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AMAZONS
The Mysterious World of the Warrior Women
ISBN: 9789654941990
ISBN 10: 9654941996
The Mysterious World of the Warrior Women
One of the ancient myths that have captured our imagination is the story of the Amazon women. Mythology tells of warrior women that lived as an isolated and self-sufficient tribe whose only contact with other tribes was during war and for propagation. When hearing about the Amazons one thinks of the tale that they tied down one of their breasts so that they could shoot their bows and arrows more expertly and that they killed their male offspring in order to maintain a female-only tribe. Merina Valasca researched the ancient myth of the Amazons and discovered that the myth was not limited to Ancient Greece but found evidence that the Amazons existed - in myth or reality - in various cultures such as ancient Egypt Africa and Asia and in Europe after the Romans. Through anecdotes illustrations and paintings this book tells the story of the daring Amazons who fought against fully-armed troops of men and defeated them! These were women who chose to live without men and who used them only to further their dynasty
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ISBN: 9789654941990
ISBN 10: 9654941996
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ANDEAN CODEX
Initiations and Adventures Among the Peruvian Shamans
ISBN: 9781571743046
ISBN 10: 1571743049
Initiations and Adventures Among the Peruvian Shamans
For the past three decades Dr Williams has risked his personal safety to journey among shamans in Peru the mystical and spiritual centre of our times. The spiritual travelogue includes descriptions of the shamanic ceremonies he performed at sacred sites like Machu Picchu and Cuzco as well as his initiations using the mind- expanding psychedelic ayahuasca and the sacred coca plant.
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ISBN: 9781571743046
ISBN 10: 1571743049
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BABALU-AYE
ISBN: 9780942272628
ISBN 10: 0942272625
Babalu give his devotees means to survive.
Ulli Beier, a seasoned scholar and poet of Yoruba Culture, Elaborates on this point: "Sakpata (Babalu) is the god of suffering.
He teaches his worshippers to cope with misfortunes (particularly disease). If Sakpata strikes a man with smallpox, it is because he wants to establish a very close relationship with that person.
Only the man who is not mature enough or strong enough will die of the disease.
For the worthy person it is like an initiation: a death and resurrection into a mature, richer life."
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Ulli Beier, a seasoned scholar and poet of Yoruba Culture, Elaborates on this point: "Sakpata (Babalu) is the god of suffering.
He teaches his worshippers to cope with misfortunes (particularly disease). If Sakpata strikes a man with smallpox, it is because he wants to establish a very close relationship with that person.
Only the man who is not mature enough or strong enough will die of the disease.
For the worthy person it is like an initiation: a death and resurrection into a mature, richer life."
ISBN: 9780942272628
ISBN 10: 0942272625
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BOOK ON PALO
Deities Initiatory Rituals and Ceremonies
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ISBN: 9780942272666
ISBN 10: 0942272668
Deities Initiatory Rituals and Ceremonies
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ISBN 10: 0942272668
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BUSHMAN SHAMAN
Awakening The Spirit Through Ecstatic Dance
ISBN: 9780892816989
ISBN 10: 0892816988
Awakening The Spirit Through Ecstatic Dance
Bradford Keeney details his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen regarded by some scholars as the oldest living culture on earth. Keeney sought out the Bushmen whilst in South Africa as a visiting professor of psychotherapy. He had known of the Kalahari trance dance wherein the dancers' bodies shake uncontrollably as part of the healing ceremony. Keeney was drawn to this tradition in the hope it may explain and provide a forum for his own ecstatic shaking which he had first experienced at the age of 19 and had tried to suppress throughout his adult life. For more than a dozen years Keeney danced with Bushmen shamans in communities throughout Botswana and Namibia until finally becoming fully initiated into their doctoring and spiritual ways. He offers readers accounts of his shamanic world travels and the secrets of the soul he learned along the way. He also reveals his work with shamans from Japan Tibet Bali Thailand Australia and North and South America which he integrates into a sacred circle of one truth encompassing all of these traditions.
