Resultados para "la magia" en Europa

The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at night Reidhlean – a field for games or dancing Cathairin – a field with a fairy-dwelling in it. The richness of the Irish language is closely tied...

Ireland and India seem far apart, with apparently little in common in terms of culture, language, and tradition. Yet appearances can be deceiving: there are, in fact, remarkable similarities between the cultures that, once noticed, are impossible to ignore. They point to a shared kinship thousands of years ago that upends the concept of separation between Eastern and Western cultures.

Manchán Magan traces the forgotten presence of the Irish in Iceland; monks and migrants, storytellers and shapeshifters who helped shape a land we’ve long imagined as purely Norse.

Por muito tempo a deusa Perséfone tem sido representada como uma força eternamente dividida entre o mundo dos vivos e o mundo dos mortos; uma donzela cujo destino é controlado pela mãe, Deméter, deusa da colheita, e Hades, rei do mundo inferior. Ao menos, é isso que somos levados a acreditar... O caminho de Perséfone é um guia completo sobre a deusa, baseado em pesquisas históricas extensas. Ele também é uma jornada conduzida por Obsidiyana, sacerdotisa de Perséfone e bruxa ctônica, que nos leva da raiz dos cultos antigos a essa divindade até a devoção moderna na bruxaria.

Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of Nazi violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and trained in espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. For crucial months of the war, Noor was the only wireless operator in France sending critical information to London.

Si alguna vez te has interesado por el lore de las películas de Marvel o la serie de El Señor de los Anillos, entonces deberías probar la lectura sobre la mitología nórdica antigua. Sumérgete en el mundo de los dioses y los gigantes, y lee historias llenas de personajes valientes y engañosos, derramamiento de sangre, magia y un poco de humor.

The Mirror of Alchemy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae. Translated in 1597, it was only the second alchemical text printed in the English language. Long ascribed to Roger Bacon, the work is more likely the product of an anonymous author who wrote between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries.