Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images from pre-Christian Europe. Gods, humans, and monstrous...Read more
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Friday, March 18, 2016 - 23:36
This is an enchantingly told collection of the stirring sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and such heroes as Cuchulain, Fingal, and King Arthur from the ancient Celtic world. Included are popular myths and...Read more
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 23:32
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most...Read more
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 23:30
On November 21, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, the twenty-three-year-old son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of southwest New Guinea when his boat capsized. He was on a collecting expedition for the Museum...Read more
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 23:25
Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there...Read more
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 23:43
A look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science
- Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the Egyptian and Hebrew
...Read more
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 23:41
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs,...Read more
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 23:30
The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs...Read more
Friday, March 11, 2016 - 23:28
A concise and useful handbook on the Golden Section--also known as the Golden Ratio and Golden Mean. The Golden Section is a line segment divided into two parts, such that the ratio of the short portion to the longer portion is equal to...Read more
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 21:07
There is still much disagreement over the origins and development of Israelite religion. Mark Smith sets himself the task of reconstructing the cult of Yahweh, the most important deity in Israel's early religion, and tracing the...Read more
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 21:04
Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society.
This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and...Read more
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 21:03
An in-depth look at the role of number as a bridge between Heaven and Earth
- Reveals the numerical code by which the ancients maintained high standards of art and culture
- Sets out the alchemical formulas for the fusion
...Read more
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 21:00
The number of books in the Bible depends on which Bible is being referenced. Protestant and Catholic churches recognize 27 New Testament books.
Protestants recognize 39 books of the Jewish canon in the Old Testament.
Roman...Read more
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 01:01
“These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea, having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their...Read more
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 00:57
The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space...Read more
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 00:55
A fascinating and inspirational look at the vital link between the hidden geometrical order of the universe, geometry in nature, and the geometry of the man-made world.
The Da Vinci Code has awakened the public to the powerful and...Read more
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 21:24
Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
“The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality”(1974...Read more
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 21:20
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy—a wide-ranging, astonishingly...Read more
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 19:48
In 1926 the fabled alchemist Fulcanelli left his remarkable manuscript concerning the Hermetic Study of Gothic Cathedral Construction with a student. He than disappeared. The book decodes the symbology found upon and within the Gothic...Read more
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 19:47
Charles Hapgood’s classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilization existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the...Read more
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