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Gary Varner
Gary Varner
The history of amulets, charms and talismans from prehistory into contemporary society.
Hecate The Witches Goddess
2008 •
Gary Varner
For the most part Hecate is seen today as the Goddess of Witches and Sorcery—but this wasn’t always so. Hecate was at one time both protectress of women and children and Goddess of Death. She was, in her trinity aspect, goddess of fertility and prosperity, Goddess of the Moon, and Queen of Ghosts, shades and the night. It is interesting that she was seen both as the goddess of fertility and life as well as death. “Hekate can poison as well as intoxicate,” wrote Nor Hall, “turn ecstasy into madness, and cause death where incubation—or a short journey—was intended.” This book will examine her many facets and bring about a truer sense of the primal goddess known as “The Distant One” and “The Nameless One.” One of her titles places these in a softer light, for she was also called “most lovely one.”
Water and Mythology: Water Deities and Creation
Damien Marie AtHope
“Primordial Sea, Cosmic ocean, Primordial Waters, or Celestial River is a mythological motif that represents the world or cosmos enveloped by a vast primordial ocean. Found in many cultures and civilizations, the cosmic ocean exists before the creation of the Earth. From the primordial waters the Earth and the entire cosmos arose. The cosmic ocean represents or embodies chaos. The concept of a watery chaos also underlies the widespread motif of the worldwide flood that took place in early times. The emergence of earth from water and the curbing of the global flood or underground waters are usually presented as a factor in cosmic ordering. In creation myths, it is common for the primordial ocean to be separated into upper and lower bounds of water (i.e. cosmic bodies of water located above the sky or below the earth) by the creation of a solid structure known as a firmament. Some cosmologies depict the world plain as being surrounded by a circular ocean-river, such as Oceanus in Greek cosmology or Raŋhā in Zoroastrian cosmology. The cosmic ocean is also present in the mythology of Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, Jews, Ancient Indians, Ancient Persians, Sumerians, and Zoroastrians. It plays a prominent role in ancient near eastern, biblical, and other cosmologies.”
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Hidden In Plain Sight: A Visitor's Guide to the Hidden Symbolism of Sacramento's Public Buildings
2012 •
Gary Varner
Sacramento. Capital of California and home to a half million people and hundreds of symbols and images from an ancient past. These are the same symbols that have been part of the framework of the human psyche for thousands of years. While contemporary man of the 21st century may think that they are simply decorative manifestations of a by-gone era, they represent so much more. They represent the fears, dreams, ideas, beliefs and struggles that humankind has endured since we began to walk upright. This book will survey many of the icons that still reside alongside modern man in Sacramento and will present them in a broader context both in the context of ancient history and folklore as well as a meaning that is suitable for our contemporary times.
Fabulous creatures, mythical monsters, and animal power symbols: a handbook
2007 •
C. Eason
A Short Story of the Long Relationship Between The Human Race and Geothermal Phenomena
2004 •
Mario-César Suárez Arriaga
From his darkest past, prehistoric man used volcanic rock, silex, obsidian, ignimbrites, flint and basalt to manufacture tools and weapons. Some of his descendants knew how to use lava extrusions to make homes with hard rock, cooking by steam at fumaroles or on naturally hot rocks and how to use thermal waters and mud in body hygiene, in curing wounds and in tempering arrows and lances for hunting and war. Washing and bathing from thermo-mineral springs, irrigation and therapeutic and recreational applications occurred at different times in diverse ancient cultures spread in all the continents. Bathing in geothermal waters was an essential part of life in many older, advanced civilizations. There is a long line of bathing cultures, starting with antique prototypes in the Old World of Greeks, Romans, Turks, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Jews, Arabs, Mesoamericans, Maoris, Koreans and Indonesians. Spas (Sales Per Aqua’s) or health through waters containing mineral components, were used ...
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and
Christy Kelly
Lake Baikal and Myths of Creation: Primordial waters, Supernatural Creatures of water, and the Mounds of creation
Damien Marie AtHope
People reached Lake Baikal Siberia around 25,000 years ago. They (to Damien) were likely Animistic Shamanists who were also heavily totemistic as well. Being animistic thinkers they likely viewed amazing things in nature as a part of or related to something supernatural/spiritual (not just natural as explained by science): spirit-filled, a sprit-being relates to or with it, it is a sprit-being, it is a supernatural/spiritual creature, or it is a great spirit/tutelary deity/goddess-god. From there comes mythology and faith in things not seen but are believed to somehow relate or interact with this “real world” we know exists. Both areas of Lake Baikal, one on the west side with Ancient North Eurasian culture and one on the east side with Ancient Northern East Asian culture (later to become: Ancient Northeast Asian culture) areas are the connected areas that (to Damien) are the origin ancestry religion area for many mythologies and religious ideas of the world by means of a few main migrations and many smaller ones leading to a distribution of religious ideas that even though are vast in distance are commonly related to and centering on Lake Baikal and its surrounding areas like the Amur region and Altai Mountains region. To an Animistic Thinker: “Things are not just as they seem, they may have a spirit, or spirit energy relates to them” To a Totemistic Thinker: “Things are not just as they seem, they may have a spirit, or spirit energy relates to them; they may have religio-cultural importance.” “Lakes are often mysterious bodies of water, especially if they are very deep or surrounded by mountains. No wonder legends and mysteries thrive about them, including monsters that supposedly lurk in their bottomless depths.”
