Road Gods

Author : Boris Mihailovic
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780733631825

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At the Altar of the Road Gods by Boris Mihailovic Pdf

Caution: Contains incidents of insane motorcycle antics, drug use and swearing. 'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABC His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politically incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of passage into manhood he'd been searching for. Now, nearly 40 years since he first rode a bike, the wisdom of age has provided the perspective for Boris to look back and realise some pretty wild shit went down. At the Altar of the Road Gods is about popping your motorcycle-buying cherry with an XJ650 Yamaha. It's about fines, feuds and fractures, high-sides, tank-slappers, angry police, even angrier young men, crashing, getting up, cranky girlfriends, riding faster, outlaws, and partaking in copious amounts of alcohol and drugs. It is about mateship and motorcycles. Ultimately, it is about four decades of two-wheel-related mayhem. Just don't tell Boris's mum! Be warned: may cause laughter, sleeplessness and the desire to buy a Lucifer-black Katana.

Author : W. G. Aston
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shinto, the Way of the Gods by W. G. Aston Pdf

Materials for the Study of Shinto; Personification; Deification of Men; Functions of Gods; Myth; The Mythical Narrative; Nature-Deities; Man-Deities; The Priesthood; Worship; Morals, Law, and Purity; Ceremonial; Magic, Divination, Inspiration; and, Decay of Shinto. As compared with the great religions of the world, Shinto, the old Kami cult of Japan, is decidedly rudimentary in its character. Its polytheism, the want of a Supreme Deity, the comparative absence of images and of a moral code, its feeble personifications and hesitating grasp of the conception of spirit, the practical non-recognition of a future state, and the general absence of a deep, earnest faith--all stamp it as perhaps the least developed of religions which have an adequate literary record. Still, it is not a primitive cult. It had an organized priesthood and an elaborate ritual. The general civilization of the Japanese when Shinto assumed the form in which we know it had left the primitive stage far behind. They were already an agricultural nation, a circumstance by which Shinto has been deeply influenced. They had a settled government, and possessed the arts of brewing, making pottery, building ships and bridges, and working in metals. It is not among such surroundings that we can expect to find a primitive form of religion. The present treatise has two objects. It is intended, primarily and chiefly, as a repertory of the more significant facts of Shinto for the use of scientific students of religion. It also comprises an outline theory of the origin and earlier stages of the development of religion, prepared with special reference to the Shinto evidence. The subject is treated from a positive, not from a negative or agnostic standpoint, Religion being regarded as a normal function, not [Pg vi]a disease, of humanity. This element of the work owes much to the continental scholars Réville, Goblet D'Alviella, and Pfleiderer. In anthropological matters, I have been much indebted to Dr. Tylor's 'Primitive Culture' and Mr. J. G. Frazer's 'Golden Bough.' I should not omit to express my obligations to my friend Mr. J. Troup for assistance with the proofs and for a number of useful corrections and suggestions.

Author : W.G. Aston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734079894

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Shinto by W.G. Aston Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Shinto by W.G. Aston

Author : sir John Bowring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555024206

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The Westminster review [afterw.] The London and Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster and foreign quarterly review [afterw.] The Westminster review [ed. by sir J. Bowring and other]. by sir John Bowring Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0069399715

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan E. Alcock,John Bodel,Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118244302

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Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World by Susan E. Alcock,John Bodel,Richard J. A. Talbert Pdf

Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations’ pathways. This international collection of readings providing a description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across pre-modern cultures. Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern cultures Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and recent work in network analysis Explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of various transportation networks around the globe Includes contributions from an international team of scholars with expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan, the Americas, North Africa, Europe, and the Near East Structured to encourage comparative thinking across case studies

Author : K.V. Johansen
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616145224

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Blackdog by K.V. Johansen Pdf

In a land where gods walk on the hills and goddesses rise from river, lake, and spring, the caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping the bloody conquest of a lakeside town, stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. The girl, though, is the incarnation of Attalissa, goddess of Lissavakail, and the dog a shape-changing guardian spirit whose origins have been forgotten. Possessed and nearly driven mad by the Blackdog, Holla-Sayan flees to the desert road, taking the powerless avatar with him. Necromancy, treachery, massacres, rebellions, and gods dead or lost or mad, follow hard on the their heels. But it is Attalissa herself who may be the Blackdog’s—and Holla-Sayan’s—doom.

Author : Royall Tyler
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307784063

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Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler Pdf

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan—tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese civilization. They ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished culture. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author : John Sexton,Thomas Oliphant,Peter J. Schwartz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101609736

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Baseball as a Road to God by John Sexton,Thomas Oliphant,Peter J. Schwartz Pdf

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.

Author : Kimberly Daniels
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629995298

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Breaking the Power of Familiar Spirits by Kimberly Daniels Pdf

Defeat the Unknown Enemy in Your Home This book will help you gain insight, and if needed, deliverance from familiar spirits, which if even entertained can cause havoc.

Author : Hampden C. DuBose
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781447484288

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The Dragon, Image, And Demon Or, The Three Religions Of China, Confucianism, Buddhism, And Taoism Giving An Account Of The Mythology, Idolatry, And Demonolatry Of The Chinese by Hampden C. DuBose Pdf

Originally published in 1887, this early work by American missionary Hampden Coit DuBose is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a wealth of information on the religions of China. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for those interested in Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and eastern mythology. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Hampden C. DuBose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UCBK:B000309397

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The Dragon, Image, and Demon by Hampden C. DuBose Pdf

Author : Bulent Akman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435730120

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Loitering Within Tents by Bulent Akman Pdf

A collection of 8 short stories in science fiction, horror and fantasy.

Author : Conyers Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : CHI:36938864

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Dr. Middleton's Letter from Rome by Conyers Middleton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596059979

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The Holy Kojiki -- Including, the Yengishiki by Anonim Pdf

Also known as the "Records of Ancient Matters," this is the "official" story of the Japanese peoples, first written down in the 8th century and documenting the creation of the world, the gods, and Japan. The oldest known document in the Japanese language, this is a vital text of the Shinto religion, a beautiful evocation of the mythology and traditions of ancient Japan.This edition also includes the Yengishiki, a compilation of Shinto rituals, including "The Harvest Ritual," "The Ritual for the Wind-Gods," "The Ritual for EvilSpirits," and others.