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ISBN: 9780892816989
ISBN 10: 0892816988
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CUBAN SANTERIA WALKING THE NIGHT
ISBN: 9780892817627
ISBN 10: 0892817623
Initiated into the Santeria priesthood at the age of seven, Raul Canizares unveils in Cuban Santeriathe secret and seductive world of this rapidly growing, yet largely misunderstood, Afro-Cuban religion. With the knowledge of an insider and the insight of a scholar, Canizares astutely examines the practice of Santeria, revealing many of its hidden dimensions while simultaneously providing a fascinating account of its unique textured mix of African, Cuban, and Catholic traditions.
The Cuban-born author describes the practices and rituals of the followers of Santeria--from magical herbal prescription and healing to spiritism and animal sacrifice--and explains how for many years the religion has been maintained under the guise of Catholicism to avoid religious persecution. Most initiates are sworn to a code of silence, but Canizares believes that the time has come to move Santeria, a religion of beauty and resilience, out of the darkness and into the light so that a more accurate picture of this rich tradition can emerge.
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The Cuban-born author describes the practices and rituals of the followers of Santeria--from magical herbal prescription and healing to spiritism and animal sacrifice--and explains how for many years the religion has been maintained under the guise of Catholicism to avoid religious persecution. Most initiates are sworn to a code of silence, but Canizares believes that the time has come to move Santeria, a religion of beauty and resilience, out of the darkness and into the light so that a more accurate picture of this rich tradition can emerge.
ISBN: 9780892817627
ISBN 10: 0892817623
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DANCE OF THE FOUR WINDS - SECRETS OF THE INCA MEDICINE WHEEL
ISBN: 9780892815142
ISBN 10: 0892815140
American psychologist Alberto Villoldo recounts his journey to Peru to explore the visionary ceremonies of the Quecha shamans. In this magical realm of enigmatic sorcerers and powerful animal totems, Villoldo confronts the hidden powers of his own mind as he unlocks the secrets of the human psyche.
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ISBN: 9780892815142
ISBN 10: 0892815140
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ESHU ELEGGUA ELEGBARA
Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads
ISBN: 9780942272611
ISBN 10: 0942272617
Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads
Yoruba theology teaches that there are 401 powers of the right (Angels) called Orisha whose role is to act as protectors and facilitators of Human kind There are also 201 powers of the left called Ajogun (Demons) whose role is to present humans with challenges and obstacles. Eshu's place is unique because he is both an Orisha and the Leader of the Ajogun! He is the one in four hundred and one and the one in two hundred and one.
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ISBN: 9780942272611
ISBN 10: 0942272617
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GOSPEL OF THE TOLTECS
The Life and Teachings of Quetzalcoatl
ISBN: 9781879181861
ISBN 10: 187918186X
The Life and Teachings of Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl Ce Acatl (born in A.D. 947) - whose stature has been compared to that of Christ Buddha and Krishna - was the key figure in the development of the spiritual culture of the Toltecs. In THE GOSPEL OF THE TOLTECS the author has gathered Nahua and Maya codexes Spanish chronicles of conquest and native oral tradition to recount the life of Quetzalcoatl: his temptation and fall; his initiation with sacred mushrooms; his long journey in search of spiritual enlightenment; his triumphant return to the Toltec land; and his subsequent teaching self-immolation ascension and promise of return. Quetzalcoatl's teachings make up the Toltecayotl or Toltequity - the art of intentional doing - which provides an initiatic guide for the transformation of individuals and society while his personal history is a guide for the development of Nahualli the magical side of human awareness. For all those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the roots of Toltec spirituality or who wish to grow from the teachings of one of the world's great spiritual leaders THE GOSPEL OF THE TOLTECS offers a unique and authentic access to the life and ministry of one of the most important figures in the ancient world. · A compilation of the teachings of Quetzalcoatl avatar of the Toltecs reconstructed from original source texts and the legends told at his birthplace in Amatlan Morelos Mexico. · Includes 86 chronological teaching stories accompanied by 27 codex illustrations.
