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Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary / by LaGamma, Alisa.(CARDINAL)220428; Boehm, Barbara Drake.(CARDINAL)284295; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)147619;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Sculpture, Central African (Central Africa); Sculpture, Black; Reliquaries; Ancestral shrines;

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English ancestral homes of noted Americans / by Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth,1845-1928.(CARDINAL)124234;

Plymouth in July, 1914.--A day with the Pilgrim fathers: Plymouth, Scrooby, Austerfield, etc.--The homeland of the Franklins.--Sulgrave, the English home of the Washingtons.--Bringtons great and little. -Penshurst and Pennsylvania.--A Penn pilgrimage.--Virginia and Maryland landmarks.--Shrines in and out of London.

Subjects: Family histories.; British; Historic buildings; Old State Library Collection.;

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Signs & Shrines : spiritual journeys across New Mexico / by Niederman, Sharon.(CARDINAL)734745;

Subjects: Guidebooks.; Indians of North America; Sacred space; Shrines;

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Sacred places of a lifetime : 500 of the world's most peaceful and powerful destinations.

Introduction -- Sacred lands : hallowed hills, mysterious mountains, and sacred springs -- Ancient mysteries : delving into the secrets of our ancestral past -- Cradles of faith : visits to the landmarks of religion -- Majestic ruins : sites that still inspire despite the ravages of time -- Daily devotion : places steeped in prayer -- Shrines : tombs and relics of holy men and women -- The pilgrim's way : in the footsteps of saints and founders of religions -- Rites & festivals : a potpourri of religious fervor, spectacle, and fun -- In their memory : places of reverence to honor the dead -- Retreats : hideaways promising both spiritual and physical renewal -- Glossary -- Entries by religion.Sacred Places of a Lifetime explores icons, monuments, temples, and natural spaces that have been significant to cultures and religions around the world for centuries. In this second edition, find more than 50 new sacred places, from prehistoric holy mountains -- such as Ireland's Croagh Patrick -- to present-day monuments and marvels like Croatia's Dubrovnik Cathedral. With each entry, you'll discover each destination's history, legend, and lore, as well as how you can experience these significant locations yourself. Includes updated maps, pilgrimage routes, and places of meditation, worship, and prayer, including St. Wandrille Abbey in France, founded in 649 and celebrated for the miracles performed by the more than 35 saints who have called it home; China's revered Taishan mountain, which Confucius himself once summitted; Machu Picchu in Peru, whose origins lie in obscurity; and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, said by many to be the holiest city in the world. Plus, top 10 lists throughout illuminate specific sacred wonders, from the world's most brilliant stained glass cathedrals to nocturnal celebrations.

Subjects: Guidebooks.; Travel writing.; Sacred space.; Pilgrims and pilgrimages.;

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Spirit house : hauntings in contemporary art of the Asian diaspora / by Alexander, Aleesa,author,curator(CARDINAL)357516; Cua, Kathryn,contributor.(CARDINAL)899316; Her, Pao Houa,1982-contributor.(CARDINAL)899317; Nguyen, Tuan Andrew,1976-contributor.(CARDINAL)899318; Thy, Tai,contributor.(CARDINAL)899319; Ouyang, Catalina,1993-contributor.(CARDINAL)899320; Cruz Palileo, Maia,1979-contributor.(CARDINAL)899321; Apichatpong Weerasethakul,1970-contributor.(CARDINAL)899322; Asian American Art Initiative,associated name(CARDINAL)899323; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; Gregory R. Miller & Co.,publisher.(CARDINAL)853924; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)212949;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185)"Co-published with The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, this book accompanies Spirit House, a significant exhibition related to the museum's Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI). Spirit House takes as its conceptual launch point the omnipresent san phra phum, or spirit houses, of Thailand. Spirit houses are small devotional structures found throughout Thailand rooted in Buddhism, Brahmanism, and animist beliefs. They serve various purposes, including providing space for the spirits of the land's original occupants and honoring one's ancestors. Importantly, spirit houses provide shelter to spirits and produce them, imbuing these vernacular sites of everyday ritual with forces that collapse the distance between the past and present. The exhibition uses the spirit house as an interpretive framework to understand how contemporary artists of the Asian diaspora are grappling with issues related to ancestral presence, animism, haunted histories, and speculative futures. How might works of art function as material representations of prayers, wishes, and invocations? How do they serve as structures to hold, exorcise, produce, and honor personal and historical ghosts?"--

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Asian American art; Asian American artists; Spirit houses (Shrines); Spirit houses (Shrines); Art, Modern; Art, American;

