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Arctic Bibliography
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Encyclopedia of Imaginary and Mythical Places
The heavens and hells of the world's religions and the "far, far away" legends cannot be seen or visited, but they remain an integral part of culture and history. This encyclopedia catalogs more than 800 imaginary and mythological lands from all over the world, including fairy realms, settings from Arthurian lore, and kingdoms found in fairy tales and political and philosophical works, including Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Atlantis. From al A'raf, the limbo of Islam, to Zulal, one of the many streams that run through Paradise, entries give the literary origin of each site, explain its cultural context, and describe its topical features, listing variations on names when applicable. Cross-referenced for ease of use, this compendium will prove useful to scholars, researchers or anyone wishing to tour the unseen landscapes of myth and legend.
Hollow
An NPR Best Book of the Year, Hollow is the story of a professor whose life is unended after an unspeakable tragedy. When Oliver Bonds, a revered religious studies professor at the University of Texas, loses his toddler son and undergoes intense legal scrutiny over his involvement, grief engulfs him completely. His life as he knows it is over; Oliver loses his wife, home, and faith. Three years after his son's death, Oliver lives in a shack without electricity and frequents the soup kitchen where he used to volunteer. It's only when befriended by Lyle, a con artist with a passion for theories of Hollow Earth, that Oliver begins to reengage with the world. Oliver too becomes convinced that th...
Lemuria
Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. One of hopes and dreams that housed a race of beings that arrived from foreign planets and from which sprang humanity, religion, civilization, and our modern world. It was called Lemuria and it was all fake. What began as a theoretical land bridge to explain the mystery of lemurs on Madagascar quickly got hijacked to become the evolutionary home of humankind, the cradle of spirituality, and then the source of cosmological wonders. Abandoned by science as hokum, Lemuria morphed into a land filled with ancient, ...
A Journey to the Earth's Interior
This strange book expounds quite convincingly the theory that the earth is hollow. Interestingly, this book was published well after scientific experiments had proven quite conclusively that the idea was not valid. The discovery of the North pole four years earlier also challenged the author. This accomplishment dented the assertion made by author Marshall Gardner that the pole was the site of an entrance into the earth's depths.
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Mondi sotterranei
Un mondo dentro il mondo rappresenta uno dei concetti più antichi della mitologia, che fa parte dell’immagine archetipica di Gaia, la Madre Terra. Molti dei nostri remoti antenati narravano o ascoltavano storie sui loro progenitori, germinati nel ventre oscuro delle caverne della Madre Terra per poi nascere al luminoso e freddo mondo della superficie. Essi sapevano che, al momento della morte, sarebbero tornati tra le braccia della Madre Terra. I mondi sotterranei che Kafton-Minkel esplora nel suo saggio sono a volte rivelatori, talora divertenti, altre volte assolutamente assurdi, ma possono mostrare ai lettori che amano essere portati lontano dalla propria immaginazione, come il desiderio di modellare l’universo e la nostra stessa natura in una forma compatta e comprensibile possa farci credere strane cose e accennare a tutto ciò che l’umanità ancora non conosce della natura e di se stessa.
