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The information is NOT the issue..........2005-03-03
...the issue is that the author has taken her information from others who have taught and written about Faery for *decades* longer than she has, and BLATANTLY stolen it. There has been litigation against her. Even Llewellyn won't publish her books anymore because they are afraid of getting sued. Folklore, Meditation, Folklore, Meditation, and then more Folklore- that is the way to learn the Faery Faith.
I didn't think this was as useful as the first book........2004-11-13
While I don't agree with everything Ms. Stepanich says in her books, I usally try to collect a variety of works in my 'witchy' library. I usually try to look at the stuff I don't agree with and form a solid opinion on *why* I don't agree. It helps me to really find validity in what *I* believe. If you've read the first book in her series, I would recommend the second just for continuity. If you haven't I suggest you start at the beginning as I found that book more useful. I did notice quite a bit of what she said seemed to have come from other authors. Ultimately, I think I would recommend some other authors first. However I think it is also a good idea to be receptive to others' views and ways of doing things.
Spiritual practices.......2002-11-06
As an Irish gent recently relocated to Boston, and having come across the works by the Irish-American author, Ms. Stepanich, I must say that I find her understanding of Irish mysticism to be quite enchanting. I took the time to read the reviews below and found it quite interesting that many of them sounded as if they were written by the same person and that that person just might be one of the other "authors" so favorably highlighted. Such a shame to attempt to slaunder one individual to stroke your own ego! Makes for bad business. My end comment: a lovely spiritual practice is presented in this book and the first one. As an old druid I must say, she has got her finger on the pulse of the Faery more accurately than any other contemporary author.
This is the best book of Irish Traditons ever printed!!!.......2002-11-05
This is the best book of Irish Traditons ever printed!
Want to learn about the Irish shamanic traditons? want to learn about the Irish Gods and Goddesses and how to work with them? Then go to the Irish Faery Faith expert! That is Kisma Stepanich! Go to other traditions and their experts for their ways. This is truly unique and the best writing available! As for some of the negative comments listed below, lets see these poeople do better! It is easy to sit on your duff and criticize, but hey, write something and lets see if you can do better!! Buy it, you won't be sorry!!
Dont waste your $$$.......2002-05-21
I echo a reader from Boston's review.
I *used* to own both these books, one and two. I recycled them, hoping they'd find a useful life. I wouldnt GIVE these away to some unsuspecting person.
Kisma plagerises (and still gets things wrong) is incapable of reasearch, and when questioned on her "facts", replies that the questioner is "mean and too scholarly".
Well then, I'm proud to be in the "mean" camp.
Do not waste your money, especially at the ridiculous prices being asked for here!!
As has been stated, better to spend your hard earned bucks on WY Evans Wentz, RJ Stewart, et al. I own these books, they blow Kisma away. Kisma who?
She's out of print? GOOD!! Best thing that ever happened to this culture raping liar.
Deserves negative 5.
PS, whomever said "those who didnt like it probably didnt use it as intended"?
Puhhhhleese.
Book Description
Brilliant collection includes 50 color-rich pages of beautiful spirals, knots, designs, initials and sketches—perfect for you to trace, copy and use for jewelry, carvings, invitations, announcements. Bonus: stirring Celtic myths!
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Good source for inspiration........2005-01-17
If you are an artist looking for inspiration for your own drawings or craft projects, this book is a nice choice. The illustrations are plentiful, very clear and easy to follow. Some are just black and white line drawings, others are in full color and give you plenty of ideas on how to color your own knotwork designs. Borders, spirals, celtic crosses and decorative initials are all presented, along with a number of Davis' full-page illustrations which illustrate nicely how to work celtic patterns into your own artistic designs. Some basic historical information, myths and legends are included as well, but not in great detail--this book is mostly for the artwork and patterns only.
A lovely and colorful Celtic art resource.......1999-07-24
This is basically a "picture book" of examples of Celtic-style knotwork and images, each rendered in luscious four-color plates.
I find it most useful as a companion to the various Dover Publishing Celtic art books (including stencils, needlework, drawing guides, etc) as a visual reference on "how" to color in the black-and-white examples found in those works.
Otherwise, it's a beautiful book on its own!
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Celtic designs are among the most popular for tattoos on both sides of the Atlantic, a cutting-edge trend that actually began in pre-Roman times to frighten opponents in battle. This stylish reference explores the history of the intricate, evocative designs of the ancient Celts, offering many ideas to help readers create their own images, from icons of Celtic art such as dragons and crosses, to torcs, spirals, and key patterns. Complete step-by-step instructions for designing one-of-a-kind Celtic knotwork patterns are included, as is full information on creating temporary tattoos with henna or body paint. All patterns can be traced and enlarged to adorn any part of the body.
