Fourteen-year-old Kyra has always felt different, but lately even her brother Karne has noticed her acting strangely--especially when she's near the ceremonial sacred stones that help guide and protect her village. When the villainous priest, Wardyke...
Etheldreda, Princess of East Anglia, Queen of Northumbria and Abbess of Ely, was a remarkable woman who lived in restless, violent times when old beliefs were dying and new ones were struggling to emerge. Pagan clashed with Christian as the seven kin...
In Celtic myth, the mixture of wise spiritual teaching and dramatic imagery creates new, potent, and disturbing visions. This selection of eleven storiessome more than 3,000 years old focuses on the women of ancient British mythology, from the formid...
Essential to life on earth since the beginning of time, trees hold a special place in our collective consciousness: rooted in the earth, reaching skyward, nourished by the elements, and enlivened by the sap running through their veins, they provide a...
"...it was unnatural, against the laws of Maat, that a woman should become a man. Surely they must see that?"Ast looked around. The admiration and awe on every face was evident. She and her son seemed an absurd alternative to that magnificent golden ...
Who dares challenge the might of the Priests of Amun?A group of people are drawn inexorably together, and impelled by forces unknown to travel to Egypt to investigate what happened to the pharaoh Akhenaten who lived more than three thousand years bef...
In ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen, the strong and beautiful Nefertiti, are engaged in a dramatic battle against the wealthy, corrupt and dangerously powerful priests of Amun. Haunting and f...
A sequel to the "Guardians of the Tall Stones" series.From beyond time and space they come to walk the earth once more - the Guardians of the Tall Stones, the Lords of the Sun... Deva is the beautiful and headstrong daughter of the High Priest of the...
Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life â€" not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamu...
There was a planet once called Earth. Its people, scattered like seeds before the wind, came to rest on Agaron... The Star Law of the planet Agaron had never been questioned - until Bardek arrived in the city of Bar-Geda. His premature birth under th...
The Eye of Callanish is set at the beginning of the twelfth century on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. It tells the story of a young girl, Mairi, who is persecuted for being in league with the Devil. She bel...
Ierii, the daughter of the chief gardener at the palace, is in love with Thyloss, the son of the keeper of the Queen's bulls. Thyloss, who is looking forward to a future as a bull acrobat - a position of great importance - finds his feelings for Ieri...
It is the 12th century AD. Neil lives with his parents on a farm on the remote island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He is bored with his days and longs for excitement. He makes friends with Brother Durston, a Christian hermit living in a rocky cell...
Viviane, a beautiful Celtic princess, unwittingly unravels the spell that binds the spirit of the evil Idoc within a circle of tall stones. Once released, the sorcerer-priest uses his powers to deliver vengeance upon those responsible for his origina...
Eighteen beautiful, insightful, moral, magical stories for children with Imagination -- and their parents. Many have never been published before, and will be a treat for all fans of Moyra Caldecott....
Crystals and gemstones have been a source of fascination since Neolithic times; they endure when the bones of those they have adorned have turned to dust. Such was the profundity of crystal lore that ancient peoples incorporated crystals and gemstone...
Drawing on folklore, myth and legend, Moyra Caldecott tells the story of the struggle between good and evil, St. Collen and the mighty Gwyn ap Nudd, a confrontation involving the Earth Goddess and, ultimately, the highest powers in the universe....
Three Celtic Tales is a compilation of three traditional Welsh folk tales, drawn from the Mabinogion and retold by Moyra Caldecott.The Twins of the Tylwyth Teg is based on a well known story in Welsh folklore about a herd boy who marries a faery from...
In Britain, at Aquae Sulis, a place of pilgrimage and healing, hot waters gush ceaselessly from the earth. Since ancient times the waters have been associated with the supernatural.It is 72 AD -- most of Britain is under Roman domination. There is un...
To this day, throughout the ancient city of Bath, there exist statues and images of the man who was the legendary founder of the city, and the father of King Lear. A leper and a swineherd... a necromancer and a wise king... his memory lives on.King B...
One of the most persistent themes in myth and legend from the world's many cultures is that of the story of the journey - the quest. In Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests, noted writer on the topic, Moyra Caldecott, shows the connection between the ...
The Temple of the Sun is the second book of the "Guardians of the Tall Stones" series. It continues the story of Kyra's hazardous journey undertaken with Karne and Fern to the Sacred Temple, where Kyra is to receive her training as a priestess and re...
THE PRIESTS OF THE SUN FACED THE GOD OF DARKNESS From the west they came like an all-devouring locust swarm--the armed horde of invaders who followed their savage king and sullen queen and terrifying dark god Groth. At first the news of rapine ...
Book One of The Guardians of the Tall Stones.This book has been called "one of the great esoteric novels of the 20th century".The first of four novels set in Bronze Age Britain, a society focused around the great circles of Sacred Stones scattered ac...