Nine Nights Navratri

Author	: Simran Ahuja
Publisher	: Notion Press
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9789383416400
Pages	: 151 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (834 users)

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Download or read book Nine Nights Navratri written by Simran Ahuja and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book attempts for the first time in the world to give an insightful perspective of this festival of the Goddesses. Its Spiritual significance and various celebrations in India and Overseas. The book portrays the blissful joy of playing Raas and Garba and synchronizes it with the beautiful explanation of the eternal love between Radha and Krishna. Participating in the festivities of Navratri with loved ones brings positive health and happiness, which is vital for rejuvenation. It colourfully depicts the uniqueness of this dance form, which has no barriers. Whether a spectator, beginner or proficient dancer, everyone will find it interesting and illuminating. There are some unique fitness and dietary advices, energizing foods, natural make-up for everlasting beauty, along with exemplifying strategies to be a winner. The underlying essence of this book is also to bring forth the magnificence of the Goddesses and it's expression in the strength of a woman

Nine Nights of Power

Author	: Ute Hüsken
Publisher	: State University of New York Press
Release Date	: 2021-10-01
ISBN 10	: 9781438484082
Pages	: 293 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (384 users)

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Download or read book Nine Nights of Power written by Ute Hüsken and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autumnal Navarātri festival—also called Durgā Pūjā, Dassehra, or Dasain—is the most important Hindu festival in South Asia and wherever Hindus settle. A nine-night-long celebration in honor of the goddess Durgā, it ends on the tenth day with a celebration called "the victorious tenth" (vijayadaśamī). The rituals that take place in domestic, royal, and public spaces are closely connected with one's station in life and dependent on social status, economic class, caste, and gender issues. Exploring different aspects of the festival as celebrated in diverse regions of South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora, this book addresses the following common questions: What does this festival do? What does it achieve, and how? Why and in what way does it sometimes fail? How do mass communication and social media increase participation in and contribute to the changing nature of the festival? The contributors address these questions from multiple perspectives and discuss issues of agency, authority, ritual efficacy, change, appropriation, and adaptation. Because of the festival's reach beyond its diverse celebrations in South Asia, its influence can be seen in the rituals and dances in many parts of Western Europe and North America.

Nine Nights of the Goddess

Author	: Caleb Simmons
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 2018-08-01
ISBN 10	: 9781438470696
Pages	: 376 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (384 users)

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Download or read book Nine Nights of the Goddess written by Caleb Simmons and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navar?tri festival. Nine Nights of the Goddess explores the festival of Navarātri—alternatively called Navarātra, Mahānavamī, Durgā Pūjā, Dasarā, and/or Dassain—which lasts for nine nights and ends with a celebration called Vijayadaśamī, or "the tenth (day) of victory." Celebrated in both massive public venues and in small, private domestic spaces, Navarātri is one of the most important and ubiquitous festivals in South Asia and wherever South Asians have settled. These festivals share many elements, including the goddess, royal power, the killing of demons, and the worship of young girls and married women, but their interpretation and performance vary widely. This interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates Navarātri in its many manifestations and across historical periods, including celebrations in West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Collectively, the essays consider the role of the festival's contextual specificity and continental ubiquity as a central component for understanding South Asian religious life, as well as how it shapes and is shaped by political patronage, economic development, and social status.

Nine Nights on the Windy Tree

Author	: Martha Miller
Publisher	: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Release Date	: 2014-11-01
ISBN 10	: 9781626391796
Pages	: 464 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (263 users)

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Download or read book Nine Nights on the Windy Tree written by Martha Miller and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertha Brannon is a lawyer who takes care of her grandmother and is usually broke because the work she often takes is pro bono or sliding scale for the domestic violence shelter or the public defender for juvenile cases. She has eighteen months of sobriety from a cocaine addiction. Late Friday afternoon, she’s looking forward to a long and peaceful weekend, when a woman comes into her office who wants to retain her for a murder she hasn’t yet committed. Bertha needs the rent money. Thus begins a living roller-coaster ride that includes betrayal, arson, and murder. While making trips back to the drug-using haunts, Bertha meets a police woman who wants her, but she’s not sure for what. Is it just sex or is there something more? Prequel to Widow