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So so.......2007-05-14
I love celtic tattoos, and I was expecting a book written on the celtic tattoos you find on the people this days. On the other hand, it talks about the tattoos the Kells made on themselves, and not really in a historical way, but in a estetical way (how they look, and what were the variations of their tattoos a thousand years ago). Honestly, it's good paper, but not much printed on it, and the best tattoo you'll see on the book is on the front page.
Unfortunate Purchase..........2006-09-20
I am in the process of going to a Celtic tattoo specialist @ Lucky Fish Tattoo in Santa Barbara, CA. I have 1 celtic tattoo, 10 total tattoos and in a month will have a custom celtic tattoo done. I have been waiting to get this book for a bazillion months and when I finally did I found it to be the biggest waste of time. I never imagined with the great subject matter that a book could be more insignifigant. The designs lack uniqueness in the book, there are few, and they also lack the detail of the meaning. This book trys to take the beautiful and amazing art of tattooing celtic design and verbalize it and use black and white pictures. Wasted $$ and time.
Don't be disappointed.......2003-12-28
This was written as the 3,000 word booklet to accompany the Celtic Tattoo Gift Pack, and as such wasn't aimed at serious tattooists. The aim was to give an idea of the 'look and feel' of celtic art, though trying to do that without any colour seems to miss most of the beauty. The lack of colour or even any celtic art on the cover should be a giveaway.
If the idea of celtic tattoo transfers interests you have a look at the Celtic Tattoo Pack here at amazon.
If you're a serious tattoo artist buy George Bain's 'Celtic Art', the classic bible on the subject and explore the web for the modern variations.
I was given 3 weeks to write and draw this booklet and don't get royalties, so can honestly say that you can do better than this - I did.
dissapointing.......2003-09-11
I was really dissapointed with this book. I have one tattoo and have been trying to design a few more, based on Celtic Art. I bought this book with the intention that it would give a broad array of spiral, circular, and knotwork designs that I could use for inspiration, or even just copy to use.
What I got was a 70 page "book" that looks more like a pamphlet, with about 15 pages total of designs....most of them very common that I've already seen and could have gotten off a cheap internet site.
Not to mention that they are all very small, in black and white, and not clear detail.
There is some useful information on how to draw your own knotwork, which I might use...but I'm going to have to buy another book to get what I want. I should have spent my money elsewhere, and you should too.
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The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
Roger Sherman Loomis
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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona; the Grail itself has been described as the chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper, a stone with miraculous youth-preserving virtues, a vessel containing a man's head swimming in blood; the Grail has been kept in a castle by a beautiful damsel, seen floating through the air in Arthur's palace, and used as a talisman in the East to distinguish the chaste from the unchaste. In his classic exploration of the obscurities and contradictions in the major versions of this legend, Roger Sherman Loomis shows how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian Grail with miraculous powers. Loomis bases his argument on historical examples involving the major motifs and characters in the legends, beginning with the Arthurian legend recounted in the 1180 French poem by Chrtien de Troyes. The principal texts fall into two classes: those that relate the adventures of the knights in King Arthur's time and those that account for the Grail's removal from the Holy Land to Britain. Written with verve and wit, Loomis's book builds suspense as he proceeds from one puzzle to the next in revealing the meaning behind the Grail and its legends.
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Fascinating theory of the Grail.......2005-12-13
After "From Ritual To Romance" caused a sensation (positive and otherwise) among grail scholars in the early part of the 20th century, much scholarship relating to Arthurian myth relates to the discourse over its origins. In "The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol," Roger Loomis convincingly argues (as the title might suggest) that the idea of the Holy Grail has its roots not in apocryphal Christian eschatology but in the Celtic myths of the British Isles. From the knights of the round table to Indiana Jones to Heinrich Himmler and everyone in between, the Grail has been a much sought-after artifact. The only question is "what is it?"
According to Loomis, the Holy Grail is not the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper, but rather a mistranslation of the archaic compound word "sankgreal," meaning "royal blood" rather than "holy grail." This will sound familiar to anyone familiar with the novel "the Da Vinci Code," but this is more or less where the similarities end. Loomis does not view the Grail as an essentially literal object and says that it refers to a mythical bloodline. He further objects to the characterization of the grail as a cup, showing that before it was identified as a chalice, it had previously been portrayed as a flat dish and even a rock (!). He says that myth of the Fisher King lay in Celtic mythology and that Christian symbolism was later attached to it when the Grail myth hit continental Europe from a French monk and scholar living in Wales. The concept of the grail as an ever-replenishing source of sustenance is based on another linguistic misinterpretation that has an archaic Welsh word for "cup" being mistranslated into French as "body," as in the body of Christ (i.e. a communion wafer). Loomis illuminates a consistent series of parallels between the circumstances of Arthurian legend and Celtic myth and shows how overlapping stories in the former are based on archetypal forms from the latter.