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Shinto : the Kami spirit world of Japan / by Ono, Sokyo,1904-1990Author(DLC)n 85140064 ; Woodard, William P.,(William Parsons),1896-1973,Author(DLC)n 88172773; García, Héctor,1981-Writer of forewordnullauthor of introduction, etc.(DLC)n 2010067353; Sakamoto, Sadao,1930-ArtistAuthor(DLC)n 88136493;

Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us. Shinto: The Japanese World of Kami Spirits is a concise guide to the fundamental elements of the Shinto religion--its rich mythology and symbols, intricate rituals, festivals, ancestral spirits, awe-inspiring architecture and a profound belief in the divine presence in the natural world around us. This modernized classic, with new color and b&w images, and a new foreword by bestselling author Hector Garcia, reminds us of the intrinsic connection between humanity and nature. Shinto's reverence for the divine in all aspects of nature can inspire and guide us to achieve a more harmonious and sustainable future. Readers will discover here the pervasive influence of Shinto on all aspects of contemporary Japanese life and culture. From the hallowed shrines nestled in wooded landscapes to the vibrant tapestry of contemporary Japanese manga, films and video games featuring Kami spirits and characters--Shinto is ever-present.

Subjects: Shinto.;

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Blotto, Twinks and the riddle of the Sphinx / by Brett, Simon.(CARDINAL)349287;

Yet another financial crisis at Tawcester Towers! So this time the Dowager Duchess decides to sell off the less important family possessions, which have, for a long time, been consigned to the attics of the ancestral home. Blotto and Twinks are dispatched to help the valuer as he carries out an inspection. Not much of any worth is found but then the valuer spies some Egyptian artifacts, collected by the tenth duke, Rupert the Egyptologist. In some excitement he rushes back to London to consult his reference books, leaving Blotto and Twinks alone in the attic, where they are drawn to a sarchophagus decorated with hieroglyphs. Twinks starts to translate: 'Anyone who desecrates this shrine will be visited by the Pharoah's curse ... ' - just as Blotto prises the lid off. From that moment on a series of unpleasant incidents start happening at Tawcester Towers but it is only when the Dowager Duchess's precious pug is struck down with a stomach bug that she instructs her son to sort things out and stop the accelerating sequence of disasters. It's the brainy Twinks who decide the only thing to be done is to put the genie back in the bottle and so she, together with Blotto and their trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett, undertake take the sarcophagus back to Egypt, to the Valley of the Kings as only when this is done will the effect of the Pharoah's curse be lifted.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Blotto (Fictitious character); Twinks (Fictitious character : Brett) -; Tawcester Towers (Imaginary place) -;

