*** Wraeththu Chronicles ( omnibus ) 2007

Wraeththu first appeared in print with The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit ( 1987 ), followed by the next two Wraeththu Chronicles books, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate ( 1988 ) and The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire ( 1989 ).

The Wraeththu ( pronounced ray-thoo ) are a science fantasy post-apocalyptic hermaphroditic species which evolved from humanity in the Wraeththu novels, created by British fantasy author Storm Constantine.

The Wraeththu, however, are a new species, born from a mutation of unknown origin ; Constantine implies an apocalypse, but the history is mysterious.

Late in the story, there are Wraeththu communities where the human community is protected, and human males are incepted after fathering a human child.

Wraeththu are true hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female sexual organs and appearing androgynous in general outward appearance.

Harlings develop far more rapidly than human children and are fully grown and sexually mature by the age of seven or eight, at which point they undergo Wraeththu puberty, feybraiha, and are introduced to aruna.

They are more tolerant of the remaining humans than other Wraeththu, and have sheltered a small human community amongst themselves.

* UIGENNA-Feared for their savagery and wild ruthlessness, the Uigenna are one of the first tribes to appear from the original Wraeththu group.

Wraeththu are the subject of a role-playing game, From Enchantment to Fulfilment, released in 2005 by Immanion Press.

The first Wraeththu har ( pl.

AGHAMA-The first Wraeththu, deified as progenitor of all Wraeththukind

In 2003, Immanion Press published the first " Wraeththu Mythos " book, Breeding Discontent, written by two fans ( Wendy Darling and Bridgette Parker ) and edited by Constantine herself.

Of these short stories, most notable is " Paragenesis " describing in poignant details the very beginnings of Wraeththu, featuring Thiede, the first har, his sad infancy, his flight from home and how he discovered love and loss before giving rise to the new race.

Wraeththu has had a cult following since the late 80s when the series first appeared.

There is a Wraeththu fan fiction community, which exists primarily online ; in 2003 a series of fan-written short stories was self-published by fans in a booklet titled Writers of the Storm.

The book follows the story of a member of the Sulh tribe who seeks a hienama, or Wraeththu shaman, for training, and gets more deeply entangled in his education than he expected.

In 2005 the German publishing firm Zauberfeder Verlag published Wraeththu: The Picture Book, a full-color album showing off the work of photographer Marja Kettner and a group of German fans who created costumes, jewelry and makeup to great a pictorial vision of the world of Wraeththu.

Constantine not only allows but fully supports fan fiction, to the delight of fans who have written and published many stories online, most of them hosted on the Forever Wraeththu web site.

* ARUHANI-Savage and protective of his kind, Aruhani is dehar of aruna ( Wraeththu sex and procreation ), and of life and death.

Combining elements of paganism ( Constantine's experience in the Occult is heavily based on Egyptian Mythology ) and the Jungian concepts of Anima and Animus ( The Secret Marriage of the Psyche ), the Grimoire attempts to blend the earth based reverence of the Dehara ( gods of the Wraeththu ) and Awareness of Self, through visualisation, giving a framework to the Practitioner for the exploration of this spiritual way.

In 2004, a new trilogy, the Wraeththu Histories, launched with The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure, followed by The Shades of Time and Memory ( 2005 ) and The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence ( 2006 ).

On July 31 and August 1, 2004, a Wraeththu paintball event was in the USA at Realms of Ruin paintball field, Wilmington, IL ( near Chicago ).

In the spirit of ecumenism more recent Catholic translations ( e. g. the New American Bible, Jerusalem Bible, and ecumenical translations used by Catholics, such as the RSV-CE ) use the same " standardized " ( King James Version ) spellings and names as Protestant Bibles ( e. g. 1 Chronicles as opposed to the Douaic 1 Paralipomenon, 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings instead of 1-4 Kings ) in those books which are universally considered canonical, the protocanonicals.

The Books of Chronicles ( Hebrew Dibh're Hayyamim, דברי הימים, Greek Paralipomenon, ) are part of the Hebrew Bible.

The division of Chronicles and its place in the Christian canons are based upon the division of books in the ancient Greek Septuagint.

In Christian Bibles, Chronicles 1 and 2 are part of the Old Testament, following Kings and before Ezra.

The Chronicles are an epitome of the sacred history from the days of Adam down to the return from Babylonian exile, a period of about 3, 500 years.

There are in the Chronicles also many quotations from the Book of Psalms and occasional references from the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

And there are several non-biblical historically and archaeologically attested details that can only be found in Chronicles, including the account of the Egyptian Shistak's campaign in the late 10th century BCE ( 2 Chronicles 12: 2 – 4 ), and Hezekiah's preparing and safeguarding Jerusalem's water supply prior to the Assyrian attack in the late 8th century BCE ( 2 Chronicles 32: 2-4 ).

Twenty whole chapters of the Chronicles, and twenty-four parts of chapters, are occupied with matters not found elsewhere.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

Temple prophets are described in 1 Chronicles 25: 1 as using lyres, harps and cymbals.

Chronicles are the predecessors of modern " time lines " rather than analytical histories.

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

* Chronicles are two canonical books of the Old Testament.

The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan stele records " House of David ", which some take as confirmation of the existence in the mid-9th century BCE of a Judean royal dynasty called the " House of David ".

In C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, gnomes, or " Earthmen " as they are sometimes called, live in the Underland, a series of subterranean caverns.

Shakespeare's source for the tragedy are the accounts of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles ( 1587 ), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).

* 2002-2006: Chronicles of the reign of Robert the Bruce ( or Robert de Brus ) are published in a series titled Rebel King, Hammer of the Scots ( 2002 ); Rebel King, The Har ' ships ( 2004 ); and Rebel King, Bannok Burn ( 2006 ).

Since many of the Mitzvot themselves are thought to postdate the Book ( s ) of Samuel ( according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias.

They are sometimes also divided into such categories as Sifrei Emet ( ספרי אמת, literally " Books of Truth ") of Psalms, Proverbs and Job ( the Hebrew names of these three books form the Hebrew word for " truth " as an acrostic, and all three books have unique cantillation marks ), the " wisdom books " of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, the " poetry books " of Psalms, Lamentations and Song of Songs, and the " historical books " of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.

The members of the Inklings are the three Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica in James A. Owen's series, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica.