Spirits Of Fire

Author : Robert Lebling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857730630
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Fire Spirits written by Robert Lebling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An energy, a pulse form of quantum physics perhaps, alive at the margins of sleep or madness, and more often in the whispering of a single unwelcome thought.' The Economist According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names - demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Neither human nor immortal, they roam the earth inhabiting dark and empty places, luring humans to their deaths or demonically possessing them if harmed or offended. Despite the fact they cannot be seen, jinn are said to be strangely human-like - marrying, bearing children, forming communities and tribes, eating, sleeping, playing and facing judgement like any other human. They are ever-present partners in the human experience, causing endless mischief, providing amazing services and sometimes inducing sheer terror. Believed in by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world and from all faiths, jinn have played a particularly central role in the literature, culture and belief systems of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Legends of the Fire Spirits explores through time and across nations the enduring phenomenon of the jinn. From North Africa to Central Asia, from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, this riveting, often chilling, yet reasoned book draws on long-forgotten ancient testimonies, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologist's reports and traveller's tales to explore the different types of jinn, their behaviour, society, culture and long history of contact with humankind. It documents their links with famous figures in history such as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and illustrates the varied and vivid portrayals of jinn in world literature. In essence Legends of the Fire Spirits demonstrates the colourful diversity of human culture and the durability of faith and is a magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world.

Author : Robin McKinley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133856
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits written by Robin McKinley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire. In McKinley?s ?First Flight,? a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her ?Hellhound? stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson introduces a young man who must defeat the creature threatening his clan in ?Fireworm,? a slave who saves his village with a fiery magic spell in ?Salamander Man,? and a girl whose new friend, the guardian of a mystical bird, is much older than he appears in ?Phoenix.? With time periods ranging from prehistoric to present day, and settings as varied as a graveyard, a medieval marketplace and a dragon academy, these stories are sure to intrigue and delight the authors? longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Author : John Crowder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977082629
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Spirits Burning written by John Crowder and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rustin Umstattd
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532615434
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit and the Lake of Fire written by Rustin Umstattd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Spirit and the Lake of Fire! What does the Spirit have to do with God's final judgment? The Holy Spirit and God's judgment upon sin are not two topics that are often connected, but to understand the full work of the Spirit, they need to be. It is not enough to view judgment as the work of just the Father and the Son, but in full Trinitarian fashion, it must be understood as the work of all three persons of the Trinity. In The Spirit and the Lake of Fire Rustin Umstattd establishes the Spirit's role in judgment by connecting several symbols that are used for both the Spirit and judgment, such as fire, God's breath, and God's arm. Furthermore, by examining Augustine's position that the Spirit is the mutual-love of the Father and the Son, and Luther's position that God's wrath is the underside of his love, Umstattd demonstrates how one comes to the conclusion that the Spirit is operative in God's judgment upon sin.

Author : Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198025858
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Fire and Spirit written by Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brenda Hillman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574155
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire written by Brenda Hillman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Griffin Poetry Trust’s International Poetry Prize (2014) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014) Fire— its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms—is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman’s masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes—Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water—have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader’s companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu.

Author : Paul Busson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605438276
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Spirits written by Paul Busson and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in 1923 and concerns the war roiling in the Tyrol a hundred years earlier. It concerns a young aristocrat who inherits a house in a small village and travels to see it. He becomes embroiled in the politics of the time and area, not to mention several of the women he meets, and hears about the mysterious "Fire Spirits" who haunt the solstice. The book is amazingly frank about sex and class and will draw the reader into the era as well as the plot. John Pelan tells the story of the novel in his introduction and Gavin O'Keefe provides the cover art.

Author : Jaq D. Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861630766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of the Fire written by Jaq D. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive important book Silver Wheel In this third volume of the Spirits of the Elements Series, we encounter yet a new perspective of elemental spirits - and find ourselves confronted with all of the passion and intensity, and even the dangers, of the element of Fire. Included in Spirits of the Fire are new aspects of the nature and types of elemental spirits as well as new approaches to elemental spirit magic. Also included are methods for focusing and directing the dynamic forces of Fire spirits, and for evoking the power of the spirit of Fire through ecstatic dance and other methods. Whether we seek the assistance of a spirit of a flame or the potency of the spirit of passion in magic, Spirits of the Fire is an essential addition to the library of any practitioner of elemental spirit magic.

Author : Garth Nix
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545522579
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Ties (Spirit Animals, Book 3) written by Garth Nix and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series. Erdas is a land of balance. A rare link, the spirit animal bond, bridges the human and animal worlds. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan each have this gift-and the grave responsibility that comes with it.But the Conquerors are trying to destroy this balance. They're swallowing whole cities in their rush for power-including Meilin's home. Fed up with waiting and ready to fight, Meilin has set off into enemy territory with her spirit animal, a panda named Jhi. Her friends aren't far behind . . . but they're not the only ones.The enemy is everywhere.

Author : Patricia Green
Publisher : Certa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939748631
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Spirits of Yahweh written by Patricia Green and published by Certa Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Patricia Green gives biblical proof that Yahweh has Seven Spirits full of supernatural power that He desires to impart. Patricia describes each of His Spirits and recounts dreams, visions, and stories, revealing how the Seven Spirits of Yahweh operate. Do you desire more spiritual power to proclaim His truth with mighty signs, wonders, and miracles? Do you need a miracle in your life? Then you need an impartation of The Seven Spirits of Yahweh included in this book.