Why 4/5? While Loomis presents a compelling theory, it is complex and at times difficult to follow despite Loomis' effort to make his book as accessible as possible to the average reader. Likewise, there is a fair amount of redundancy in this book that might turn some people off. Finally, the theory is so complex and each part is so dependent on the assumption before it that if one aspect is successfully refuted, the whole theory would be in jeopardy. Still, it's a fine book that advances an intriguing hypothesis about one of Western Civilization's most enduring symbols and deserves a thorough examination.
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Celtic designs are shown off in 12 easy-to-apply tattoos in popular blue-black ink. Beautiful designs include mythical creatures, human figures in spirals and weaves, abstracts, and more. Children and adults alike will enjoy decorating arms and legs!
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A comprehensive look at the Grail that reveals its fundamentally Celtic nature beneath layers of Christian interpretations
• Emphasizes the significance of the Quest as an archetype of spiritual seeking
• By the world's preeminent authority on Celtic civilization
The Grail has long excited the imaginations of those seeking to see beyond the world of appearances. No other sacred object has inspired such longing or such dread. The Grail is the archetype of the marvelous object in which each individual can enclose the goal of his own personal quest. For some the goal of this quest has been divine grace or the Philosophers' Stone, for others it is simply a treasure that connects various episodes of the King Arthur legend.
Yet the Grail, as an object that is both close and unapproachable, was not the original focus of these stories. The Celtic tales on which the Grail legend is based emphasize the theme of the Quest. Through his exploration of several versions of this myth that appeared in the Middle Ages, Jean Markale digs deep beneath the Christian veneer of these tales, allowing us to penetrate to the true meaning of the Grail and its Quest, legacies of a rich Celtic spirituality that has nourished the Western psyche for centuries. He also examines how these myths were later used by the Knights Templar, as well as how their links with Alchemy and Catharism played a decisive role in the shaping of Western Hermetic thought.
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Here are 32 of the most mysterious Celtic mandalas, embedded with secrets and symbols. There’s something hypnotic and almost revelatory about filling in your own colorful interpretations of the intricate spiral designs—and as you make the ancient serpent motifs come alive, you may experience the same sense of primordial power that inspired the Celts to treat them as sacred objects.
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Mandalas of the celts.......2007-02-03
The book arrived very quickly and was in excellent conditon. I am very happy with my purchase.
Very basic..........2005-08-12
...and basic is good for kids as an introduction to mandalas. Don't get me wrong, I have had fun and relaxation with Mandalas of the Celts, but I guess I was thinking it would be more complex. I'm not disappointed, just surprised. It is worth what you pay for it.
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Nice, If You need a Coffee Table Book; albeit a tiny one.......2001-09-21
This book is...well...tiny! Don't let the designation "Hardcover" fool you, it is miniscule. While the pictures are nice enough, there is no real depth to the information given. Only one page (about 3" x 4") per picture, so what can you expect. Also, for many of the pictures, the sources are either not given, or incorrect as I found out by looking the same pictures up in more extensive works. This book is fine if you want a very tiny coffee table book, but don't expect much in the way of scholarly, historical enlightenment from it.
So much info in such a little book!.......2000-05-06
For a 5x5 book there is a wealth of info and amazing photos.You get alot of bang for your buck with this book!
Celtic symbols and their significance........2000-04-10
When I first saw this book, my reaction was that such a small book certainly couldn't contain any useful information whatsoever. The book is a mere 5" by 5" by 76 pages (if I counted correctly).
However, after opening it up, I found that it is absolutely masterful in what it does. Most pages contain a picture of a symbol, and the accompanying text explains the significance that the Celtic peoples assigned to a specific symbol. Among the symbols covered are the triple head, the ram, the stag, heads and head hunting, and much more. As an introduction to Celtic symbols, this book probably has no peer.
Excellent Photographs of Ancient Artifacts of the Celts.......1997-05-04
First I rated the book an 8 since it gives only brief accounts of the artifacts. Pictorally, it is easily rated as a 10. It's a mini-book measuring only about 5" x 5" and every couple of pages begins with a new artifact or item. Well done, again with excellent photographs. This is not an in-depth study of the Celts, but an excellent overview for those with a beginning interest in what their culture was composed of
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Celtic Mandala Journal
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The magical Celtic weavings of Welsh artist Jen Delyth come alive in this new journal based on the bestselling Amber Lotus calendar and card series. To inspire thoughtful journaling, short writings in the style of ancient Celtic triads and bardic poetry are interspersed throughout this journal. Jen is highly praised among lovers of Celtic art and lore and is one of the most popular artists in this genre. Celtic Mandala Journal speaks with the undying spirit of the Celtic people.
The journal has blank pages on the left and lined pages on the right. Evenly spaced throughout are selections of Jen's art.
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