Valley Of The Sorcerers

Author : Kamal Abdulla
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631353437

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Valley of the Sorcerers by Kamal Abdulla Pdf

Kamal Abdulla is a well-known Azerbaijani writer and scholar. He has written works on linguistics, culturology and mythology, and is the author of poetry, essays, plays, stories, and novels. His prose has been published and translated into French, Turkish, Russian, English, Portuguese, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Georgian, Arabic, Lithuanian, Japanese, and other languages. His plays have been performed in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Estonia. His work is not without its detractors. Many articles and books have been written about his work, some positive, some negative. He has won literary awards in his own country, and been subject to unfair criticism. In the early years of Azerbaijan's independence, liking his novels was considered a sign of good literary taste. In later years, not liking these works is considered a sign of good literary taste. Original language, world view, philosophical foundation, and mythological sense characterize his work. His writing features mountains invisible to the eye, and valleys of sorcerers where it is forever spring. Here ancient manuscripts come to life and history is re-read in a completely different way. Centaurs roam his favourite city, Baku, while in ancient Egypt, people turn into flowers, and flowers into people. The idolized heroes of his mythological texts are fleshed out as ordinary, everyday people. Sometimes dead people emerge from their images, restore justice, and then return to their images. Not satisfied with living in their own worlds, characters lead very different lives in parallel worlds. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur enters our own time, and finally the phantasmagoria reaches such a point that Paris gives the apple to Hera, not Aphrodite...

Author : John R. Fultz
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316235495

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Seven Sorcerers by John R. Fultz Pdf

The stunning conclusion to the Books of the Shaper series that began with Seven Princes and Seven Kings... The Almighty Zyung drives his massive armies across the world to invade the Land of the Five Cities. So begins the final struggle between freedom and tyranny. The Southern Kings D'zan and Undutu lead a fleet of warships to meet Zyung's aerial armada. Vireon the Slayer and Tyro the Sword King lead Men and Giants to defend the free world. So begins the great slaughter of the age... lardu the Shaper and Sharadza Vodsdaughter must awaken the Old Breed to face Zyung's legion of sorcerers. So begins a desperate quest beyond the material world into strange realms of magic and mystery. Yet already it may be too late...

Author : Jim Gantz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401036898

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Sorcerer's World by Jim Gantz Pdf

Author : S.T. van Bemmelen,E. Touwen-Bouwsma,A. Niehof
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004487765

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Women and Mediation in Indonesia by S.T. van Bemmelen,E. Touwen-Bouwsma,A. Niehof Pdf

This volume is the product of an international workshop on Women and Mediation, organized in Leiden in 1988 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) and the Werkgroep Indonesische Vrouwenstudies (WIVS), a Dutch interdisciplinary study group on Indonesian women. The book contains a selection of fourteen contributions—sociological, anthropological, and historical—ranging geographically ‘from Sabang to Merauke’ from the Toba Batak (North Sumatra) to the Dani (Irian Jaya). Loosely centred around the concept of mediation, many of the articles include new data derived from archival research and fieldwork. One cluster of articles concentrates on theoretical questions concerning the concept of mediation. Another cluster deals with brokerage in the economic and social fields. A third cluster focuses on mediation in the cultural domain, which many extend to mediation between different ‘cultures’(elite-agrarian, Western-Indonesian) or between the human and the suprahuman world, between macrocosm and microcosm. Mediation by women has been overlooked not only in the social sciences in general but also in the field of women studies in particular. The present volume explores the theme of mediation by women in general, and in Indonesia in particular.

Author : Carter Brown
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781477207628

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Michael & the Sorcerer’s Password by Carter Brown Pdf

Excitement blossoms in Michael’s heart when he learns the opportunity has arisen to perfect his magic at Thorn Valley, where no one knows him. He goes without hesitation. Being a king’s son has its ups and downs. Fitting in is tough for Michael, the young wizard-prince. People either worship you or treat you with disdain, but Michael just wants to be one of the crowd. Meanwhile, mighty sorcerer James Barclay, Michael’s unknown uncle, who runs Thorn Valley surreptitiously seeks his demise, invoking his right to the throne of the kingdom of Livingstone, which he claims Michael’s father stole from him. With a false name and changed identity, he will use all the resources at his disposal to wrench the secret code of the king’s power out of Michael in a cold-blooded attempt to kill them both. Meanwhile, only Michael knows the secret code of his father’s powers and enjoys the protection of the almighty spirits of his kingdom. Michael’s adventures begin when he befriends thirteen-year-old Lee at Thorn Valley. As they inadvertently wander from town and into the mystical world around it, the pair face life-threatening, heart-pounding trials by sorcerers, wizards, and mystical beasts. Although Michael believes he is on a mission to perfect his magic, he is unsure why they are eager to kill him, unaware that Barclay is the mastermind behind it all. With the help of two beautiful young twins, Azashema and Joan, Michael manages to survive the initial attacks, but his epic journey has just begun.

Author : Margaret Jolly,Serge Tcherkézoff,Darrell Tryon
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921536298

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Oceanic Encounters by Margaret Jolly,Serge Tcherkézoff,Darrell Tryon Pdf

This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of `encounter¿ rather than the more common idea of `first contact¿ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of `strangers¿ or `others¿ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Magic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010228844

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Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, from the Most Authentic Sources by Thomas Wright Pdf

Author : Lidiya Foxglove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Sorcerer's Equal by Lidiya Foxglove Pdf

Following a fierce battle, Grau's life hangs in the balance. Velsa, Sorla, and Kessily seek healing and refuge in the land of Laionesse, only to learn that Grau's injuries may be beyond help - unless they can beg a favor from the great necromancer Dormongara, who lives alone in a castle on a mountain and is notoriously unkind to visitors. He demands a steep price indeed--a bride. Kessily reluctantly accepts his offer, but meeting the necromancer leads to unexpected consequences, bringing an old nemesis back into Velsa's life along with a notorious gang of bandits who see Grau as an intruder to be snuffed out. The Miralem land might not quite be the refuge they hoped for, but it might be a safe home for their found family anyway, as they make friends with a family of wyvern breeders, stand up for local Fanarlem, and even catch the attention of a kind prince--but it all might end in tragedy. Velsa and Grau's fate hangs in the balance in the final test of their love. Can a sorcerer and a doll girl finally find happiness anywhere in this world?

