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A Little Geomantic Guidebook by Alanna
Moore.
Published in e-format,
as a PDF file via email or
sent on a CD-ROM:
The book's cover picture: Wojtech Puchalski at
a sacred spring in Poland where the dowsing class connected with
a powerful water deva. Orbs in the photo (taken on a wet day)
were astounding, but not surprising!
'Water Spirits of the World
- from nymphs to nixies, serpents
to sirens'
Alanna Moore's book of August 2008
has 60 jam packed A4 pages with lots of beautiful colour pictures.
In this book you will discover the amazing
world of water spirits in all their forms, with special emphasis
on Australian, New Zealand and Irish examples.
Table of Contents of 'Water Spirits
of the World'
1. Introduction
2. Who are the devas and spirits
of water? Nature spirits, gods and goddesses, the many 'species'
of spirits of water, divine feminine.
3. Amphibious creators and storm
gods. Ancient gods & goddesses of water and weather.
4. Serpent creator spirits.
The sacred serpent as the spirit of creation and wisdom, primordial
serpent spirits in Africa and Egypt.
5. Serpents of Mesopotamia and
the Bible. Origins of the fear and demonisation of snakes,
propaganda and the snake goddess.
6. Serpents in India and the Americas.
Seasonal nagas, snake fertility goddesses, Buddhist nagas,
Central American serpents, Quetzalcoatl, and serpent mounds in
north America.
7. Chinese snakes and dragons.
From creator spirits to rain maker and sea dragons.
8. Dragon lines and dragon dowsing.
Discovering and living with the dragon forces.
9. Dragons and serpents of Europe.
Ancient rock art, Scandinavian world serpent, English monuments;
Greek horned serpents & Python at Delphi; European dragons
& their subjugators.
10. Irish serpents. St Patrick,
serpent eggs, 'Devil's Mother', Lough Derg pilgrimage, battles
with serpents, and a story of a horse-eel.
11. Australian Rainbow Serpents.
Dreamtime creator spirits, varieties in northern Australia, Mindi
in Victoria, West Australia's Woggal, the Rainbow Serpent today.
12. Water and sovereignty goddesses.
From ancient Indo-European mother goddesses to current devis
in Ireland, Java and Bali.
13. Sun deities and hot springs.
Underground
sun, sun/water goddesses of Ireland & Germany, Sulis of Bath,
eclipse of the sun beings.
14. Sacred rivers and their deities.
From votive offerings to rivers, to river goddesses of Ireland,
Britain, India and Nigeria.
15. European sirens and nixes.
From sensuous silkies, to the dangers of wild river nixes.
16. Water horses. Horse deities,
sea gods, war goddesses, solar associations, kelpies, nuggles
and the 'Great Pest'.
17. Lake beasties of the world.
The classic Loch Ness 'monster', stone effigies,'Nessie'
in other Scottish lochs, and in Sweden, Russia, South Africa
and China.
18. Australasian water beasties.
Remnant plesiosaurus? Siren yawk yawks. New Zealand's human/crocodile
beings - the taniwhas.
19. Water shrines and Holy Wells.
Neolithic water temples; Stonehenge; sacred springs and the custom
of leaving offerings to water there.
20. Spirit of Water in Christianity.
The Holy Spirit, angels 'troubling the waters', eradicating well
and fountain worship, Holy Water.
21. Irish well pilgrimages. Of
saints and well 'patterns', sacred festival dates, health cures
and keeping the fairies happy.
22. Restoring well traditions in
Malvern. A sculptor returns to her home town and institutes
restoration & celebration of sacred springs there. Dowsing
the waters and spirits of place. (This chapter is reproduced
in the 40th issue of Geomantica.)
23. The Spirit of Water today.
Who is the water spirit known as Mother Mary? Her apparitions
at wells and springs, and in Coogee, Sydney.
24. Meetings with river deities.
Meeting spirits of the River Thames & Irish river serpents.
25. Honouring water. Developing
spiritual relationship with water, perceiving the devas, and
ways to honour the waters.
26. References for each chapter.
Three Book Reviews
of
'Water Spirits of the World' by
Alanna Moore,
published by Python Press, August
2008.
1. Reviewed by Morgana for Wiccan
Rede, Lammas 2009 (Holland).
"...60 jam packed pages with
lots of beautiful colour pictures. In this book you will discover
the amazing world of water spirits in all their forms, with special
emphasis on Australia, New Zealand and Irish examples.
As a dowser Alanna has spent many
years working with nature spirits and coming to understand how
they interact with the Earth. In this book, which is a follow-up
to her book The Wisdom of Water' , she expands on her knowledge
and research with water spirits. From "amphibious creators
and storm gods" to "Australasian water beasties"
Alanna uses sources from biblical texts to her own observations
at sacred wells to explore the world of water spirits.
This is a wonderful resource book
and well worth buying at only 8 euro as a pdf file by email."
2. Reviewed by Anne Guest
for The Gatekeeper magazine, issue
26, UK.
"Water is a subject that I find endlessly
fascinating and it is very clear that Alanna does too. Her joyful
travelogue of water spirits around the world has been a journey
inspired by love. Alanna begins by posing four questions: who
are the water spirits? What is their true spiritual nature? What
functions do they hold as landscape beings? And how is it possible
for them to be perceived today? Her answers to these questions
are served up in a wonderful hot pot of information, personal
experience and practical advice on how to connect with water
spirits. Alanna has cast her net very wide indeed, hauling in
Indian, British, Australian, Irish, South American and Middle
Eastern water deities both from the past and the present. It
is an impressive catch
"[A] wonderfully illustrated
celebration of water spirits of the world."
3. Reviewed by Martha Heeren for the
Dowsers Society of NSW Newsletter April 2009.
"This new book provides a comprehensive
collection of information and a rich insight into the world of
water spirits and their manifestations and descriptions in the
folklore, myths and legends of cultures around the world. Serpents,
dragons, water goddesses and wells, sun gods and hot springs
and water beasties aropund the world are all included as well
as pilgrimages and the place of water in religion...
If we learn to reconnect with water spirits
we may be able to help enhance this valuable resource. The magical
beings that operae in different dimensions were understood and
honoured in other eras and leaning more about their history in
different cultures is a good way for us to learn to reconnect
and work with these beings. Included in the book are some wonderful
insights into dowsing with those spirits o learn from them.
This well researched and informative book
is a great resource to help us to better understand and work
with the devic world."
Available as a PDF file by email for
$12.
Also available as a CD-ROM posted
for $15.
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