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Rituals for Magic and Meaning
Sacred living for each season Celebrate life: What is sacred living? It is aligning our living with the rhythms of the Earth and recognizing that those rhythms are deeply meaningful. It is living in the knowledge that we are part of something larger than ourselves. It is being grateful for life while we live it. The key to celebrating the abundance of life lies in the recognition that we are surrounded by all that is sacred. Organized by season, Rituals for Magic and Meaning offers a suggested ceremony for each day of the year and includes hundreds of simple rites, suggestions, meditations, and holiday celebrations that can make the ordinary extraordinary. Personalize your scared rituals: The culmination of a life’s work, author Cerridwen Greenleaf has poured her years of study into this guide to creating meaning in daily life. Rituals for Magic and Meaning fully explores the hows and whys behind ritual ─ allowing readers to truly master the art of creating personalized rituals. The author provides readers with a clear understanding of what makes up a ritual as well as detailed instruction on how to actually create rituals for personal growth. This book also gives readers a deeper awareness of the uses and applications of the art of rituals. Rituals for Magic and Meaning includes detailed information on: holiday rituals; seasonal rituals; designing original rituals; rites of passage and even life events such as birth, baby-naming, healing circles before surgery, “letting go” divorce rituals, graduation and weddings. Rituals for Magic and Meaning is an empowering and thought-provoking book that guides readers to the next level of their journey towards personal and spiritual growth.
Фольклорный путеводитель по Каргополью
В сборнике публикуются тексты различных жанров, записанные в ходе многолетней систематической работы фольклорной экспедиции Российского государственного гуманитарного университета (г. Москва) в Каргопольском районе Архангельской области. В них жители города и района рассказывают о достопримечательностях Каргополя и его окрестностей, о святых, прославивших эти места своими подвигами, о святынях, почитаемых каргополами, об исторических деятелях, побывавших в Каргополье. Все тексты представляют собой аутентичные записи, снабжены справочным аппаратом и откомментированы. Сборник рассчитан как на специалистов, так и на всех, кому интересен фольклор и культура северного края.
От сказки к сказке
Повествуя о возникновении и изменении как отдельных природных реалий и культурных объектов, так и мира и человека в целом, этиологические сказки и легенды отражают фольклорно-мифологическую картину мира. Практически на любой вопрос «почему?» народная традиция предлагает свой ответ. Опираясь на двадцатилетний опыт сбора, перевода и издания антологий этиологической прозы разных традиций (русской, украинской, французской, итальянской, цыганской), автор анализирует феномен этиологического текста, который долгое время оставался вне поле зрения собирателей и публикаторов в силу его сложного жанрового состава, тематической структуры, а также взаимодействия с апокрифической традицией и литературными первоисточниками. Особое внимание уделяется взаимопроникновению этиологического корпуса и «народной Библии». Отдельные главы посвящены наиболее популярным в Европе этиологическим сюжетам, их происхождению, вариантам и географии: «Пересмотр продолжительности человеческой жизни и жизни животных», «Змея-жених», «Разные дети Евы», «Распределение судеб и даров». В других главах разбираются такие важные предметы этиологического дискурса, как луна, чужестранец, женщина, тело. Вторая часть целиком посвящена русской и в целом восточнославянской традиции. В ней рассматривается специфика русского этиологического корпуса и в частности этиология Бабы-яги, самого характерного персонажа русской сказки, которая связывает устную традицию с лубком. Последние главы посвящены судьбе сказки в советской России, ее приспособления к задачам пропаганды, идеологической борьбы и воспитания молодого поколения. Книга адресована фольклористам и широкому кругу читателей, интересующихся фольклором и традиционной народной культурой.
The Witch's Guide to Ritual
Spiritual Ceremonies to Enrich Daily Life Practice Sacred Living. Rituals are often performed to acknowledge special, sacred moments of life. When we align ourselves with the rhythms of the earth, we see that every day is sacred. Sacred living is the art of acknowledging the abundance of life and the deep meaning within natural rhythms. The Witch’s Guide to Ritual teaches the practice of daily rituals for self-care and personal growth. The Art of Healing. The Witch’s Guide to Ritual can help you create a healing ritual space, whether you are an experienced hedge witch or a beginner exploring new magical practices. You’ll learn about the history of rites and rituals, mythology for today’s world, and how healing works in a modern witch house. Celebrate life. The key to celebrating the abundance of life lies in the recognition that we are surrounded by all that is magical. Organized by season, The Witch’s Guide to Ritual offers a suggested ceremony for each day of the year and includes hundreds of simple rites, suggestions, meditations, and holiday celebrations that can make the ordinary extraordinary. What you'll learn inside this book: The psychological benefits of rituals in your lifeWhy participating in group events enriches your life and brings you closer to friends, family, and loved onesHow to create an altar or shrine as a power center in your home for spiritual renewalWhich crystals, herbs, symbols, and talismans can bring you calm, health, love, prosperity, and happiness Healing is possible with sacred living. If you enjoyed The Witch’s Book of Self-Care, The Spirit Almanac, The House Witch, or The Witch’s Book of Rituals, you’ll love this new guide to inspired magical practice.
Ovid's Erotic Poems
The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses . But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores , Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and silly twists: the poetic narrator sets up a lyrical altar to an unattainable woman only to knock it down by poking fun at her imperfections. Ars Amatoria takes the form of didactic verse in which a purportedly mature and experienced narrator instructs men and women alike on how to best play their hands at the long con of love. Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a modern English translation of the Amores and Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent wit and verve of the original. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Sophisticated, satirical, and wildly self-referential, Ovid's Erotic Poems is not just a wickedly funny send-up of romantic and sexual mores but also a sharp critique of literary technique and poetic convention.
The Satires of Horace
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in recent decades the Satires have been rendered into prose or bland verse. Horace continues to influence modern lyric poetry, and our greatest poets continue to translate and marvel at his command of formal style, his economy of expression, his variety, and his mature humanism. Horace's comic genius has also had a profound influence on the Western literary tradition through such authors as Swift, Pope, and Boileau, but interest in the Satires has dwindled due to the difficulty of capturing Horace's wit and formality with the techniques of contemporary free verse. A. M. Juster's striking new translation relies on the tools and spirit of the English light verse tradition while taking care to render the original text as accurately as possible.