Author : Stuart A. Marks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351509732

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Large Mammals and a Brave People by Stuart A. Marks Pdf

The Valley Bisa people inhabit the Luangwa Valley in central Zambia. Among them, the hunter, who tracks such large game as the lion, elephant, and buffalo, commands great respect and esteem from the other members of the lineage who traditionally rely on him for their subsistence and protection. Although the social organization and technology of the Bisa people have undergone tremendous change in the last one hundred years, the role of hunter retains its social importance, and the legitimizing hunting rituals have their roots in local history. Drawing on data collected during his fieldwork among the Bisa continuing since the 1960s, Stuart Marks describes the changes that have occurred in hunting patterns, the sociological variables that govern an individual's decision to become a hunter, and the common cosmological convictions that hunters bring to their profession. Available for the first time in paperback, the new introduction and afterword to this edition reflect on methodological and ideological changes in the anthropological study of African peoples as well as updating the circumstances of the Bisa people since the book's first appearance in 1976. Through the interventions of the larger national society the Bisa have lost much of their land and access to important portions of their resources while experiencing repression in their struggles to maintain livelihoods with what local assets are left. Nevertheless, Marks notes that they face their hardships with tolerance, integrity, persistence, and humility. The general reader, as well as prehistorians and anthropologists concerned with human evolution and hunting societies, will find this volume useful. It will also be of interest to wildlife managers and ecologists.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Magic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014285860

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Narratives of Sorcery and Magic by Thomas Wright Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBCR:BC000055737

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Narratives of Sorcery and Magic from the Most Authentic Sources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Catherine Besteman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812290165

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Unraveling Somalia by Catherine Besteman Pdf

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In Unraveling Somalia, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence—inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners—contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization—a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language.

Author : Christopher Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1705482651

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Valley of the Ancients by Christopher Williams Pdf

The sorcerer, Dagan, leads the Guardians to discover more about the ancient Kelcer prophecy. Their goal is to try and unravel some of the contradictions of the prophecy. What they find is completely unexpected.Meanwhile, Flare travels to the Valley of the Ancients. A valley that has been linked to the Dragon Order. He's not sure of what he will find. He's not even sure if the valley even has any ties to the Order. Flare can not possibly know that an agent of the Church is tracking him. The agent has powers that Flare cannot possibly suspect.

Author : Gardner Dozois,Jack Dann
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625791528

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Sorcerers! by Gardner Dozois,Jack Dann Pdf

Thirteen spellbinding tales of magical masters of wizardry Tales of magic, illusion, mages, and dark wizards by such talents as Ursula K. LeGuin, Jack Vance, Theodore Sturgeon, Joe Haldeman, and others highlight a collection of fourteen stories about the world of sorcery _The Bleak ShoreÓ by Fritz Leiber _O Ugly Bird!Ó by Manly Wade Wellman _The Power of the PressÓ by Richard Kearns _The FingerÓ by Naomi Mitchison _The Word of UnbindingÓ by Ursula K. Le Guin _His Coat So GayÓ by Sterling E. Lanier _Narrow ValleyÓ by R. A. Lafferty _Sleep Well of NightsÓ by Avram Davidson _Armaja DasÓ by Joe Haldeman _My BoatÓ by Joanna Russ _The Hag SeleenÓ by Theodore Sturgeon and James H. Beard _The Last WizardÓ by Avram Davidson _The OverworldÓ by Jack Vance At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Jeremy D. Coltman,John M. D. Pohl
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607329541

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Sorcery in Mesoamerica by Jeremy D. Coltman,John M. D. Pohl Pdf

Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present. While the topic of sorcery and witchcraft in anthropology is well developed in other areas of the world, it has received little academic attention in Mexico and Central America until now. In each chapter, preeminent scholars of ritual and belief ask very different questions about what exactly sorcery is in Mesoamerica. Contributors consider linguistic and visual aspects of sorcery and witchcraft, such as the terminology in Aztec semantics and dictionaries of the Kaqchiquel and K’iche’ Maya. Others explore the practice of sorcery and witchcraft, including the incorporation by indigenous sorcerers in the Mexican highlands of European perspectives and practices into their belief system. Contributors also examine specific deities, entities, and phenomena, such as the pantheistic Nahua spirit entities called forth to assist healers and rain makers, the categorization of Classic Maya Wahy (“co-essence”) beings, the cult of the Aztec goddess Cihuacoatl, and the recurring relationship between female genitalia and the magical conjuring of a centipede throughout Mesoamerica. Placing the Mesoamerican people in a human context—as engaged in a rational and logical system of behavior—Sorcery inMesoamerica is the first comprehensive study of the subject and an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Mesoamerican culture and religion. Contributors: Lilián González Chévez, John F. Chuchiak IV, Jeremy D. Coltman, Roberto Martínez González, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Cecelia F. Klein, Timothy J. Knab, John Monaghan, Jesper Nielsen, John M. D. Pohl, Alan R. Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein Sandstrom, David Stuart