Hello. My name is Tim Cookson. I am an Alcoholic. I was able to finish this book while in recovery. It was an amazing experience to be able to complete this, and bring this tale to you. I am grateful for my sobriety to this very day. There may be a few typos that made it through, and that's ok. I am pleased with each flaw, as even flawed it is still complete. Each copy serves as a reminder that we can overcome. Even if it is one day at a time. We all have an epic journey of our own! I am now pleased to bring the epic journey of Haldrik to you. Haldrik is a teenager on a fascinating world at the end of his stay at a military installation. This is no ordinary installation as this particular one is ran by witches. While he is there he discovers he is descended from a race of warriors long thought extinct. This discovery leaves him a wanted man facing military organizations looking to buy new powerful recruits, and witches who believe he holds the key to immortality. Can Haldrik survive on a planet on the verge of destruction? Can Haldrik survive knowing what he really is? Venture into a fascinating new world in Book 1 of 4 in The Haldrik Chronicles.

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Aeres is a new setting for your adventurous 5th Edition campaign. The Chronicles of Aeres, the title of this guide, represents the histories, mythologies, heroes, villains, and struggles of this mystical realm. Aeres is filled to the brim with nostalgia, and its sensibilities are decidedly old school. It's a land that hearkens back to a classical age of fantasy-an age of larger-than-life heroes, true, but also a time when hapless farmhands and folksy Hobbits were coaxed into adventure by wizards, prophecies, and promises of magical treasure. For those who seek their fortune in this realm, the result is often peril and adventure-but just as often magic and charm. The Chronicles of Aeres World Guide will contain everything necessary for a Dungeon Master to create a fleshed out, action-packed adventure within the setting; in addition to dozens of new fantastical destinations to explore and colorful characters to meet, this guide offers both new and experienced players a full kit of tools to create a folkloric adventurer fully immersed in the storybook atmosphere of the realm.

Attilio Mastrocinque explains the mysteries of Mithras in a new way, as a transformation of Mazdean elements into an ideological and religious reading of Augustus' story. The author shows that the character of Mithras played the role of Apollo in favoring Augustus' victory and the birth of the Roman Empire.

Einzelfund - Stadt/Vicius/Oppidum - Grab/Gräberfeld.

Just hundred years after the first edition of Albrecht Dietrich's Eine Mithrasliturgie (Leipzig 1903; 1923), the present book offers a complete new edition of so complex a text. It provides the Greek text, an English translation, a punctual introduction, an extensive commentary, an index of Greek words and of the various voces magicae, and, finally, also an appendix, with photographic reproductions of the papyrus. ... Not only Hans Dieter Betz is one of the most gifted scholars in the domain of primeval Christianity and Hellenistic religions, but he already devoted to the Mithras Liturgy a monographic essay, which is here enriched and largely supplemented. We particularly appreciated how Betz deals with the critical debate which spread from Dietrich's book (in particular the criticism put forward by one of the most important scholars of Mithraism, the Belgian Franz Cumont) and how he sets Dietich in the historical and cultural milieu of his age.Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini auf www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de

The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.

Roger Beck, a world authority on Mithraism, brings together his major writings on the Mysteries of Mithras in the context of the culture and religions of imperial Rome. In these studies he opens new vistas on myth making, ritual, symbolism, the role of astrology in the cult, recently discovered Mithraic monuments and artefacts, and the emergence of Mithraism and Christianity concurrently in the first century. Beck offers new introductions to his thematically framed groups of writings and adds six entirely new essays published here for the first time. These essays link his research to contemporary studies in cognitive science of religion and anthropology of religion. This collection will appeal particularly to scholars exploring contemporary aspects in anthropology of religion, astronomy and astrology, cults and myths, images and symbols, as well as traditional scholars of Greco-Roman antiquity and Christian origins.