{"product_id":"spiritual-power-of-masks-by-nigel-pennick-paperback-336-pages-english","title":"Spiritual Power of Masks by Nigel Pennick","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores ancient mask customs, rituals, and traditions throughout Europe, from Scandinavia and England to Germany and France to Greece and Rome • Reveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral presence, spirit, deity, or power • Examines animal guising and shows how mask customs are tied to creation myths and the ancestral founders of a people, tribe, city, or nation • Looks at morris dancers and mummers in the UK, Krampuslauf and Perchtenlauf in Germanic areas, the Gorgon myths of Greece,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNorse Berserker rituals, and the annual Black Forest rite to awaken ensouled masks every spring There is a spiritual power in masks that transports one into realms unseen and gives voice to things unspoken. Within the context of ritual, putting on a mask places the wearer at the intersection between the present and the past, the living and the dead, this world and the Otherworld. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SSP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52913515233564,"sku":"9781644114049","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/1116\/3958\/files\/9781644114049.jpg?v=1757652419","url":"https:\/\/www.ashevillepagansupply.store\/products\/spiritual-power-of-masks-by-nigel-pennick-paperback-336-pages-english","provider":"Asheville Pagan Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}