Describes life among the Mbuti Pygmies of Equatorial Africa, including their customs, clothing, shelter, food, hunting techniques, and culture

Children of the Forest

History

Duffy, Kevin

Africa

Dodd, Mead

Christian Solar Symbolism and Jesus the Sun of Justice

This pioneering study of Christian sun symbolism describes how biblical light motifs were taken up with energy in the early Church. Kevin Duffy argues that, living in a world of 24/7 illumination, we need to reconnect with the sun and its light to appreciate the meaning of light in the Bible and Christian tradition. With such a retrieval we can appreciate Pope Francis's insistence that, like the moon, the Church does not shine with its own light, and assess the claim that the Eucharist is to be celebrated 'Ad Orientem', that is towards the rising sun in the East. Liturgy, architecture, poetry and the writings of saints and theologians such as Augustine, Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, and Thomas Traherne offer abundant resources for a much needed ressourcement.\nWhile Christ was preached as the True Sun among sun-worshipping Aztecs, and the consecrated host was placed in a solar monstrance on Baroque altars, in the modern era solar themes have been neglected. In this accessible work, the author suggests that we rebalance a spiritual symbolism that has over-emphasised darkness and cloud at the expense of light and sun. He proposes a creative retrieval of the traditional title of Christ as the Sun of Justice. This title blends the personal, the social and the cosmic/ecological, and speaks powerfully to a secularising era that contemporaries Friedrich Nietzsche and Thérèse of Lisieux both described as one where the sun does not shine.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

T&T Clark

This intimate study portrays the hunter-gatherer Mbuti pygmies of Zaire. Kevin Duffy describes how these forest nomads, who are as adapted to the forest as its wildlife, gratefully acknowledge their beloved home as the source of everything they need: food, clothing, shelter, and affection. Looking on the forest in deified terms, they sing and pray to it and call themselves its children. With his patience and knowledge of their ways, Duffy was accepted by these, the world's smallest people, and invited to participate in the cycle of their lives from birth to death. This book is an excellent companion piece to Duffy's 50-minute film, Pygmies of the Rainforest, which was shown on PBS's science series, NOVA, as "BaMiki BaNdula". A 28-minute version (Children of the Forest) is also available.

Children of the Forest: Life with the Mbuti Pygmies

Robert_Hale

1999 Fall River Press hardcover, 14th printing. Kevin Duffy (Children of the Forest). "Who were the Celts" documents the long reach and complex struggles of the Celts. It also details the achievements of their many-faceted culture, whose influence has been felt in art, literature, music, science and technology, warfare and politics. - Amazon

Who Were the Celts? Everything you ever wanted to know about the Celts 1000 B.C. to the present

Fall_River_Press

This concise 3,000-year history of the Celts is packed with facts never before assembled together in a single volume. Much of this information cannot be found even in previous books written about the Celts. While of obvious interest to the 40 million Amer

Who Were The Celts?: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Celts 1000 B.C. to the Present

Europe

Heritage Books, Inc.

Children of the Forest: Africa's Mbuti Pygmies

Waveland Pr Inc.

Going Back

This epic begins in England where Kiron Griffith, an American graduate student at Cambridge University, makes the staggering discovery that inherited fossil memory causes him to experience life alternatively in two widely-apart times and places: as a man in today&acute;s England...and as a woman ancestor in Africa&acute;s primeval past. As a woman Kiron lives in a cave as a member of a matriarch-led clan of African hunter gatherers from which she eventually flees to lead a polyandrous life with two mates of her own, each man of a different race. She is challenged to make fire, re-invents pottery, the bow and arrow, and makes an iron knife from meteor fragment. She is captured by pygmies and later raises a cheetah as a friend and hunting ally. Eventually alone and defenseless she must give birth on the open savanna surrounded by hyenas which wait instinctively for her moment of greatest vulnerability.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Xlibris, Corp.

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