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Book Synopsis Myths of Ife (Classic Reprint) by : John Wyndham
Download or read book Myths of Ife (Classic Reprint) written by John Wyndham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Myths of Ife Man. The suggestions contained in Note IV on the Creation of Man, and in Note VII on the possible connection between the Edi Festival and the Saturnalia, are offered after a subsequent reading of the Golden Bough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book MYTHS OF IFE written by JOHN. WYNDHAM and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myths of Ífè written by John Wyndham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Myths of Ífè The author spent several years as an Assistant District Officer among the Yorubas in Nigeria, and was thus enabled to collect the folklore contained in this book from native sources. The reticence of the natives on religious subjects made it necessary to piece much together from incantations and chance remarks, but it is hoped that the notes will show that no great liberty has been taken with the beliefs of a tribe which inhabits a large area in West Africa. The legends are bare and uncertain, and it seemed that blank verse would prove a more suitable form to present them than prose. The author desires to express his indebtedness to Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer for advice when this work was half-finished, and also to the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute for permission to re-publish Notes I and XI-XIV which appeared originally in "Man." The suggestions contained in Note IV on the Creation of Man, and in Note VII on the possible connection between the Edi Festival and the Saturnalia, are offered after a subsequent reading of the "Golden Bough." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Mythology (Classic Reprint) by : Helen Archibald Clarke
Download or read book A Guide to Mythology (Classic Reprint) written by Helen Archibald Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Guide to Mythology My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go with im mature minds, based upon the most recent investiga tions of scholars, and to select the myths used in illustration of the plan, with a View to giving them interesting stories to read, which will, almost uncon sciously to themselves, lay a firm foundation for the fascinating study of Comparative Mythology, should they wish to go more deeply into it in the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Great Myth (Classic Reprint) by : J. C. Wright
Download or read book The Great Myth (Classic Reprint) written by J. C. Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Myth Out of all the tales, myths and traditions that I have heard from these people I have been able to construct the following story. It may be true and it may not be true; but according to my best knowledge and belief the incidents hereinafter related actually occurred on the American conti nent at the time indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Myths Every Child Should Know by : Hamilton Wright Mabie
Download or read book Myths Every Child Should Know written by Hamilton Wright Mabie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Myths Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Classic Myths of All Times for Young People Our idea of the world is scientific because it is based on exact though by no means complete knowledge; the myth-makers' idea of the world was poetic because, with very incomplete knowledge, they could not imagine how anything could be done unless it was done as they did things. When the black clouds gather on a summer after noon and roll up the sky In great, terrifying masses, and the lightning flashes from them and the crash of the thun der fills the air and the rain beats down the crops, we feel as if we were in the laboratory of nature seeing a wonderful experiment made; when our ancestors saw the same spec tacle they were sure that a great dragon, breathing fire and roaring with anger, was ravaging the earth. As children to - day imagine that dolls are alive, that fairies dance in moonlit meadows on summer nights, or beasts or Indians make the sounds in the woods, so the people who made the myths filled the world with creatures unlike them selves, but with something of human intelligence, feeling and will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Myth written by Thomas Albert Sebeok and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Myth: A Symposium In 1856 Max Miiller published a long essay on Comparative Mythology which reoriented all previous thinking on the origin of myths. The treatise astonished and delighted philologists, classicists, and literary scholars; John Fiske recalls the excite ment that swept him on first reading the noble essay, and Cox and Lang equally pay it tribute.8 Only ten years earlier William Thorns had devised the term folk-lore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Birth and Growth of Myth (Classic Reprint) by : Edward Clodd
