The God of Spring

The God of Spring
Title The God of Spring PDF eBook
Author Arabella Edge
Publisher Picador Australia
Pages 364
Release 2007-11-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1741972159

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"Leave the fine stallions, converging battle troops and court commissions to the Vernets and their honoured friends. Here was his space. Scorched implacable skies, clouds raining dust. An ocean so tumultuous and vast it would hurt your eyes to stare at it for long. Men huddled on an improbable tempest-tossed raft. Mere planks lashed by rotting cords. Perhaps he had chanced on a subject for the King's Salon at last." Set in Paris in 1818, during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration, The God of Spring tells the story of painter Theodore Gericault. Having won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Salon at the tender age of twenty-one, he is now, seven years later, searching for the subject of his next masterpiece. But he is lovesick, hopelessly addicted to his benefactor-uncle's young wife, Alexandrine, six years his senior. Every moment without her is an eternity. Nothing else can hold his thoughts. Until he hears the story of the shipwreck of the French frigate Medusa off the shores of the West African coast and the abandonment of one hundred and fifty souls on an unseaworthy makeshift raft. It was a catastrophe that fascinated and horrified the French public, with its tales of grand betrayal, madness, murder and cannibalism. When he manages to track down two of the raft's survivors, Gericault knows he has finally found his subject, if only he can maintain his sanity.

Spring of the Stag God

Spring of the Stag God
Title Spring of the Stag God PDF eBook
Author J. C. Herneson
Publisher Bear Bones Books
Pages 0
Release 2010-06
Genre Gay erotic literature
ISBN 9781590213162

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Prepare your loins for tales of erotic adventure in the world of Khernia, in this first release of the Stag God Chronicles. "A Stag God is Born" - A sexual prisoner of his cruel uncle, young Ashlan befriends the man's prisoner, Imbru once a feared warrior of the Split Hoof orc tribe, called The Ravager of Men by by the humans, because he spent his seed only on men. Imbru knows the truth behind Ashlan's strange dreams of running through fields with an antlered brow. Ashlan doesn't understand the dreams or know he is about to inherit a divine mantle he never wanted--the legacy of the great antlered Stag God of the wild places. "The Stag & The Bear" - The young god suffering the pains of new divinity goes seeking a mentor, the great Bear God of the stormy mountain tops. Along the way, an orc hunter is forced to his knees to become Ashlan's new disciple. But approaching an old god is treacherous and his were-bear minions must be confronted and defeated before the Bear God's den is reached. "The Stag God's Disciple" - Habra of the Tines, a young orc, goes among humans to preach the worship of Ashlan. But the Patriachs of the human lands do not want to relinquish their power and bind, rape and imprison Habra. But in the dungeons new friends are waiting to be found as the faith in the Lord of the Seven Tines spreads like passion through a man's nethers.

The Spirit of Spring

The Spirit of Spring
Title The Spirit of Spring PDF eBook
Author Penelope Proddow
Publisher X-S Books
Pages 133
Release 1970
Genre Dionysus (Greek deity)
ISBN 9780138353971

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Recounts the adventures of Dionysos on earth before he went to live on Mount Olympus with the other Greek gods.

The God of Spring

The God of Spring
Title The God of Spring PDF eBook
Author Arabella Edge
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780786297368

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This story is about how French artist, Theodore Gericault, researched the shipwreck of a French frigate and the abandonment of one hundred fifty people on a makeshift raft and painted one of his best-known paintings, The Raft of the Medusa.

The Goddess

The Goddess
Title The Goddess PDF eBook
Author David Leeming
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 178
Release 2016-03-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 1780235380

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For as long as we have sought god, we have found the goddess. Ruling over the imaginations of humankind’s earliest agricultural civilizations, she played a critical spiritual role as a keeper of nature’s fertile powers and an assurance of the next sustaining harvest. In The Goddess, David Leeming and Christopher Fee take us all the way back into prehistory, tracing the goddess across vast spans of time to tell the epic story of the transformation of belief and what it says about who we are. Leeming and Fee use the goddess to gaze into the lives and souls of the people who worshipped her. They chart the development of traditional Western gender roles through an understanding of the transformation of concepts of the Goddess from her earliest roots in India and Iran to her more familiar faces in Ireland and Iceland. They examine the subordination of the goddess to the god as human civilizations became mobile and began to look upon masculine deities for assurances of survival in movement and battle. And they show how, despite this history, the goddess has remained alive in our spiritual imaginations, in figures such as the Christian Virgin Mother and, in contemporary times, the new-age resurrection of figures such as Gaia. The Goddess explores this central aspect of ancient spiritual thought as a window into human history and the deepest roots of our beliefs.

Searching for Spring

Searching for Spring
Title Searching for Spring PDF eBook
Author Christine Hoover
Publisher Baker Books
Pages 0
Release 2018-03-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780801019388

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The Bible says that God makes all things beautiful in their time, but when we look around today we see a broken and marred world. Our reality is so often the "not beautiful" that it's hard to trust that God can make our mess into something good. So how do we live with hope for a future redemption of all things? In Searching for Spring, Christine Hoover takes readers on a treasure hunt for beauty in both familiar and unexpected places. Framed by the changing seasons, this journey will heighten readers' senses and awaken their affections for the creator of it all. For all who are in the midst of suffering, who find their faith withering, who are questioning whether God is at work--or even present--as they wait for something in their lives to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

The Kings of Big Spring

The Kings of Big Spring
Title The Kings of Big Spring PDF eBook
Author Bryan Mealer
Publisher
Pages 384
Release 2018-02-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1250058910

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In Texas blood is bond and oil is king.