Ethnic Tribal category: 190 books
by Silke Trzcionka
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria presents an in-depth investigation of a variety of ‘magical’ practices with a focused study in the late antique Syria and Palestine.
Offering new research using both archaeological and literary sources, and blending Classical, Jewish, and...
Lowcountry Voodoo
Beginner's Guide to Tales, Spells and Boo Hags
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
When African slaves were brought to the American South to work the plantations, they brought with them their culture, traditions, and religion—including what came to be called voodoo. This unique blend of Christianity, herbalism, and folk magic is still practiced in South Carolina's Lowcountry.
Though...
The Hopi Survival Kit
The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Now made public for the first time—an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium
For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old...
by Daniel G. Brinton
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
What are man's earliest ideas of a soul and a God, and of his own origin and destiny? Why do we find certain myths, such as of a creation, a flood, an after-world; certain symbols, as the bird, the serpent, the cross; certain numbers, as the three, the four, the seven-intimately associated with these...
by William D. Westervelt
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This literary treasure provides one of the earliest glimpses into precolonial Hawaaiin culture.
This book, one of six written by Dr. Westervelt, is a fascinating compilation of Hawaiian legends and historical tales. The origins of the Hawaiian people, the demi-god Maui's search for immortality...
by Swain Wodening
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Long has the topic of ancestor worship in modern Germanic Heathenry been largely overlooked. While many within Germanic Heathenry worship their ancestors, other than a few mentions in books, blog posts, web pages and small publications there has not been a work dedicated to the topic. This short book...
Lords of the Earth
An Incredible but True Story from the Stone-Age Hell of Papua's Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Engulfed in the darkness of Irian Jaya's Snow Mountains live the Yali, naked cannibals who call themselves lords of the earth. Yet, in spite of their boldness, they live in terror and bondage to the women-hating, child-despising gods they serve. Missionary Stan Dale dared to enter their domain and...
Ancient African Christianity
An Introduction to a Unique Context and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a unique tradition that was shaped by its context....
by Eirik Westcoat
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Honor the Gods with the ancient poetic forms!
Now, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, here is a vast new collection of liturgical poetry for honoring the Aesir and Vanir in the alliterative meters that the Gods and their worshippers used in the Viking Age. To the Gods, poetry...
by Marjory Wardrop
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Georgian Folk Tales
Translated by Marjory Wardrop
A collection of folk tales from the nation of Georgia.
"This is a short collection of folk tales from the nation of Georgia by Marjorie Wardrop. Wardrop also translated the Georgian author Rusthaveli's The Man in the Panther's Skin....
A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land
A Case Study of Ohaozara in Ebonyi State
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies...
African Religion Defined
A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship among the Akan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
African religion is ancestor worship; it revolves around the dead, now thought to be alive and well in heaven (the Samanadzie) and propitiated by the living on earth. For the Akan, the ancestors’ stool is the emblem of the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo). Led by their kings and queen mothers as living...
by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
"During the earlier years of my life with the Zuñi Indians of western-central New Mexico, from the autumn of 1879 to the winter of 1881—before access to their country had been rendered easy by the completion of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, —they remained, as regards their social and...
by James Owen Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Cult, as used in this book, means a system of religious belief and worship, especially the rites and ceremonies employed in such worship. The present book treats of the cults of a few of the...