Download or read book The Birth and Growth of Myth (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Clodd and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Birth and Growth of Myth Man, in his first outlook upon Nature, was altogether ignorant of the character of the forces by which he was environed ignorant of that unvarying relation be tween effect and cause which it needed the experience of ages and the generaliza tions therefrom to apprehend, and to ex press as laws of nature. He had not even the intellectual resource of later times in inventing miracle to explain where the necessary relation between events seemed broken or absent. His first attitude was that of wonder, mingled with fear - fear as instinctive as the dread of the brute for him. The sole measure of things was himself; couse quently, everything that moved or that had power of movement, did so because it was alive. A personal life and will was attributed to sun, moon, clouds, river, waterfall, ocean, and tree, and the vary ing phenomena of the sky at dawn or noonday, at gray eve or black-clouded night, were the manifestation of the con trolling life that dwelt in all. In a thou sand different forms this conception was expressed. The thunder was the roar of a mighty beast; the lightning a serpent darting at its prey, an angry eye ashing, the storm demon's outshot forked tongue; the rainbow a thirsty monster; the water spout a long-tailed dragon. This was not a pretty or powerful conceit, not im agery, but an explanation. The men who thus spoke of these phenomena meant precisely what they said. What does the savage know about heat, light, sound, electricity, and the other modes of mo tion through which the Proteus force be yond our ken is manifest? How many persons who have enjoyed a liberal' education can give correct answer, if asked off-hand, explaining how glaciers are born of the sunshine, and why two sounds, travelling in opposite directions at equal velocities, interfere and cause silence? I have been su rised at the number Of young men, ailing from schools of renown, who have given me the most ludicrous replies when asked the cause of day and light, and the dis tance of the earth from the sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Book Synopsis The Queen of the Air by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Queen of the Air written by John Ruskin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud In this inquiry, Mr. Ruskin's keen percep tion and long study of the aspects of nature, and of the forms in which the imagination has expressed itself, together with the bent of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles (Classic Reprint) by : Padraic Colum
Download or read book The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles (Classic Reprint) written by Padraic Colum and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles A man in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion. He carried in his arms a little child. When it was full noon the slave came into a clearing of the forest so silent that it seemed empty of all life. He laid the child down on the soft moss, and then, trembling with the fear of what might come before him, he raised a horn to his lips and blew three blasts upon it. Then he waited. The blue sky was above him, the great trees stood away from him, and the little child lay at his feet. He waited, and then he heard the thud-thud of great hooves. And then from between the trees he saw coming toward him the strangest of all beings, one who was half man and half horse; this was Chiron the centaur. Chiron came toward the trembling slave. Greater than any horse was Chiron, taller than any man. The hair of his head flowed back into his horse's mane, his great beard flowed over his horse's chest; in his man's hand he held a great spear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Ife, the Holy City of the Yoruba by : Janet L. Stanley
Download or read book Ife, the Holy City of the Yoruba written by Janet L. Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecstasy of Being by : Joseph Campbell
Download or read book Ecstasy of Being written by Joseph Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Joseph Campbell's collected writings on dance and art, including Campbell's unpublished manuscript "Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts," the book he was working on when he died Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell's wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in modern dance who worked with Martha Graham and had Merce Cunningham in her first company. When Campbell retired from teaching in 1972, he and Erdman formed the Theater of the Open Eye in New York City, where for nearly fifteen years they presented a wide array of dance and theater productions, lectures, and performance pieces. The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell's previously uncollected articles on dance, along with "Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts," the treatise he was working on when he died, published here for the first time. In this collection Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the twentieth century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others; and, as always, probes the idea of art as "the funnel through which spirit is poured into life." This book offers the reader an accessible, yet profound and provocative, insight into Campbell's lifelong fascination with the relationship of myth to aesthetic form and human psychology.
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Download or read book International African Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Death and Life of Great American Cities by : Jane Jacobs
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Book Synopsis "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it Is; Or Life at the South by : William L. G. Smith
Download or read book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it Is; Or Life at the South written by William L. G. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Hero with an African Face by : Clyde W. Ford
Download or read book Hero with an African Face written by Clyde W. Ford and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive research and his own wide travels, Ford vividly retells ancient African myths and tales and brings to light their universal meanings.