Celebrating Life Customs around the World From Baby Showers to Funerals 3 volumes

Author	: Victoria Williams Ph.D.
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2016-11-21
ISBN 10	: 9781440836596
Pages	: 1247 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book Celebrating Life Customs around the World From Baby Showers to Funerals 3 volumes written by Victoria Williams Ph.D. and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents hundreds of customs and traditions practiced in countries outside of the United States, showcasing the diversity of birth, coming-of-age, and death celebrations worldwide. • Examines cultural events in the general categories of birth and childhood events, teen and early adulthood milestones, and aging and death customs • Offers primary and cultural document excerpts that are useful for the purposes of meeting Common Core standards • Includes color inserts that help bring the text to life • Features sidebars that present fun facts, interesting anecdotes, and recipes that are often used to celebrate various life-cycle customs in different countries • Provides information ideal for students studying geography, global studies, anthropology, and world cultures

Hedge Rider

Author	: Eric De Vries
Publisher	: Pendraig Publishing
Release Date	: 2008-06
ISBN 10	: 9780979616877
Pages	: 195 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (796 users)

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Download or read book Hedge Rider written by Eric De Vries and published by Pendraig Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld is a re-interpretation of (Hedge-)Witchery. Drawing from an extensive historical, folkloric and mythological body it re-attributes and re-defines Witchery as a Heathen Cult centred around the journey to the Underworld and contact with the Unseen. With the insights into Cosmology, Philosophy and Practice this book provides a working body of Heathen Witch-lore, designed to transform the essence of humanity in something greater through contact with our Fetch and the Underworld itself.

Roots Culture

Author	: Eddie Chambers
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2016-12-18
ISBN 10	: 9781786730749
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (867 users)

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Download or read book Roots Culture written by Eddie Chambers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as "Black Britain." Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie Chambers relates how and why during these decades "West Indians" became "Afro-Caribbeans," and how in turn "Afro-Caribbeans" became "Black-British" - and the centrality of the arts to this important narrative. The British Empire, migration, Rastafari, the Anti-Apartheid struggle, reggae music, dub poetry, the ascendance of the West Indies cricket team and the coming of Margaret Thatcher - all of these factors, and others, have had a part to play in the compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to give rise to Black Britain.

Hesiod s Anvil

Author	: Andrew J. Simoson
Publisher	: MAA
Release Date	: 2007-07-26
ISBN 10	: 0883853361
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (533 users)

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Download or read book Hesiod s Anvil written by Andrew J. Simoson and published by MAA. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how poets, philosophers, storytellers, and scientists have described motion, beginning with Hesiod, who imagined that the expanse of heaven and the depth of hell was the distance that an anvil falls in nine days. The reader will learn that Dante's implicit model of the earth implies a black hole at its core, that Edmond Halley championed a hollow earth, and that Da Vinci knew that the acceleration due to Earth's gravity was a constant. There are chapters modeling Jules Verne's and H.G. Wells' imaginative flights to the moon and back, analyses of Edgar Alan Poe's descending pendulum, and the solution to an old problem perhaps inspired by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It blends with equal voice romantic whimsy and derived equations, and anyone interested in mathematics will find new and surprising ideas about motion and the people who thought about it.

From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization

Author	: Alcuin Reid
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2012-12-20
ISBN 10	: 9781441131973
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (411 users)

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Download or read book From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization written by Alcuin Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and homilies from Pope Benedict, Cardinals and Bishops focusing on the relevance of Eucharistic adoration for liturgy, spirituality and mission today.

The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1848
ISBN 10	: IBNN:BNVA001712677
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 ( users)

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Blake s Nostos

Author	: Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher	: SUNY Press
Release Date	: 1997-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0791432971
Pages	: 222 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (329 users)

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Download or read book Blake s Nostos written by Kathryn S. Freeman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, The Four Zoas, as the culmination of his mythos.

