Khia Marin

Thirteen Lunations

A Celebration of Time

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Produktbeschreibung

A mosaic of written pieces, this book has been difficult to classify for what unifies its various materials is our yearly journey through the seasons - not a convention yet established in the traditions of authorship. To call it fiction would be a mistake (though parts of it are as juicy as the best in that genre) for every word of it is true. A closer look reveals that this as much luni-solar calendar as it is book (a collection of writings on the calendar's opposing, right-hand pages), for what's shown on the left-hand pages is a sample luni-solar calendar with a detailed explanation about how it works, each sporting an interesting and appropriate factoid (mostly to do with space or the origins of names). The book portion - seasonally appropriate and including holiday traditions, folklore, bits of history, more starry science and/or lore, a few recipes, and even a game includes an excavation into the origins of our current calendar and takes a peek at what's known of a European one in use previously. Digging even deeper, it explores the names of our current weekdays and the old Anglish gods behind them, inadvertently drawing back a small part of the curtain shrouding Europe's earth-friendly roots. The whole collection was born of the author's longing for a more organic way of telling time. A carton of the author's not-quite-finished books en route to her disappeared from the San Francisco post office months prior to publication date, only to surface later for sale as "used" on eBay and from a number of sellers at Amazon. When messaged, one withdrew the offering, one acknowledged having many sources and that pinning down what came from where was difficult and two ("Honest" Abe and The BookMonger, both having the same New Jersey address) responded by lowering the price to almost nothing. Have you ever wondered how they could sell so many books so cheaply? Now we know!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 13th Lunation Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9798987775400
• Artikelnr.: 68768749

Autorenporträt

Khia Marin has been interested in lunar cycles as they progress through the year (how they differ, what their names mean, how well the names reflect what's happening locally) ever since she was a child. Reading became a favorite activity very early on, beginning with horses and progressing to Native Americans - an interest which would one day be well satisfied, both as the roommate of one of Wallace Black Elk's students (sharing a lovely old home with eight others directly across from San Diego's Balboa Park) and the guest of a medicine man's family living in the Navaho Nation. She has studied and employed a variety of healing modalities, particularly during her middle years, and works now as a caregiver, living in Central California with her high school sweetheart and cat. Their daughter has chosen similarly nurturing work (helping autistic children learn basic skills for life), but Khia's diverse interests also include dream work, sociology (her B.A. in Sociology comes from San Diego State, from which she graduated cum laude) and old traditions from all over (the latter being further sparked by early visits to renaissance fairs; she soon became a regular participant of these). She has lived in Alaska, in the mountains, and even on a boat. While in Ireland, friends described her as a Gaelic scholar (and she has studied this beautiful language for several years), but a questioner is what she really is. She values those who are curious enough to question and brave enough to care.