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ISBN: 9781879181861
ISBN 10: 187918186X
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HAITIAN VODOU HANDBOOK
Protocols for Riding with the Lwa
ISBN: 9781594771255
ISBN 10: 1594771251
Protocols for Riding with the Lwa
Until recently the Haitian practice of Vodou was often identified with devil worship dark curses and superstition. Some saw the saint images and the Catholic influences and wrote Vodou off as a Christian aberration. Others were appalled by the animal sacrifices and the fact that the Houngans and Mambos charge money for their services. Those who sought Vodou because they believed it could harness evil forces were disappointed when their efforts to gain fame fortune or endless romance failed and so abandoned their voodoo fetishes. Those who managed to get the attention of the lwa the spirits honoured in Haitian Vodou often received cosmic retaliation for treating the lwa as attack dogs or genies which only further cemented Vodou's stereotype as dangerous. In THE HAITIAN VODOU HANDBOOK Kevin Filan a Vodou priest explains how to build respectful relationships with the lwa of the Vodou pantheon and how to transform the fear that often surrounds the Vodou religion. He offers extensive background information on the lwa and instructions on how to honour and interact fruitfully with those that make themselves accessible emphasising the importance of having a quickened mind that can read the lwa's desires intuitively in order to avoid establishing dogma-based relationships. He also discusses the role of Vodou in Haitian culture and explores the symbiotic relationship Vodou has maintained with Catholicism through the connections between the lwa and the Christian saints.
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ISBN: 9781594771255
ISBN 10: 1594771251
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ISLAND OF THE SUN
Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel
ISBN: 9780892815203
ISBN 10: 0892815205
Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel
Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo's return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors' earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo's first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel and the spiritual journey of the Four Winds. Villoldo had begun that journey in the South, where one goes to confront and shed the past. With use of the powerful mind-altering plant ayahuasca, he had continued to the West, a direction also inhabited by fear and death. Now in Island of the Sun he prepares himself for the journey to the North, where lies the wisdom of the ancient Inca shamans. Traveling from Machu Picchu to the Island of the Sun, a sacred site in Bolivia, Villoldo uncovers a profound secret about the journey to the East--the journey home.
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ISBN: 9780892815203
ISBN 10: 0892815205
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JAGUAR THAT ROAMS THE MIND
An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey
ISBN: 9781594772542
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An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey
THE JAGUAR THAT ROAMS THE MIND is a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism - an adventure of initiation and return - that explores the unique reality at the heart of the Amazonian healing system. Robert Tindall shares his journeys through the inner and outer landscape of the churches of ayahuasca and with the Kaxinawa Indians in Brazil; his experiences at the pioneering centre for the treatment of addiction, Takiwasi, in Peru; and his studies with an Ashaninca master shaman deep in the rainforest jungle.
Moving beyond the scientific approach to medicinal plants, which seeks to reduce them to their chemical constituents, Tindall illustrates the shamans' intimate relationships with plant spirits. He explores the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: purging (drawing disease out of the body), psychoactive plants (including the ritual use of ayahuasca) and diet (communing with the innate intelligence of teacher plants). Through trials and revelations, the subtle inner logic of indigenous healing unfolds for him, including the “miraculous” healing of a woman suffering from a brain tumour. Culminating in a ceremony fraught with terror yet ultimately enlightening, Tindall's journey reveals the crucial component missing from the metaphysics of the West: the understanding and appreciation of the sentience of nature itself.
