Gate Of Aesir Book 1 2 Compilation

Author : Joseph Santiago
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329545700

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Gate of Aesir – Book 1-2 Compilation by Joseph Santiago Pdf

The Casino in Connecticut is the capital building for those of us in the Great Game who live in New England. My friend Matt is a professional gambler who thought he discovered a game full of high rollers to crash, but it wasn't that simple. Since friends invite their friends along when they do stupid things I came along for the ride. What we discovered is that there are people betting on what utter strangers will do next. These Architects of behavior have the money and power to do more than make you disappear. For centuries, the Architects have moved people like puppets, and encouraged players to become monsters with no law constraining us, but their own. What we share here is our journey into a world where anything is possible, and you will be amazed at how simple this all seems. Based on a true story, and it will have you doubting what you know. Everyone questions if someone has already been pulling their strings. Even the paranoid are right sometimes...

Author : Anders Hultgård,Emeritus Professor in History of Religions Anders Hultg@ard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192867254

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The End of the World in Scandinavian Mythology by Anders Hultgård,Emeritus Professor in History of Religions Anders Hultg@ard Pdf

"A myth about the end of the world, the Ragnarok, was told among Viking Age Scandinavians. It is here reconsidered against a comparative background. The signs of the end, the final battle, the destruction and renewal of the world are the main themes distinguished. The myth was handed down in a Christian medieval context and the problem of Christian influence is thoroughly discussed. Particular attention is given to the Old Norse homilies as instruments of conveying Christian teachings to both the elites and the common people. The comparative framework is set up by traditions on the end of the world in early Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Graeco-Roman world, Celtic Europe as well as ancient Iran and India. The geographical area covered by these traditions formed a network of cultural contacts providing possibilities of various influences. These texts are studied in their own right to avoid superficial paralleling. The analogies with Iranian traditions are striking and include the idea of the cosmic tree, the role of number 'nine', and the myth of the heavenly warriors"--

Author : Katie Gerrard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1905297521

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Seidr - the Gate Is Open by Katie Gerrard Pdf

Seidr is the intriguing and powerful early Norse system of shamanistic trance practices. In this book, Katie Gerrard has contributed major work on the practices of seidr and trance prophecy, providing a practical manual full of dynamic group rituals and techniques based on known Seidr practices.

Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429955195

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Blindsight by Peter Watts Pdf

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Lars Brownworth
Publisher : Crux Publishing Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909979116

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The Sea Wolves by Lars Brownworth Pdf

In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse ‘sea-wolves’ followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. But there is more to the Viking story than brute force. They were makers of law - the term itself comes from an Old Norse word - and they introduced a novel form of trial by jury to England. They were also sophisticated merchants and explorers who settled Iceland, founded Dublin, and established a trading network that stretched from Baghdad to the coast of North America. In The Sea Wolves, Lars Brownworth brings to life this extraordinary Norse world of epic poets, heroes, and travellers through the stories of the great Viking figures. Among others, Leif the Lucky who discovered a new world, Ragnar Lodbrok the scourge of France, Eric Bloodaxe who ruled in York, and the crafty Harald Hardrada illuminate the saga of the Viking age - a time which “has passed away, and grown dark under the cover of night”.

Author : Jacquelyn Faye
Publisher : Untold Press, LLC
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945893079

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A Tail of Woah by Jacquelyn Faye Pdf

