Author: Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Journal of American Folklore
Author: Traditional Cosmology, vol. 5: Solar and Lunar Anomalies
Author: Marinus Anthony van der SluijsPublisher: All-Round Publications
ISBN: 1999438302
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This work, in 6 volumes, is a compendium of traditional cosmologies worldwide. The material includes the global mythology of creation and destruction, but also comprises information drawn from other areas of traditional knowledge, ritual, iconography, shamanism, costume, and dance. Relying on original sources, universal points of agreement are identified, often on counter-intuitive ideas. These suggest a single template, a blueprint for a universal mythology of origins with local variations. Volume 5 documents a large number of traditions concerning unusual and often undesirable properties and activities of the sun and moon. To name just a few examples, prominent beliefs were that the moon was originally brighter than the sun and that the earth once succumbed to the heat caused by the sun's former proximity, its greater strength, its failure to move or the appearance of multiple luminaries.
Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation
Author: Oceanica and America
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Sky Clears
Author: Arthur Grove DayPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250475
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Over two hundred poems and lyrics survey the verse of forty North American Indian tribes ranging from the Eskimos to the Aztecs
American Anthropologist
Author: Encyclopedia of Giants and Humanoids in Myth, Legend and Folklore
Author: Theresa BanePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476623384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Every culture has in its folklore and mythology beings of immense size and strength, as well as other preternatural humanoids great or small who walk among us, serving the divine or fulfilling their own agendas. This book catalogs the lore and legends of more than 1,000 different humanoid species and individual beings, including the Titans, Valkyries, Jotnar, yōkai, biblical giants, elves, ogres, trolls and many more.
Folkloristics
Author: Robert A. GeorgesPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253329349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
""Excellent."" -- The Reader's Review ""Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore... will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world."" -- Come-All-Ye This is the most complete and up-to-date study of folklore and folklore methodologies available. The authors describe the pervasiveness of folklore, including its uses in literature, films, television, cartoons, comic strips, advertising, and other media in a variety of cultures.
Theory and History of Folklore
Author: Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich ProppPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719014611
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Memoir
Author: Geological Survey of CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description