Antiquities category: 284 books
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology
The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén...
by Barry Brailsford
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Human conflict touches our lives every day.We begin to think the aggression that destroys families and nations is “what always has been… and what will always be.” Yet, the indigenous wisdom keepers of the sacred histories say that’s a distortion of the human story. There were peoples who found...
Fountains Abbey
The Cistercians in Northern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Within the stunning eighteenth-century park of Studley Royal in Yorkshire, lie the ruinous remains of Fountains Abbey – one of the finest examples of Cistercian architecture in Europe. Drawing on contemporary historical evidence, the results of excavations, and his English Heritage conservation...
by James
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
A short history of Kilwinning Abbey and the Freemasons Lodge at Kilwinning
by Anna Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure...
by Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
In 1988, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin--long regarded as the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth--could not be from the time of Jesus but was of a more recent origin. What scientists did not know at that time, but what author Dr. Leoncio Garza-Valdes came to discover, is that bacteria...
Discovering the City of Sodom
The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities.
Like many Christians today in the academic world, Dr. Steven Collins felt pulled in different directions when it came to apparent conflicts between the Bible and scholarly research and theory—an...
by Robin Lorsch Wildfang
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2006
Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion.
Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety...
Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons
Women in Roman Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public religious ceremonies, taking part in rituals designed...
Restoring the Enoch Calendar with no Intercalation
Enochs Calendar made complete with a 365th Day Added in Scriputre!
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
THE MYSTERY OF THE CALENDAR ... UNLOCKED!
Most Enochian Calendar people believe that there are 364 days in a Scriptural Year! I go to great lengths to PROVE that there is a 365th day added in Scripture to make our current Yearly Cycle 365 Days!
The Sun itself is a Witness to this in our current 365 day cycle! Enjoy!
Excavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China,...
The Roots of Hinduism
The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which...
by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Once, all life in the universe knew the Flower of Life as the creation pattern — the geometrical design leading us into and out of physical existence. Then from a very high state of consciousness we fell in darkness and forgot who we were. For thousands of years the secret was held in ancient artifacts...
by Alain de Benoist
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In this wide-ranging yet concise study, Alain de Benoist brings his incisive intelligence and wide erudition to bear on the fiercely debated subject of the mysterious origin and practical and magical functions of runes, providing the reader with a thorough grounding in the potential origin points...