As the daughter of an Inari Fox, celestial messenger to the gods, I should have been reverent, wise, and collected like my father. As the daughter of a kitsune queen, I should have been poised and delicate, with just a hint of playfulness to pay homage to the fox spirit within, just like my mother. Unfortunately, genetics can be unpredictable, and they ended up with a hot mess dipped in sarcasm, rolled in spunk, drizzled with sass, and sprinkled with pop-rocks.Hi! My name's Kaede, and I'm that mess.Life was a never-ending series of clubbing and drinking with my bodyguard, Hiroki. That was his official title, but he's more of a babysitter. He's a nogitsune, kind of like a kitsune, but more physically badass with a little less spiritual oomph. I have the hots for him, but he's afraid of losing important pieces of his anatomy if my parents catch him touching their daughter.I enjoyed my life, except for the hangovers and vomit. It was good. Until I decided to save a human from jumping off a building, just because he saw dead people. The supernatural community had one rule. Don't get caught. I ended up on the six-o'clock news and shipped off to boarding school to learn how to blend in better. Good times.The kicker is Aesir Academy is in Iceland. Know what's in Iceland? Ice, land, and ancient Norse gods. Some of which are sleeping. For a damn reason. Like wanting to destroy the world. Know what wakes them up? Celestial messengers. Know how to keep them from waking up? Kill the messenger.School should be about fitting in with the popular kids, not destroying the world and staying alive. At least I made some friends to help me save the world. Dogs love foxes. Especially hellhounds and werewolves...This trilogy is intended for mature audiences only. It contains graphic language, puns, and sexual situations. 18+ readers only! Harem members are added as the series progresses. Includes M/M themes. This is a medium burn reverse harem where the girl gets all the guys. Why Choose?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043251

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephan Grundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1941136079

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God in Flames, God in Fetters by Stephan Grundy Pdf

No figure in Norse mythology is as controversial as Loki. Contemporary Heathenry is divided over how to treat him. Is he a bringer of freedom and enlightenment, or an agent of destruction? Was he ever honored in the old days-and is it a valid Heathen practice to worship him now? Stephan Grundy brings all the resources of modern scholarship to bear on the controversy over Loki's place in modern Heathenry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Mythology, Norse
ISBN : UOM:39015035301608

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The Younger Edda, Also Called Snorre's Edda of the Prose Edda by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800647756

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The Poetic Edda by Edward Pettit Pdf

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr. Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition’s emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible. As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015030451184

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AB Bookman's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497604773

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Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison Pdf

Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—“fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling” (The New York Times). As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, “The Deathbird.” In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers in “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” an Edgar Award winner influenced by the real-life murder of Queens resident Kitty Genovese in 1964. In “Paingod,” the deity tasked with inflicting pain and suffering on every living being in the universe questions the purpose of its cruel existence. Deathbird Stories collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. A legendary author of speculative fiction whose best-known works include A Boy and His Dog and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—and whose major awards and nominations number in the dozens, Harlan Ellison strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition in modern society as ancient gods fade and new deities rise to appease the masses—gods of technology, drugs, gambling, materialism—that are as insubstantial as the beliefs of those who venerate them. In addition to his Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Edgar, and other awards, Ellison was called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post—and this collection makes it clear why he has earned such an extraordinary assortment of accolades. Stories include: “Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars” “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” “Along the Scenic Route” “On the Downhill Side” “O Ye of Little Faith” “Neon” “Basilisk” “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” “Corpse” “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin” “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer” “The Face of Helene Bournouw” “Bleeding Stones” “At the Mouse Circus” “The Place with No Name” “Paingod” “Ernest and the Machine God” “Rock God” “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W” “The Deathbird”

Author : Annie Keary,Eliza Keary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101013350440

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The Heroes of Asgard by Annie Keary,Eliza Keary Pdf

Author : Milton Bolzendahl
Publisher : Airleaf
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1600020801

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Crosses: Part 1 by Milton Bolzendahl Pdf

Chock-full of facts and here and there a dash of fiction to spice up the epic history of a German-Austrian-American family that spans three countries. The reader who enjoys history and philosophy will be feasted by the bits and morsels he discovers in this book. The unanswerable question of war verses Christianity looms large as brother faces brother during wars that span the globe. Extensive research was devoted to bring this work to fruition to satisfy the tastes of a discerning audience. Life?? A series of paradoxes, ironies, joys and sorrows, so enjoy the read and your pilgrimage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2062 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210120478

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