Dragon Shaman
Long ago an Irish Priestess was defiled, and the dragon that had become her protector laid a terrible curse upon the children of the man responsible. Too late he realized that his beloved had already conceived, and so not only was a cursed child brought into his keeping, but his own curse could not be broken until certain terms were met to mend the wrong.Time passes through the generations, and one half of the cure is born in a distant land, only to suffer the same fate as all the other women of the O?Drake clan. But something is different about this cycle. Having been reborn into two separate yet concurrent incarnations, Drake has the power to set things right and correct two wrongs. A voice calls a young woman to cross the Pacific into yet another land.Every girl yearns for adventure, romance and magic in their lives. BlowingWind had all of these and lost them, just as she was starting on what she thought would be the greatest adventure of her life. Now, she is being called out by the forces of life and undertaking the journey into adulthood alone. However, journeys always seem to entail healing, and a quest to find her lost love turns into something even greater.Take Ryu is a boisterous magma ryu trapped for five years beneath Mt. Fuji for the crime of becoming too engrossed in human affairs. Upon the end of his imprisonment he emerges to find a strange and undefended shaman woman within his territory. Falling prey once more to his kind heart he too is swept up in the threads of a destiny that neither human nor dragon could have ever believed.A story of dragons, healing, cultural mixing, love, and the pursuit of the Soul and Self, this is only the first book in the adventures of a very unlikely couple. Watch for ?Dragon Shaman: The Smoky Mirror? next!
Dragon Shaman
Dragon Shaman, Book One: Taming The Blowing Wind can be compared to a blending of Tolkein, J.K. Rowling, and Miyazki's Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke combined with the wonder of a child listening to Native American myth and tales of the Japanese Kami, with a bit of Celtic Fairytale elements. It is sure to be a hit with lovers of dragons, fantasy, supernatural/paranormal, and romance.BlowingWind, a young woman of Native American and Celtic descent, falls in love with Obsidian, a boy she at first believes to be human but later discovers on the night of her 18th birthday to be the guardian spirit of Medicine Lake, near the sacred Mount Shasta in California. The night before her High School graduation he meets with a bad end, setting her journey of self discovery in motion which ultimately takes her away from everything that she knows and to Japan. There, as she searches for what the soul of Obsidian wishes her to find at the foot of Mount Fuji she meets with Ryu, a spirit of the mountain and bearing a striking resemblance to the soul she is searching for. By the time these two meet her own spirit is shattered, and it is up to Ryu and a mysterious concurrent incarnation of Obsidian to begin the process of healing her spirit and mind. However, she has her own destiny that waits to be fulfilled, and spirits from both her old and new lives have tests to administer during everything.Unlike the print version of the book, the ebook will have a few images that have been done by the author herself, and the story of how Dragon Shaman, Ryu, and BlowingWind came to be. Also included will be the songs used in the story itself the way they were meant to be seen, instead of hidden within the dialog.
Taming the Wind of Desire
Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits—the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore—in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships—among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.
The Taming of the Ruffian Hero 11 Anthology
Do you believe in destiny£¿ Zhao Yuan made a bet with the guys in his dorm. If he successfully made Chen Wanxin, the most attractive girl in their university, his girlfriend within 3 months, the guys would give him their No.23 jersey with Jordan's personal signature on it. Chen Wanxin found Lin Wenxi, a roommate of Zhao Yuan, somewhat attractive when she first met this elegant pretty boy in the university. One night, when the students gathered and played games, Chen Wanxin asked Lin Wenxi to kiss her, but Lin Wenxi just left her on the spot alone in front of everyone and put her in an awkward situation. After that, when Zheng Kai asked Chen Wanxin to be his girlfriend, Chen Wanxin made a deal with him. ¡°Help me bend Lin Wenxi. Make him fall for you and then dump him." Gradually, Chen Wanxin found herself falling in love with Zhao Yuan, but to her surprise, Zhao Yuan really seemed to have a thing for Lin Wenxi. She had no choice but to turn to Mo Qian, a mysterious and powerful man who had some connection with her family. Because of the interference of Mo Qian, more and more dust-laden secrets were revealed.