The Cult of Draupadi Volume 1

Author	: Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Release Date	: 1988-03-21
ISBN 10	: 9780226340463
Pages	: 520 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (263 users)

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Download or read book The Cult of Draupadi Volume 1 written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-03-21 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual, and dramatic forms. Draupadi, the chief heroine of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, takes on many unexpected guises in her Tamil cult, but her dimensions as a folk goddess remain rooted in a rich interpretive vision of the great epic. By examining the ways that the cult of Draupadi commingles traditions about the goddess and the epic, Alf Hiltebeitel shows the cult to be singularly representative of the inner tensions and working dynamics of popular devotional Hinduism.

An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker

Author	: Sri Sri Ravishankar
Publisher	: Aslan Business Solutions
Release Date	: 2019-03-04
ISBN 10	: 9789385898044
Pages	: 452 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (858 users)

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Download or read book An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker written by Sri Sri Ravishankar and published by Aslan Business Solutions. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weekly Knowledge Sheets given by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a practice which began from the year 1995 and now, have been compiled into Seven Volume Series of books. This book (Volume I) is a collection of weekly talks, conversations and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between June 21 1995 to June 13 1996. An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker is a compilation of excerpts of talks by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the year 1995 - 1996. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the time they were written, because they discuss human life on the most basic levels - love, hatred, trust, peace, silence, happiness, they are still valuable today. They give us an insight into this knowledge that is so deeply profound, yet so simple, knowledge that does not just remain in the intellect, but is beautifully and effortlessly integrated into daily life. Sri Sri avoids lengthy discussions about the deeper philosophy of life, yet his talks reflect these values to their very core. This book is specially compiled to help readers going through an emotional phase or who need a guidance in life. The reader can go through any one random page (365 chapters for 365 days) for help or can follow as per ones discretion

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Author	: William Blake
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 2008-07-07
ISBN 10	: 0520256379
Pages	: 1036 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (563 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake written by William Blake and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical commentary illuminating Blake's allusions and references accompanies the texts of his poetic and prose works.

Brothel Princess is a Female Wolf

Author	: Mei YanKong
Publisher	: Funstory
Release Date	: 2019-12-26
ISBN 10	: 9781647874025
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (478 users)

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Download or read book Brothel Princess is a Female Wolf written by Mei YanKong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elder left female through actually catch up with the man to open bud for her small fish a turn over ride on the man tomorrow see that calculate divination of certainly reward him an old man of head his ya of say very accurate say she walk peach blossom luck can not think of is so a top grade peach blossom it s just that when it s over the man says he wants to marry her as a princess are you kidding the fish looked around and found that she was so excited that someone wanted her chastity that she didn t even know she had passed through princess give a person to play that much boring she want to play all over the handsome man make up for her last life to do more than 30 years of leftover woman

Laws of Early Iceland

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Publisher	: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date	: 1980-08-01
ISBN 10	: 9780887553332
Pages	: 279 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (875 users)

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Download or read book Laws of Early Iceland written by and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1980-08-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

Time and Space in Ancient Myth Religion and Culture

Author	: Anton Bierl
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date	: 2017-10-10
ISBN 10	: 9783110534221
Pages	: 386 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (15 users)

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Download or read book Time and Space in Ancient Myth Religion and Culture written by Anton Bierl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars provide an equal number of hermeneutic approaches to individual, distinct aspects of Greek and Latin literature. The volume is purposely designed not as a linear display of knowledge, but rather as an anthology of select paradigms that aim to demonstrate the multidimensional function and multifaceted role of the twin notions of "time" and "space" throughout ancient Greek and Latin literary texts. The volume opens with analyses of conspicuous cases from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with diverse instances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, and even shifting ones), in various literary genres. The volume is of greatest relevance since it meets the cultural and theoretical trends of today’s Classics. It therefore will attract not only the interest of specialised Classicists but it is also intended for a wider general readership.