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  • Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Moon

    by E L Hunter ...
    In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries.Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "Bells-Her-Cheeks." She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, and the ... Read more

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  • Enchanted Britain and Ireland: A Complete History of Magic in the British Isles

    by E L Hunter ...
    A Bronze Age sword is dropped into the Thames as an offering to powers beneath the water. A Roman citizen scratches a curse onto lead and casts it into a sacred spring. A medieval monk copies a spell for summoning angels into the margins of a psalter. A seventeenth-century farmer buries a bottle of nails and urine beneath his hearth to break a witch's curse. A modern Druid raises her arms to greet ... Read more

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  • Banpo: Life and Legacy of a Neolithic Village in the Wei River Valley

    by E L Hunter ...
    China's textbooks know exactly what Banpo was: a peaceful, matriarchal clan of millet farmers standing at the dawn of Chinese civilization. The site itself tells a stranger, less tidy story.More than six thousand years ago, a farming community on the Wei River terrace near modern Xi'an built round houses around a large central building, dug a wide ditch to enclose their homes, fired painted ... Read more

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  • Matilda of Flanders: The Wife of William the Conqueror and the Woman Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Myth

    by E L Hunter ...
    The wife of William the Conqueror sent gold, in secret, to a man in arms against him.The man was her son.When the Conqueror discovered it, he raged that he had trusted her with his treasury and with justice throughout all his dominions. Matilda of Flanders did not deny it. She told him she would gladly die if it would bring her son back from the grave.He did nothing to her at all. This was a man ... Read more

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  • The Hollow Hills: The Gods, Heroes and Otherworld of Irish Myth

    by E L Hunter ...
    Most books about Irish myth are either too dry to enjoy or too eager to believe. This one refuses both.The Morrígan washing the armour of men about to die. Cú Chulainn lashed upright to a standing stone so he could meet death on his feet. A whole race of gods retreating underground to become the fairy-folk. These are among the greatest stories Europe ever told — and Ireland left the earliest and ... Read more

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  • Mazu: Empress of Heaven and Sea

    by E L Hunter ...
    Nobody sets out to invent a god. So how does it happen?In the tenth century, on a poor island off the Fujian coast, a shaman's daughter named Lin Moniang went into the sea after a drowning sailor and never came back. She was barely out of her teens, and she should have been forgotten within a generation.Instead, the fishermen who mourned her began to see her: a girl in red robes moving over the ... Read more

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  • Early Medieval Wales: From Roman Collapse to English Conquest (410 - 1282 CE)

    by E L Hunter ...
    Everyone knows 1066. The Norman Conquest. The Domesday Book. Medieval England.But while England was being conquered, Wales was fighting back. And winning.For two centuries after the Normans took England, Wales remained independent. Welsh kings united the country, created legal codes more progressive than England's, and forced English kings to recognize Welsh sovereignty. For 900 years, Wales ... Read more

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  • Borderlands and Bloodlines: Marcher Lords, Welsh Lords, and the Making of the Medieval Frontier (c. 1066–1300)

    by E L Hunter ...
    In 1210, King John had Maud de St Valéry and her eldest son walled up in a royal castle and left to starve. Offered the chance to buy her family's peace by surrendering her son as a hostage, she had refused, sending word that she would not entrust her child to a king who had murdered his own nephew. Her husband William de Braose — once the most powerful Marcher lord in Wales — died in exile in ... Read more

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  • Roman Wales and the End of Roman Britain (43 - 410 CE)

    by E L Hunter ...
    Why did Wales stay Welsh?Rome conquered the region in brutal campaigns that lasted decades. Rome occupied it with more soldiers per square mile than almost anywhere else in the empire. Rome ruled it for more than three hundred years.And yet Wales never became Roman.No villas. No towns. No Latin. Just forts, roads, and a population that outlasted the empire by staying exactly who they'd always been ... Read more

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  • Artemis: Goddess of the Wild

    by E L Hunter ...
    Ancient yet startlingly relevant, Artemis defies simple categorization. This groundbreaking exploration reveals why the virgin huntress has outlasted her Olympian counterparts in her appeal to the modern imagination.For the first time, this study bridges the divide between classical scholarship and contemporary relevance, tracing Artemis's evolution from prehistoric hunting cults through classical ... Read more

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  • Chains and Laurels: Slavery and the Making of Ancient Greece

    The Price of Civilization, #1

    by E L Hunter ...
    Series Book 1 - The Price of Civilization
    Chains and Laurels: Slavery and the Making of Ancient GreeceThe civilisation that gave the world the word "freedom" was built and sustained by people who had none. At the height of classical Athens, perhaps one person in three was a slave — and the democracy, the philosophy, and the Parthenon itself could not have lasted a day without them.Chains and Laurels tells Greece's story with the enslaved ... Read more

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  • The World the Mongols Made: Conquest, Commerce, and Connection (1206–1368)

    by E L Hunter ...
    How do you rule a continent? With paper, horses, and pass‑tablets you can carry.From 1206 to 1368, the Mongols built a logistics state: relay stations with fresh mounts, sealed edicts that crossed languages, state‑merchant partnerships that kept goods and credit moving, and money that worked across borders. Envoys and artisans crossed Eurasia on schedules; friars debated at Karakorum; a monk from ... Read more

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