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Staff of Laurel, Staff of Ash : Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Nature Myth, Paperback / softback Book

Staff of Laurel, Staff of Ash : Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Nature Myth Paperback / softback

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At the crossroads of nature and the human imagination, Earth is sentient, fertile, and eloquent.

When ancient goddesses, outcasts, heroes, and poets speak, they speak on her behalf to reveal living myths that first enchanted sacred landscapes.

Their primal stories emerge from wilderness and rise from buried libraries to jolt us awake.

We meet a lone goddess battling fifty giants, a beguiling wife who is secretly a serpent, a radiant lyre about to sing her own poetry, and an ogre whose heart is his forest.

When oaks and rivers call for justice, when furies and monsters counter king and plow, let us turn our ear to hear.

As we listen, mythic fragments lead us from marble palaces to nymph-haunted gardens, on a quest that teems with strange immortals.

Along the way, a goddess of desolation, a mistress of animals, ash tree spirits, and a trickster water god appear as guides.

Primeval green wisdom emerges from abyss, forest, and borderland, hidden in myths we almost lost forever, in ancient images that say things we no longer can.

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