· Explores the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism: purging, psychoactive plants, and diet
· Shares the experiences of apprenticing with an Ashaninca master shaman
· Reveals the intimate relationship between shamans and plant spirits
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JOURNEY OF TUNURI AND THE BLUE DEER
ISBN: 9781591430162
ISBN 10: 159143016X
The Huichol Indians live in the remote regions of the Sierra Madre Mountains of western Mexico where geographic isolation has allowed them to retain their culture and spiritual traditions in the face of colonisation. Their nature-based way of life makes no distinction between the sacred and the secular and they express their reverence for the powers of the earth by regarding all elements in nature as family. THE JOURNEY OF TUNURI AND THE BLUE DEER is a modern adaptation of a traditional Huichol story depicting a young child finding his (or her) personal task in life by connecting with the powers of nature. The story is told through the experiences of young Tunuri who becomes lost in the woods. He meets the magical Blue Deer--a messenger between the worlds of mortals and deities--who introduces Tunuri to Father Sun Mother Earth and others in the natural world while leading him back to his human family. Through this lovely tale and the vivid illustrations done in the medium of traditional Huichol yarn drawings children can learn about their place in the sacred web of life. ¨ Shares the hidden treasures of a nature-based indigenous culture ¨ A teaching tool for multicultural studies for children ages 6 to 9 ¨ Explains who the Huichol people are and the symbolism of the images used by the artists
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ISBN: 9781591430162
ISBN 10: 159143016X
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LEGENDS AND PROPHECIES OF THE QUERO APACHE
Tales for Healing and Renewal
ISBN: 9781879181779
ISBN 10: 1879181770
Tales for Healing and Renewal
In a small canyon in the White Mountains of Arizona a young girl sits and listens to her grandfather's stories. They tell of a people known as the Tlish Diyan or Snake Clan and how they came to be. She learns the story of her parents and grandparents uncles and aunts and an entire lineage that weaves between four legged two legged spirits ancestors ritual adventure and the creation of the world by Changing Mother and the Giver of All Life. In this way she comes to know and find her place in All Our Relations. This child is Maria Yracébûrû granddaughter of Apache holy man Ten Bears and the hereditary recipient of his philosophy legends prophecy and knowledge. In the traditional storytelling ways of her ancestors Maria Yracébûrû respectfully weaves her contemporary experience into the tapestry of tales passed down from generations. The legends of the Tlish Diyan she presents in LEGENDS AND PROPHECIES OF THE QUERO APACHE relay how sacred universal laws govern our relationship to the natural world our interaction with nature and our respect for each other. · Includes 13 stories of the Tlish Diyan (Apache Snake Clan). · Provides contemporary insights into these legends to make them relevant to the modern reader.
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ISBN: 9781879181779
ISBN 10: 1879181770
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MASTERS OF THE LIVING ENERGY
ISBN: 9781594770128
ISBN 10: 1594770123
Known as the keepers of the ancient knowledge the Q'ero Indians of Peru are the most respected mystics of the south-central Andes. In 1996 Joan Parisi Wilcox travelled to the Andes and was able to record the mysteries of the Kawsay Pacha the multidimensional world of living energy through more than 40 hours of intensive interviews with six Q'ero paqos masters of the ancient spiritual traditions of Peru. The Q'ero are known for having preserved the Inca spiritual tradition more precisely than any other indigenous population of the Andes. The in-depth interviews presented in this book recount the direct words of these masters so readers can discover for themselves the mind and heart space of these people. Four new chapters of this revised edition focus on the work of the mesa the Andean form of a spiritual medicine bundle and it's use as a conduit for the healing energies of nature. The mesa is called the heart's fire because it represents the finest energy - the energy of compassion - that a paqo cultivates while walking the sacred path.
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ISBN: 9781594770128
ISBN 10: 1594770123
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OBATALA
Santeria and the White Robed King of the Orisha
ISBN: 9780942272635
ISBN 10: 0942272633
Santeria and the White Robed King of the Orisha
Obatala means "King of the White Cloth." This title refers to a particularly soft and beautiful white fabric associated with Yoruba Kings. This fabric's myriad threads are so masterfully interwoven that at first sight one cannot distinguish them. "To call an orisha the chief of white cloth is to make a symbolic reference to that substance which makes consciousness possible It is a reference to the fabric which binds the universe together.
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ISBN: 9780942272635
ISBN 10: 0942272633
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