Author: Frank Waters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"A fascinating and important book". -- The New York Times Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Masked Gods
Author: Frank Waters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"A fascinating and important book". -- The New York Times Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"A fascinating and important book". -- The New York Times Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Civilization
Author: Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher: Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
ISBN: 9788293064428
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This manifesto offers the essence of Öcalan's ideas on society, knowledge, and power, and they are crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Öcalan argues that a criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, and in this work, he turns his eyes to the underlying structures of civilization.
Publisher: Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
ISBN: 9788293064428
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This manifesto offers the essence of Öcalan's ideas on society, knowledge, and power, and they are crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Öcalan argues that a criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, and in this work, he turns his eyes to the underlying structures of civilization.
Masked Gods. Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism. (Second Edition. Illustrations and Calligraphy by Ralph Douglass.).
Author: Frank Waters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Heroes Masked and Mythic
Author: Christopher Wood
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683158
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683158
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.
The Century
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Masks and Demons
Author: Kenneth Macgowan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the Beginning
Author: Jerrold E. Levy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520920570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the historical context of the Navajo narratives, Levy points out that Navajo society has never during its known history been either homogeneous or unchanging, and he goes on to identify in the myths persisting traditions that represent differing points of view within the society. The major transformations of the Navajo people, from a northern hunting and gathering society to a farming, then herding, then wage-earning society in the American Southwest, were accompanied by changes not only in social organization but also in religion. Levy sees evidence of internal historical conflicts in the varying versions of the creation myth and their reflection in the origin myths associated with healing rituals. Levy also compares Navajo answers to the perennial questions about the creation of the cosmos and why people are the way they are with the answers provided by Judaism and Christianity. And, without suggesting that they are equivalent, Levy discusses certain parallels between Navajo religious ideas and contemporary scientific cosmology. The possibility that in the future Navajo religion will be as much altered by changing conditions as it has been in the past makes this fascinating account all the more timely. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North Am
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520920570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the historical context of the Navajo narratives, Levy points out that Navajo society has never during its known history been either homogeneous or unchanging, and he goes on to identify in the myths persisting traditions that represent differing points of view within the society. The major transformations of the Navajo people, from a northern hunting and gathering society to a farming, then herding, then wage-earning society in the American Southwest, were accompanied by changes not only in social organization but also in religion. Levy sees evidence of internal historical conflicts in the varying versions of the creation myth and their reflection in the origin myths associated with healing rituals. Levy also compares Navajo answers to the perennial questions about the creation of the cosmos and why people are the way they are with the answers provided by Judaism and Christianity. And, without suggesting that they are equivalent, Levy discusses certain parallels between Navajo religious ideas and contemporary scientific cosmology. The possibility that in the future Navajo religion will be as much altered by changing conditions as it has been in the past makes this fascinating account all the more timely. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North Am
The Masks of God
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Masks, Heads, and Faces
Author: Ellen Russell Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Masked Gods - Book 1 of Masked Gods
Author: Margie Greyvenstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849440653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
'I am the one who lives in your dreams, the one who travels the ways of your heart, the one who rests in the lap of your thoughts, the one who rides the waves of your anger. I am your weapon in the arena; I am your counter weight in the Balance; I am your alter ego, I am Shadow.'
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849440653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
'I am the one who lives in your dreams, the one who travels the ways of your heart, the one who rests in the lap of your thoughts, the one who rides the waves of your anger. I am your weapon in the arena; I am your counter weight in the Balance; I am your alter ego, I am Shadow.'