectivas de uma criança de 11 e outra de 7 anos, o livro reimagina e interpreta as historias da mitologia grega de maneira acessivel e divertida. Com foco em conceitos basicos e narrativas menos conhecidas, esta obra no so desperta a curiosidade pelo tema como tambem incentiva o habito da leitura e a produço intelectual infantil. Ilustrado de forma nostalgica, e um livro que une aprendizado e diverso para leitores de todas as idades.

Histórias são sempre diferentes umas das outras devido ao espaço onde ocorrem e ao tempo em que acontecem. Além do espaço e do tempo, outro diferencial são os personagens que as compõem ou que se env

La mitología como nunca te la habían contado, a través de las voces de sus protagonistas.«Mi nombre es Gea, nací después de Caos y antes de Eros, el más bello de entre todos los dioses inmortales; en

Mitos y mitologías: una puerta de entrada a la cultura clásica¿Cuántos significados poseen los términos mito y mitología?¿Puede existir una sociedad sin mitos?¿Creían los griegos en sus dioses?¿Por q

Comparando entre sí los mitos, las leyendas y las historias sagradas de religiones animistas, politeístas y monoteístas de todo el mundo, el autor construye a base de ejemplos un árbol genealógico del posible origen y evolucion de las historias sagradas. Encuentra que todas estan relacionadas entre si, y que en su esencia se componen de unos pocos mitos teofanicos (sobre la aparicion del Creador) y cosmogonicos (sobre la creacion del mundo) con numerosas versiones cada uno, unas versiones mas antiguas y fantasticas que otras. Deduce que esos mitos tuvieron su origen en Africa, cuna de la humanidad, donde a la sazon se conservan hoy las versiones mas antiguas, y donde se habria contado la primera historia sagrada, que el autor llama protohistoria sagrada. Hace unos 60.000 años la humanidad salio de Africa y difundio por el mundo la protohistoria sagrada, que ha evolucionado desde entonces con ritmos distintos en los cinco continentes. Cree que ese relato ancestral habria sido la expresion del pensamiento mitico forjado, seguramente con el nacimiento de la especie humana, a partir de ideas muy elementales sobre el origen y destino del mundo y de la humanidad. Esas ideas existenciales, que subyacen hoy en todas las religiones, conforman lo que llama cosmovision mitica, es decir, la vision del mundo que ha tenido la humanidad desde su aparicion hasta la reciente irrupcion de la ciencia y el pensamiento cientifico. Apoyandose en ejemplos del culto en las mas diversas religiones, el autor concluye que la cosmovision mitica es la fuente de inspiracion de las religiones, incluyendo el culto, las fiestas, las ceremonias y los ritos y muchas tradiciones culturales.

Héroes mitológicos, objetos mágicos, fantasmas, muertos vivientes, vampiros, bandidos y piratas, milagros, extraterrestres y amantes más allá de la muerte… Leyendas y medias verdades con que la autor

The Argonautica Apollonius - The Argonautica is the best known work by the 3rd Century BCE Hellenistic poet and scholar, Apollonius Rhodius (Apollonius of Rhodes). It is an epic poem in the style of Homer, and tells the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. But it is Greek epic poetry updated for the tastes of a more discerning and rational Hellenistic audience. Little regarded in ancient times, it has since come to be recognised for its own intrinsic merit, and for its influence on later Latin poets."The Argonautica" has impacted our culture from the Aeneid to Star Trek. The Golden Fleece has become a byword for an unobtainable object. And who can forget Ray Harryhausens classic stop motion animation in the 1963 film "Jason and the Argonauts"?

The Quest series from Luath Press continues with the quest for all things Celtic, an investigation into aspects of Celtic history that have previously been neglected or lost. The authors argue strongly that the evidence they have uncovered within folklore, legends, the guilds, and the oral traditions of secret societies in Scotland, link together with striking similarities. They further suggest that these links are not coincidence but the last visible threads of belief systems that have been at the center of the Scottish psyche for centuries. The Celtic Key makes sense of the underlying beliefs that have contributed to, motivated, and shaped a nation through the ages. REVIEWS A fascinating journey through the mystery and magic of Scotlands past...the authors describe the people, places and traditions -- Watkins Review, London, Winter 2002, Issue no. 4A refreshing look at Scotlands past...we are presented with such a wealth of information; well worth reading -- Dalriada, journal of Celtic heritage, Scotland, 2003A spellbinding step into the...world of ancient Caledonia and the people who laid the foundations of Scotland -- West Lothian Courier newspaper, 27 June 2002An enthralling and informative journey through time which deserves a place on every Scottish bookshelf...their sources are well documented -- Scots magazine, Vol 158 No.2, 2003Without resorting to colourful conjecture...it nevertheless adds its own voice to the enduring mysteries of Scotlands Celtic heritage -- Historic Scotland magazine, Winter 2002-3 issue