Rod & Ring, An Initiation Into A Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition (Softcover) default-HIDE He combines a call for

He combines a call for a new reverence for nature with a fascination for some of folklore’s strangest representations of our dependence upon it: from the toad-bone amulet in East Anglian witchcraft to the seductive Queen Rat of the Toshers in Bermondsey

• The theme for the Ball this year is “Gods and Goddesses"

the devil decided to set John an impossible task

It is at work in the poems of John Clare

whose presence in the wheat

Rod & Ring, An Initiation Into A Mesopotamian Mystery Tradition (Softcover) default-HIDE He combines a call forAuthor: Samuel David In Mesopotamian art, the rod and ring, like the horned helm or crown, are indicators of the depicted beings divine status. The most famous depiction being that of Shamash, the solar god of justice holding both divine symbols of power before Hammurabi the king on the Code of Hammurabi stele. The depiction of a deity presenting these items of power to a human indicates the conferring of some divine measure, be it benediction or