The Lalibela Handbook

Author: Damien Pryor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958134194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
This guide to the famous rock churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia is the only book that explores the deeper mystical purpose implied in its artworks and cultural context. *Tour these extraordinary underground sanctuaries, and see how to read their architecture * Learn of rare reports about Lalibela from travelers in earlier centuries * Read actual texts from the Life of King Lalibela, describing how his 3-day mystical sleep inspired him to build these ten buildings Discover: * Ancient Egyptian sun-god beliefs embedded in Lalibela's cosmic view of Christianity * The Church of the Virgin Mary is actually a sanctuary dedicated to a new form of the Egyptian goddess Isis * A carving of Three Beasts, opponents of spirituality, echoing Dante's Divine Comedy and the Egyptian Book of the Dead * Apocalyptic carvings kept secret in the crypt, according to travelers' reports * Christ as a sun god, and carvings of the solar Akeru deity from Egypt * Allusions to the Odes of Solomon and to Melchizedek * Medhanie Alem; the sanctuary dedicated to the global Community of Goodwill * Why rumours about Lalibela and the Templars are false.

A Guide to Lalibela

Author: Milena Batistoni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cave churches
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description

A Guide to Lalibela

Author: Milena Batistoni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description

A Guide to Lalibela

Author: Milena Batistoni
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789994486601
Category : Cave churches
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

Author: Peter Mitchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199569886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1077

Book Description
This Handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.

A Comprehensive Guide to Lalibela

Author: Milena Batistoni
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789994486601
Category : Cave churches
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description

Area Handbook for Ethiopia

Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 658

Book Description

Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media

Author: De Ascaniis, Silvia
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178897008X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Exploring the impact of the rise of digital media over the last few decades, this timely Handbook highlights the major role it plays in preserving and protecting heritage as well as its ability to promote and support sustainable tourism at heritage sites. Particularly relevant at this time due to the diffusion of smartphones and use of social media, chapters look at the experience and expectation of being ‘always on’, and how this interacts with heritage and tourism.

The Storytime Handbook

Author: Nina Schatzkamer Miller
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603537
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Fresh, fun ideas for children's storytime fill this book. The author, a long-time storytime facilitator, has put together 52 weekly themes plus additional plans for holidays, all with detailed instructions for talking about the theme and choosing the books, crafts, songs, poems, games and snacks. Each storytime idea is illustrated with photographs of a suggested craft and snack for easy reference. Libraries, bookstores, preschools and parents alike can use this book to offer themed storytimes that include discussion, literature, art, music, movement and food. Options are provided for each storytime, so the ideas can be used year after year.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages

Author: Ronny Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191044245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1425

Book Description
This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.