Legend Religious

Emerging from the 16 sacred verses of the Rig Veda, Sri Suktam is one of the most ancient and powerful hymns in the world. Tracing our Vedic roots, this spectacular book is replete with the mystical origins of Vedic lores and other untold stories behind each verse of Sri Suktam. Written in the masterful, inimitable style of Om Swami, he continues to reveal the secrets of sadhana.

Introduce your middle and high school students to the bold believers who helped shape the foundation of the Christian faith. Early Church Fathers, part of the inspiring Legends of Faith series by homeschool author Marilyn Boyer, brings Christian history to life through captivating stories of real men who stood firm for Christ in the face of persecution, heresy, and cultural opposition.

Cantor D’Ahma waited his whole life for this day. Born with a gift to walk between worlds, the young realm walker is finally ready to leave his elderly mentor and accept his role as protector and defender of the realms. But mere hours after he steps through his first portal, Cantor discovers that his job will be more dangerous and difficult than he ever imagined. The realms are plagued with crime and cruelty, and even members of the once-noble Realm Walkers Guild can no longer be trusted.

Was there a woman before Eve? The question does not arise from a single text or a single moment in time. It moves across centuries, reappears in different forms, and is often attributed to writings that never posed it in this way. Between what is written and what later came to be told, a space opens—and it is within that space that legend takes hold. This book traces the emergence and development of this idea through the very texts and traditions that shaped it. It begins in the ancient world, where names associated with night, wilderness, and desolation belonged to the religious and ...

In 1885, the Murphy mine struck gold. According to legend, Annie Murphy killed her husband out of greed. Just before she was to be hanged for the murder, she escaped. Now, a hundred years later, there have been sightings of Annie Murphy's "ghost." The Coopers unwittingly become involved in a mystery that finds them caught between the past and the present.

A fantastic adventure of personal growth - set in 16th century Italy. Readers will meet and join young Julio, who is taken on a quest into adulthood - as his grandfather reveals mysterious family secrets.Woven through the story are 12 principles of success including:òWork Hard and God will...

As singular as Corporal York’s heroism and resourcefulness on the battlefield were, they were all the more remarkable in light of his former opposition to war on religious grounds. His was the unshakable conviction and resolve of a convert, having traded, on his knees, a wild, remorseless life for one of sincere Christian piety in the peaceful stillness of a New Year’s dawn nearly four years before. And yet, he was persuaded that spiritual victories must sometimes be gained through wars of the flesh.

Step into the past and explore the lives of remarkable people of faith who made a lasting impact for Christ! This engaging series brings to life the Early Church Fathers, Famous Preachers and Evangelists, Missionaries for Christ, and Famous Hymnwriters — each with a story that continues to encourage us today.

When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed.

When Nani awakens in the jungles of Brazil, she has no idea who she is or how she came to the tiny missionary hospital. When she finally manages to make new friends, the entire group is whisked away to another world where they quickly find themselves under threat from the Hunters of Avoria. In order to unravel her past, Nani is forced to align with one of the young men trying to capture her. But can she trust him? Will Nani forgive him for his past, in order to regain her own?

A failed apprentice. An impossible destiny. A stone that chose him anyway. Oren wakes clutching an unfamiliar stone. Before he can examine it dark spirits drag his older brother into the ancient forest beyond the city walls, and Oren plunges in after him. The truth lies within those woods. The stone is the key that opens the ancient trees to step between worlds. It makes him the Chosen Knight —the one destined to stand against the Verdantian, a tyrant who has ruled from the shadows for over two-thousand years. Oren doesn't want destiny. He just wants his brother back...

When the Infinite became an Infant, and a Demon King conquered Heaven. Discover the ancient saga where size is an illusion and surrender is the ultimate victory. In a world obsessed with power, expansion, and being "big," the ancient Vamana Purana offers a startlingly different wisdom: True greatness lies in making the ego small. The Vamana Purana: Legends of Surrender, Sacrifice, and Salvation is a masterful, narrative retelling of one of India’s most profound spiritual texts. Author Naveen Goyal invites you to step away from the dry academic analysis of scriptures and sit by the fire of...

The Sorcerer Who Became a Saint explores one of the most unusual and enduring legends in Christian memory: the story of St. Cyprian of Antioch, a feared magician whose arts failed before the faith of a young Christian woman named Justina. Cyprian’s legend begins in the world of late antique ritual power, where learning, ambition, hidden knowledge, and spiritual danger often stood dangerously close together. Remembered as a man trained in forbidden arts, Cyprian becomes the figure people seek when ordinary means are not enough. His reputation rests on the belief that unseen forces can be ...

The Aztecs believed offerings of human blood and human lives were necessary to the continued running of the universe. Indeed, in Aztec myths, the gods themselves make sacrifices of their own blood and even of their entire bodies in order to create a universe humans can live in and, in one story, to create humans themselves. To the ancient Aztecs, these practices seemed fitting, necessary, and honorable, helping to connect the world of humans to the divine world of the gods, a universe that in Aztec myth took shape in cycles of creation, destruction, and rebirth.

Most horror stories ask a simple question: What is out there? The Red Tenant asks something far more unsettling: What has been with you all along? 1701. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac sails toward a future he intends to build—a legacy he believes he controls. But control was never his to begin with. Because something older than his ambition has already laid claim to his name… and everything that comes after it. As the ship cuts through the Atlantic, the illusion of progress begins to break apart. Men lose their bearings. Objects refuse to remain contained. Whispers move where no one ...

In the rural heartlands of Tamil Nadu, where the tilled fields meet the untamed forest, stands a protector born of the earth itself. Ayyanar The Village Guardian: Exploring Kaval Deivam History and the Traditional Folk Legends of Tamil Nadu is an evocative exploration into the world of the Kaval Deivam—the sentinel deities who have served as the moral and spiritual backbone of South Indian village life for millennia. This volume serves as a comprehensive bridge between ancient folk traditions and the modern reader, offering a rare glimpse into a culture where the boundary between the ...

Camping in the north woods, fishing, boating and hiking all suddenly become commonplace experiences to the members of the Sugar Creek Gang as they learn about the rites of Chippewa burial ceremonies from a real live Indian. But that is not all that happens as they visit the Indian cemetery.

They told you vampires were fiction. They weren’t. For centuries, entire villages dug up their dead. Not out of superstition. Out of necessity. The bodies weren’t decomposing. They were bloated. Pink. Bleeding. And the living were dying—one by one. This is not a book of legends. It’s a forensic dossier. Inside, you’ll find the suppressed reports, the burned records, the rituals too dangerous to speak aloud. You’ll walk through the graveyards of Eastern Europe, where the soil was salted and the corpses were staked. You’ll sit in the courtrooms where the dead were tried and ...

Ancient evil invades the land of Second Eden, endangering the existence of that alternate dimension as well as every soul on Earth. And two teenagers have the only means to stop them.

J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life, for many years: orphaned and poor, his guardian forbade him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in love with, and he went through the horrors of the First World War. An intensely private and brilliant scholar, he spent over 50 years working on the languages, history, peoples, and geography of Middle-earth,