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The word mythology is derived from the Greek words mythos, which means story, and logos, which means speech. Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Some of the oldest narratives in world history come from Babylon mythology.

This volume contains a complete English translation of the famous Ethiopian work, The Kebra Nagast, i.e. the Glory of the Kings [of Ethiopia]. This work has been held in peculiar honour in Abyssinia for several centuries, and throughout that country it has been, and still is, venerated by the people as containing the final proof of their descent from the Hebrew Patriarchs, and of the kinship of their kings of the Solomonic line with Christ, the Son of God.

In the grimy slums and leafy suburbs of London, a malevolent evil is lurking in the shadows. Terrorism. The perpetrators hide in plain sight. There's really no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. For ex-soldier Jason Green, it began like any another job. He'd even been assigned a young intern to assist him.

Discover the secrets to get your loved ones back their life worth living, and why the help of family and friends is critical in helping them adapt to a macular degeneration diagnosis in this practical guide and strategy for vision loss.

A collection of sincere, touching, and sometimes heartbreaking poetry to draw you in, I for INFJ is an anthology by writers with "The Advocate" personality type - equipped with profound emotional understanding and startling insights into our internal lives.

For millions of years, a bounty of unimaginable riches lay hidden deep within the scorched wastelands of the Namib desert. Diamonds. Some men cracked the earth to own them. Some men died. For ex soldier Jason Green, the job was unexpected but the brief was simple. At the most remote diamond mine in the world, something was wrong. Badly wrong. The insurance firm was deeply concerned. The running costs were enormous, the claims, numerous. What were the dark secrets that had been so carefully concealed? Secrets buried as deep as the glittering stones themselves.

Kim, Feline, Abby und Pippa - gemeinsam wollen die vier Freundinnen Urlaub in einem einsam gelegenen Ferienhaus machen. Doch dann hört es nicht mehr auf zu schneien und die vier sitzen fest. Auf engstem Raum werden die Spannungen zwischen den Mädchen immer deutlicher, denn jede von ihnen hat etwas zu verbergen. Als sie Spuren im Schnee entdecken, fühlen sie sich beobachtet und bekommen es mit der Angst zu tun. Aus der Angst wird Gewissheit, als sie Geräusche im Haus hören. Und dann verschwindet Kim.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Wallis urges listeners to survive the economic crisis through moral recovery and embrace hard times as an opportunity to transform themselves from the inside out. Whether it’s your own loss or that of friends and neighbors, the economic crisis has impacted...

From Academy Award–nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis comes the second story in a brand-new series about best friends Shai and Emmie, two third-graders destined for superstardom. Shai Williams—third-grader and superstar in the making—loves to act, sing, and dance. So when her teacher, Ms...

From Academy Award–nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis comes the first story in a brand-new series about best friends Shai and Emmie, two third graders destined for superstardom. Shai Williams was born to be a star (or a veterinarian—and maybe a dentist). She attends a special elementary...

Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and solely pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God...

What will it take to solve the biggest issues of our time: extreme and needless poverty, global warming and environmental degradation, terrorism and the endless cycle of violence, racism, human trafficking, health care and education, and other pressing problems? While Washington offers only the...

Writing in response to our current “constitutional crisis,” New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation. In Christ in...

"The Great Hymn to the Aten" is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is attributed to Pharaoh Akhenaten, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with Atenism. According to the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson, it is one of the most significant and splendid pieces of poetry to survive from the pre-Homeric world.

The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. The introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge is followed by a transliteration of the sounds of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, a word-for-word translation, and a smooth translation.

Egan, Saul, and Soloman find themselves back on Earth. A young girl named Meta is involved in a dangerous experiment, and Egan may come to learn something about humans before it is over. Originally released on tape, this adventure is now available for download for the very first time, and contains extra material omitted from the cassette version for reasons of space.

Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion.

""No one should miss this beautiful legend."" —Tony Hillerman Velma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winter Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers...

The Book of the Dead is the name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text, which was a description of the old Egyptian conception of the afterlife. It is a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to overcome obstacles in the afterlife.

"The Egyptian Book of the Dead," translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, is a pivotal work that opened the ancient Egyptian world of the afterlife to the West. Comprising a collection of spells, rituals, and incantations, this sacred text was designed to guide the deceased through the Duat (the Egyptian underworld) and ensure their safe passage to the afterlife.