The Sanctuary Of The Serpents

A BOOK in which YOU are the HERO! For ages 10 and up. The god of Evil, Siduran, threatens to destroy your continent. YOU embody the last glimmer of hope: As a fearless hero, the fate of the world rests in your hands. An epic quest awaits you within the mysterious Sanctuary of the Serpents. There, hidden in the shadows, lies a legendary artifact, a weapon capable of overthrowing the terrible evil god. Pass your trial by fire, face the traps, battle the monk guardians, escape the savage tribe, and uncover the fate of the magic sword. Along your journey, two allies emerge: the charming mage Kael and the fearless warrior Lyra. Will you be able to use their powers to retrieve Grayswandir and push back the darkness? YOU make the decisions to advance your quest. All you need is your ingenuity, a pencil, and an eraser to fight your enemies.

Could Demons Be The Source Of Your Struggles? A book on the breaking of bondages in believers. Discover how demons access believers, What kinds of people come for deliverance, The power of the tongue and more. Also, find numerous real-life cases of people miraculously delivered from demonic possession, and healed of disease.

A BOOK in which YOU are the HERO! For ages 10 and up. The god of Evil, Siduran, threatens to destroy your continent. YOU embody the last glimmer of hope: As a fearless hero, the fate of the world rests in your hands. An epic quest awaits you within the mysterious Sanctuary of the Serpents. There, hidden in the shadows, lies a legendary artifact, a weapon capable of overthrowing the terrible evil god. Pass your trial by fire, face the traps, battle the monk guardians, escape the savage tribe, and uncover the fate of the magic sword. Along your journey, two allies emerge: the charming mage Kael and the fearless warrior Lyra. Will you be able to use their powers to retrieve Grayswandir and push back the darkness? YOU make the decisions to advance your quest. All you need is your ingenuity, a pencil, and an eraser to fight your enemies.

This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich literary and iconographic sources, for the principal dragons of myth, and discusses matters of cult and the paradoxical association of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities.

Serpent and dragon symbolism is ubiquitous in the art and mythology of premodern cultures around the world. Over the centuries, conflicting hypotheses have been proposed to interpret this symbolism which, while illuminating, have proved insufficient to the task of revealing a singular meaning for the vast majority of examples. In The Serpent Symbol in Tradition, Dr. Dailey argues that, in what the symbolist Rene Guenon and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade have called 'traditional' or 'archaic' societies, the serpent/dragon transculturally symbolizes matter, a state of being that is constituted by the perception of the physical world as chaotic in comparison to what traditional peoples believed to be the 'higher' meta-physical source of the physical world or 'nature.' In the course of Dr. Dailey's investigations into the meaning of traditional serpent/dragon symbolism, the following contributions have proved invaluable: 1) Guénon's interpretation of the language of traditional symbolism and the metaphysics that underlies it, as well as his interpretation of the terminology of the 'Hindu Doctrines,' 2) Eliade's interpretation of traditional/archaic societies by means of his concepts of chaos, creation, Axis Mundi (World Axis), and 'Sacred and Profane,' and 3) the insights of various other researchers of serpent/dragon symbolism. Beyond purporting to resolve some of the mystery of the ancient and varied symbolism of the serpent/dragon, The Serpent Symbol in Tradition strives to serve the related functions of interpreting the symbolic meanings of a wide variety of premodern artifacts and narratives as well as providing a study of the origination, and ancient human awareness, of the mentioned state of matter.

Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows meets Alexandra Bracken's Passenger in this spellbinding conclusion the "vivid and compelling" (BCCB), New York Times bestselling Last Magician series. Bind the Book. Stop the Order. Save the Magic. Esta is no stranger to high-stakes heists; she is a seasoned thief with no reservations about using her time traveling abilities to give her an edge. But saving Harte--and magic itself--will put her skills to the test. The Book of Mysteries threatens to tear through the world and change the shape of magic forever, and only Esta and Harte stand in its way. They race through time and across the country to steal back the remaining elemental stones needed to bind the book's power, stop the Order, and save the future of the Mageus.

Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds offers a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources.

Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals are rich and multilayered, and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus expertly examines the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals. Including study of: biographies of figures such as Apollonus of Tyana; natural history; the New Testament via Gnostic texts; the church fathers; and from pagan and Christian criticism of animal sacrifice, to the acts of martyrs, the source material and detailed analysis included in this volume make it a veritable feast of information for all classicists.