Here is an exciting, innovative study of ancient European religious practice and practitioners.The Aldhouse-Greens' entertaining and informative book represents a search, a voyage of discovery in which evidence is sought that there were individuals living in Europe from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman period who believed they were able to liaise with the spirit-world through the medium of trance and who perceived themselves to be part-human and part-animal. The authors support their argument with diverse and rich ...
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Here is an exciting, innovative study of ancient European religious practice and practitioners.The Aldhouse-Greens' entertaining and informative book represents a search, a voyage of discovery in which evidence is sought that there were individuals living in Europe from the Stone Age to the early post-Roman period who believed they were able to liaise with the spirit-world through the medium of trance and who perceived themselves to be part-human and part-animal. The authors support their argument with diverse and rich evidence, including the 30,000-year-old lion-human ivory figurines found in south-western Germany, which may represent monsters seen by shamans in altered states of consciousness; the newly discovered and spectacular Nebra sky-disc, which depicts the sun, moon and the Pleiades, indicating that Bronze Age shamans were using highly sophisticated objects to explore the heavens; and the 'Doctor's Grave' from southeast England, which suggests that a Late Iron Age chieftain, who may have been a shaman, was sent to the Otherworld equipped with hallucinogens, medical kit and divining tools.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 240pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear to bottom edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild rubbing and shelfwear.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Fine hardcover first U.S. Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean dark brown cloth boards with blind-stamped dolphins on cover, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean, with clean orange endpapers. No names, writing or marks. With 134 illustrations, 24 in color. 240 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket NOT a library book. See our scans London: Thames & Hudson, 2005 First English Edition. Celtic Shamanism and it's and pre-Celtic Goddess manifestations. Both academic and inspired Great color illustrations. 240pp. Collectible in unclipped dust jacket like new. Celtic Studies Since 1977 We wrap our books carefully and with respect for the book's dust jacket. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans Cover and Table of Contents.