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Historical atlas of world mythology / by Campbell, Joseph,1904-1987.(CARDINAL)128027;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Volume 1, Part 1 -- Way Of The Animal Powers: Mythologies of the primitive hunters and gathers -- Prologue -- Mythological dimension -- Let there be light! -- Out of one, the many -- Forbidden fruit -- Light within -- Song of the world -- Let it thus be done -- Living ground -- Universe, the earth, and earth's life -- Primate connection -- Men and tools of the old stone age -- Awakening of awe -- -- Peopling of the Earth -- Africa and Eurasia -- Cranial capacity and tool manufacture -- Locus for Eden -- Old Melanesia -- Fossilized past -- Americas -- Five basic races -- Mythologies Of The Primitive Hunters And Gatherers -- Early hunters of the open plains -- Recognition of death -- Master bear -- Sentiment of wonder -- Temple caves -- Symbols of the female power -- Shamans of the caves -- Advent of the bow and arrow -- Culture tides in Verdant Sahara -- Bubalus period, c 7000 to 4500 BC -- Period of the round-heads, from c 6000 BC -- Bovidian or pastoral period, c 4000 to 1800 BC -- Post-Bovidian period of Egyptian influences -- Chariot and equestrian periods, from c 1200 BC -- Camel period, form c 100 BC -- South African painted rock shrines -- Bushman trance dance and its mythic ground -- Living peoples of the equatorial forest -- Forest song of the Pygimes -- Ancestral caves of the Tasaday -- Andman Islanders -- Myths and tales of Andamanese -- In the beginning -- Wild-pig hunt -- Fire theft -- Catastrophe -- Landscape mythologized and the origin of death -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Subject index -- Index of place names -- Credits and acknowledgements -- Volume 1, Part 2 -- Way Of The Animal Powers: Mythologies of the great hunt -- Art as a revelation -- Paleolithic rock paintings -- Second art: rock sculpture -- Mythic and mystical modes of religious art -- Mythologies Of The Great Hunt -- Great west-to-east dispersal -- Migration of x-ray style art -- Myths of the Australian "dream time" -- Circumpolar cults of the master bear -- Bear sacrifice -- Shamanic lore of Siberia and the Americas -- Siberians -- Myths and tales of the North Pacific and Arctic -- Folktales of the maritime and reindeer Koryak -- Eskimo tales -- Four raven episodes from the American North -- Pacific coast -- First Kwakiutl totem pole -- Great Kwakiul Shaman named fool -- North American twilight of the Paleolithic great hunt -- Idea and ideas of God -- Mythologies of the North Pacific coast -- Landscape and culture -- Cosmology -- Mythological trickster -- Woodland Indians -- Iroquois and Algonquians -- Muskogean Creek -- Prehistoric societies in the American midwest -- Rocky Mountains medicine wheels -- Plains Indians -- Sun dance -- Mandan Okipa festival -- Ghost dance -- Myths and tale of the northern plains -- Three Blackfoot medicine legends -- Two creation myths -- Trickster tales -- Mythologies of the North American southwest -- Emergence -- Where the two came to their father -- Not man part -- Cultural geography -- At the uttermost part of the earth -- Myths of the Selk'nam of Terra del Fuego -- Myths of the Yamana of Tierra del Fuego -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Subject index -- Index of place names -- Credits and acknowledgements.Volume 2, Part 1: Way Of The Seeded Earth: Sacrifice -- Prologue -- Of the will in nature -- Agricultural origins and dispersals -- Diffusion, convergence, and parallelism in the formation of cultures -- Two ways to rapture -- Sacrifice: the prime symbol -- Myth -- Festival -- Offering -- Historical forms -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Subject index -- Index of place names -- Credits and acknowledgements -- Volume 2, Part 2: Way Of the Seeded Earth: Mythologies of the primitive planters: the northern Americas -- Agricultural origins in the new world -- Two agricultural systems -- From Nomadism to seed gardening -- North American agriculturalist rites and myths -- Northeast woodland -- Iroquois -- Of the longhouse and the wigwam -- Sacrifice of the white dog -- Sun God and great spirit -- Revelation to handsome lake -- Woman who fell from the sky -- Legend of the twin heroes -- Commentary on the woman who fell from the sky -- Algonquians -- Historical introduction -- Indian in the North American conscience -- Schoolcraft's surprising discovery of a Native American oral literature -- Tales of the northeast woodland -- Folktale, in contradistinction to myth -- Foreword to the Algonquian tales -- Algonquian tales -- Iroquois tales -- Iroquois tales commentary -- Southeast -- People of the trial of tears -- Removal of the Cherokee -- Heritage of Ham -- Ponce de Leon, de Soto, La Salle, and John Smith -- Natchez solar dynasty and extinction -- Five civilized tribes -- Black drink and the new fire -- Tuscarora and the Cherokee -- Removals -- Bright eyes, standing bear, and Judge Dandy's decision, April 18, 1879 -- Origin of maize and game -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Subject index -- Index of place names -- Credits and acknowledgements -- Volume 2, Part 3: Way Of The Seeded Earth: Mythologies of the primitive planters: the middle and Southern Americas -- Agricultural developments in the Mesamerican Matrix -- Tide of history -- Olmec enigma -- Agricultural rites and myths of middle America -- Southwestern North America -- Desert cultures -- Kiva -- Cycles of the sun and moon -- Spirits of life -- Northwest Mexico: the Huichol -- Land and fruit of eternal life -- Brother deer and mother maize -- Story of our roots -- New world discovered and divided -- Antilles -- Taino -- Arawak -- Carib -- South American agricultural rites and myths -- South American rain forest -- Watunna: a Cariban creation cycle from the upper Orinoco -- Desana creation myth -- Yurupari cult -- Where sacred things are seen -- Pacific coast -- Valdivia (Ecuador) and the old Pacific culture -- Ecudor as the American formative matrix -- Civilization and despoliation of Peru -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Subject index -- Index of place names -- Credits and acknowledgements.From Back Cover: Joseph Cambell's multivolume Historical Atals of World Mythology, his magnum opus, marks the culmination of his brilliant career as scholar, writer, teacher, and one of the foremost interreters of our sacred traditions. Campbell describe his work as an attempt to tell humankind's "One Great Story"--Our saga of spiritual awakening and the subsequent development of the many different mythological perspectives that have shaped us throughout time. His central theme is that our seemingly disparate spiritual traditions are neither discrete nor unique, but rather each is simply an "ethnic manifestation" of one or another of those "elemental ideals" that have forever transfixed the human psyche.

Subjects: Myths.;

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