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In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline-- her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king's blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered. Monsters attack en route, slaughtering everyone except Évike and the cold,...
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"Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar's immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism - from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies - and decides to train...
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This book is an introduction to the Morrigan and several related goddesses who share the title, including Badb and Macha. It combines solid academic information with personal experience in a way that is intended to dispel the confusion that often surrounds who this goddess was and is.
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In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema....
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Riverhead Books
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[2020]
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It's the season of Fallow, in the era of iron. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple--or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she's tilled alongside all her life,...
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Ásatrú is a spiritual belief system based around the pre-Christian folklore and mythology of Northern Europe. This book is a newcomer's guide to this spirituality. It breaks down everything from the history and traidtions to the gods and goddesses, anceint texts, sacred ritutals, and use of runes with an accessible approach.
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In 1948, Robert Graves published The White Goddess. His study of poetic mysticism and goddess worship has since become a founding text of Western paganism. As Wicca emerged from what Graves called, a few hopeful young people in California, to over two million strong, The White Goddess has achieved near liturgical status. This rising appreciation brings all the problems of liturgical texts. Many pagans consider Graves' work like the goddess herself;...
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Working in the hospital and prison ministry, I had the opportunity to meet the country's most feared criminal. He was a cult leader with forty churches all around the country. A group of us would go to the prison every Wednesday and were, allowed to have, church for one hour.
God used me to witness, to this black, Jewish person who did not, believe in Jesus, but knew the Old Testament very well. He proclaimed to be their King. With the help of God...
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Revealing the Green Man is, designed to impart a practical revelation of a deep and ancient mystery through actual archaeological and historic case studies, which point to personal intellectual and spiritual enlightenment affecting everyone alive today. The book is not just a lazy stroll through entertaining stories of some lost mystery cult, but a resurrection of a long and ancient religion as old as time itself, which is now challenging us to care...
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Mistakes and Pitfalls in Magical Practice is an occult manual that talks about the common mistakes and pitfalls that beginners and even advanced practitioners of the Craft often face. If you want to truly succeed in your path, it is important to be able to know and identify the blunders and traps that you can expect to face along the way. This will help you not only to grow as a magician/witch but also to speed up your magical progress. Mistakes and...
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Many people believe you have to be a pagan to appreciate and perform ritual, which is untrue. For thousands of years people have been drawn together to dance, make music, pray and feast, these activities are all the parts of ceremony. The ceremonies in this book are designed to help you become more attuned to yourself, others and nature. You don't have to be a pagan, you don't have to be a shaman or witch, you can be just you with your imagination...
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In this book, you will learn how to develop Pagan spiritual goals that are balanced and meaningful. Every day we experience the cycles of Earth, the moon, the sun, and the changes in life. By connecting your practice to these sacred cycles you will learn to create a meaningful and magical life.
13) Bard Song
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Bard Song is a collection of poetry, mostly in medieval Welsh and Irish meters, and reflections on the nature of the Bard in early Celtic society and the role of poetry within modern Druidry and polytheism generally.
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Perhaps the first serious attempt to collate the vast body of druidic knowledge from verifiable ancient sources and Celtic survivals into one usable and practical volume as a handy reference for druids and a learning tool for the would-be druid. Inspired by the medieval Irish 'Scholar's Primer' this work is the culmination of 15-years' research and practical exploration of what it means to be a druid in a modern context.
15) A Druid's Tale
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What do people think of when they hear the word Druidry? The real questions, not questions about the old men in white robes stereotypes. What makes a Druid? What do they do? Having been a practising Druid for over ten years, Cat Treadwell wondered too. Asked to present a talk at a national Pagan Festival, and unsure exactly what the audience would want to hear, she started a blog, asking friends and colleagues (Muggle and Pagan) what they would like...
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If you are the parent of a teenage boy, The Way of the Horned God will guide your son in growing to be a man, who will be responsible, courageous, and true Son of the Great Goddess and Horned God. If you are a young man, who is serious about Pagan spirituality and is interested in working toward harmony within yourself and with nature The Way of the Horned God is written especially for you.
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Druidry is a wonderful, spiritually fulfilling life path. Through the magic that is Druidry, we build deep and abiding relationships with the natural world around us, and through our connection to the natural environment, we walk a path of truth, honor and service. We aim to immerse ourselves in the present moment, in the present environment, in order to share in the blessing that is the cycle of life. Throughout the ages, people have withdrawn from...
18) desde Paganismo: Todo el Paganismo Antiguo, Helénico, Nórdico y Celta hasta el Etenismo, la Wicca
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¡Una guía fácil de entender para todo lo que usted quiera saber sobre el paganismo!¿Alguna vez ha querido comprender los sofisticados sistemas de creencias de las religiones antiguas?¿Siempre le han intrigado las intrincadas mitologías de Grecia y Roma?¿Le atrae la naturaleza misteriosa y espiritual del universo, pero le resulta difícil acceder a ella?Si es así, ¡entonces ha encontrado el libro correcto! Con su ayuda, podrá conocer la historia...
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A complete guide to the practice of prayer and ritual for Pagans of all traditions.
Here is an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of payers and rituals for contemporary Pagans from a variety of traditions to turn to again and again. The Big Book of Pagan Prayer and Ritual includes the following:
The role of prayer-yesterday and today. The various hidden structures of prayers. How to pray both with and without words. Rituals for purification,...
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Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naïve and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul.
Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision, enthusiasm...
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