Incantation

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316022620

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Incantation by Alice Hoffman Pdf

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth century. Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. Winner of numerous "best book" citations and infused with the rich context of history and faith, Incantation is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance that Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry described as "Magical and spellbinding...Painful and exquisitely beautiful."

Author : James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004411838

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Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections by James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern Pdf

This volume presents new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) incantation bowl texts in the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena based on high-resolution photographs, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining bowls.

Author : Marco Moriggi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004272798

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A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls by Marco Moriggi Pdf

In A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls, Marco Moriggi assembles and reedits forty-nine previously published Syriac incantation bowls, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and glossaries, as well as an analysis of the scripts with accompanying script charts.

Author : Lawrence Schiffmann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850752850

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Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah by Lawrence Schiffmann Pdf

In this volume, the authors assemble a group of Jewish incantation texts which were copied in the Middle Ages and preserved in the Cairo Genizah. Most of these texts, now in Cambridge University Library, are published here for the first time. All the texts are translated and provided with detailed philological and historical commentary, tracing the praxis and beliefs of the Jewish magical tradition of Late Antiquity. Their relation to Jewish legal and mystical teachings is also explored.

Author : Gregorio del Olmo Lete
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614514923

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Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit by Gregorio del Olmo Lete Pdf

Ugaritic literary and ritual studies have often neglected or even ignored the Akkadian material from the same archives, which can be used as a frame of reference for the Ugaritic texts. The aim of this work is to offer a comprehensive study of the consonantal (Ugaritic) as well as the syllabic (Akkadian) incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ras Shamra as a unified corpus. These texts, dealing with impending dangers (mainly snakebites) and witchcraft attacks, are placed in the context of Ancient Near Eastern magic literature. A discussion of general topics, including magic and religion, the Ugaritic gods of magic, and the definition of incantation, is followed by a new collation and translation of the Akkadian texts, as well as new photographic material for both series. The main focus of this book is the close reading of the consonantal texts in the context of the much larger and better analyzed corpus of Akkadian magic literature.

Author : Elizabeth Pepper
Publisher : The Witches' Almanac, Ltd.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1881098214

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Magic Spells and Incantations by Elizabeth Pepper Pdf

A must for anyone intrigued by enchantment, this book explores spells and incantations from ancient Egypt to the present.

Author : Denise Iwaniw-Francisco
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780988685178

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Prayers and Incantations to the Light - Blessings from the Mother Temple Within Publishing Paperback by Denise Iwaniw-Francisco Pdf

A beautiful, 190 page book filled with prayers, divine incantations, and exquisite graphics by artist, David Fix. Also included are personal journal entries & travel photos as well sacred ceremonies for daily life and life passages. Prayers and incantations, when delivered with integrity through a loving heart, and with the greatest and highest good of all in mind, brings about miracles and wonders both great and small. In concert with the Universe and every living thing, loving prayers and incantations bring us that much closer to our understanding of, and our relationship with the Light of the Mother, which is found in all living things. May the prayers and incantations within this volume supply nourishment for your soul.

Author : J. J. A. van Dijk,Markham J. Geller,Joachim Oelsner
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian
ISBN : 3447047070

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Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena by J. J. A. van Dijk,Markham J. Geller,Joachim Oelsner Pdf

This volume presents transcriptions, translations with a full commentary of 23 Ur III incantations from Nippur now held in a collection in Jena. Geller here completes work begun by the late van Dijk in editing the tablets which were composed to combat the work of demons.

Author : R. Campbell Thompson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781447482642

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The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, Being Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations Against the Demons, Ghouls, Vampires, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, and Kindred Evil Spirits, Which Attack Mankind. Volume I by R. Campbell Thompson Pdf

Volume I of “The Devils And Evil Spirits Of Babylonia”, a 1903 work by Reginald C. Thompson that looks at the religion and spiritual beliefs of Babylon, the powerful kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia that existed from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. It includes English translations of various 'Evil Spirit Texts', which form large and important sections of the native literature concerning Babylonian and Assyrian demonology. Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876 – 1941) was a British archaeologist, cuneiformist, and assyriologist. He is famous for his work on excavations at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo and Carchemish. Other notable works by this author include: “The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia” (1903–1904), “Semitic Magic: its Origins and Development” (1908), and “Archaeologia, Vol LXX” (1921). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Kate Braverman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609800079

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Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman Pdf

"I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body and spirit with a stark pride, transcending all limitations, wrapping her senses around the places, events, and conversations in her past. Frida K. interacts from her hospital bed with her mother, sister, Diego, and her nurse. She calls herself a "water woman," navigating into unexplored dimensions of her world, leading us through the alleys of San Francisco’s Chinatown, of Paris in 1939 (where she rubbed shoulders with André Breton), and of her neighborhood in Mexico City, Coyoacan. Her voyage is an inward one, an incantation before dying. In The Incantation of Frida K., Braverman’s language dances and spins. She carves out a bold interpretation of the life of an artist to whom she is vitally connected.

Author : Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671835432

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The Last Incantation by Clark Ashton Smith Pdf

Stories tell of a powerful magician, the lost continent of Atlantis, an invasion from Mars, a drug that allows perception of the future, and an expedition to Martian ruins

Author : Peter G. Stone,Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781843833840

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The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq by Peter G. Stone,Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly Pdf

Discussion of the issues surrounding the destruction of cultural property in times of conflict has become a key issue for debate around the world. This book provides an historical statement as of 1st March 2006 concerning the destruction of the cultural heritage in Iraq. In a series of chapters it outlines the personal stories of a number of individuals who were - and in most cases continue to be - involved. These individuals are involved at all levels, and come from various points along the political spectrum, giving a rounded and balanced perspective so easily lost in single authored reports. It also provides the first views written by Iraqis on the situation of archaeology in Iraq under Saddam and an overview and contextualisation of the issues surrounding the looting, theft and destruction of the archaeological sites, the Iraqi National museum and the libraries in Baghdad since the war was launched in 2003. Beyond this, it examines our attitudes towards the preservation of cultural and heritage resources and, in particular, the growing political awareness of their importance. Although related to a single conflict, taking place at a specific time in history, the relevance of this work goes far beyond these self-imposed boundaries. PETER STONE is Professor of Heritage Studies and Head of School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University; JOANNE FARCHAKH BAJJALY is a Lebanese archaeologist and Middle East correspondent for the French magazine Archéologia.

Author : R. Campbell Thompson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781447483199

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The Devils And Evil Spirits Of Babylonia, Being Babylonian And Assyrian Incantations Against The Demons, Ghouls, Vampires, Hobgoblins, Ghosts, And Kindred Evil Spirits, Which Attack Mankind. Volume II by R. Campbell Thompson Pdf

Volume II of “The Devils And Evil Spirits Of Babylonia”, a 1903 work by Reginald C. Thompson that looks at the religion and spiritual beliefs of Babylon, the powerful kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia that existed from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. It includes English translations of various 'Evil Spirit Texts', which form large and important sections of the native literature concerning Babylonian and Assyrian demonology. Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876 – 1941) was a British archaeologist, cuneiformist, and Assyriologist. He is famous for his work on excavations at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo and Carchemish. Other notable works by this author include: “The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia” (1903–1904), “Semitic Magic: its Origins and Development” (1908), and “Archaeologia, Vol LXX” (1921). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Alexander Carmichael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555081494

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Carmina Gadelica, hymns and incantations, collected and tr. by A. Carmichael by Alexander Carmichael Pdf

Author : Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:B3012522

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Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) Pdf