Author : Joan Dahr Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Goddess religion
ISBN : 9780671552862
Evoking the narrative sweep of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and the spiritual resonance of "The Celestine Prophecy", Lambert creates an extraordinary debut novel of prehistoric life. The story of three wise women--each called Zena, yet born thousands of generations apart--who live by the ways of love and compassion, and explore the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul.
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300076899
Archaeologist Aubrey Burl, for more than thirty years a specialist in the study of stone circles, selects a dozen attractive and evocative rings for close examination. Each of the twelve sites illuminates a particular archaeological question - the purpose of stone circles, their construction, age, distribution, design, art, legend and relation to astronomy. Burl asks, and offers sometimes surprising answers to questions about Stonehenge: how were its bluestones transported from south-west Wales, why was its Slaughter Stone not used for sacrifice, and why is Stonehenge - the most British of stone circles - not a stone circle and not British? To conclude his account of the strange subtleties of stone circles, Burl reconstructs the social history of Swinside in the Lake District, describing the builders, their way of life, and the ceremonies they performed inside their lovely ring.
Author : Max Milligan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Megalithic monuments
ISBN : 9781860466618
This book offers detailed historical accounts of these megalithic rings, and recounts the powerful myths and legends that have surrounded them and persist to this day.
Author : Pamela Rushby
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780207199080
The body of a young girl is discovered in a peat bog in Scotland. She's been preserved in the cold water for over 2000 years. Lea Green is present at the discovery. And Lea knows who the girl is. She's Ana. Lea and Ana have met before.
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300083477
The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
Author : Anna Lee Waldo
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312198435
A twelfth-century Welsh woman gives birth to a child prophesied to lead his people and, in the process, becomes a formidable player in the socio-religious activities of her day
Author : Elly Griffiths
Publisher : Ruth Galloway Mysteries
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328974642
In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew him into a case that's haunted him for years. At the same time, Ruth receives a letter purporting to be from that very same person--her former mentor, and the reason she first started working with Nelson. But the author of those letters is dead. Or is he? The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300114065
This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. This new edition includes a section on "Druidical" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company."--Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology "This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic."--Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland
Author : Colin Richards
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1909686131
Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.
Author : Adam Welfare
Publisher : Royal Commission
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland).
ISBN : 9781902419558
Stone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
