Category: Mythology Folk Tales

By Clara Stroebe, George W Hood, Frederick H Martens

A suite of Folklore and Fairy stories from Norway in step with Gynt The Isle of Udröst the 3 Lemons The Neighbor Underground the key Church The Comrade Aspenclog The Troll marriage ceremony The Hat of the Huldres the kid of Mary typhoon Magic The Four-shilling Piece The Magic Apples Self Did It The grasp lady Anent the large Who didn't have His center approximately Him the 3 Princesses in Whiteland hassle and Care Kari Woodencoat Ola Storbaekkjen The Cat Who may devour loads East of the solar and West of the Moon Murmur Goose-egg The Troll-Wife The King’s Hares Helge-Hal within the Blue Hill The Lord of the Hill and John Blessom The younger Fellow and the satan Farther South Than South, and Farther North Than North, and within the nice Hill of Gold fortunate Andrew The Pastor and the Sexton The Skipper and Sir Urian The early life Who was once to Serve 3 Years with no Pay The formative years Who desired to Win the Daughter of the mum within the nook The Chronicle of the Pancake Soria-Moria citadel The participant at the Jew’s-harp

By Laurence Coupe

ISBN-10: 0203888081

ISBN-13: 9780203888087

ISBN-10: 0415442419

ISBN-13: 9780415442411

Laurence Coupe deals scholars a vital review of the evolution of 'myth', from the traditional Greek definitions to these of more than a few modern thinkers. This introductory quantity * presents an advent to either the idea of fable and the making of delusion * explores the makes use of made from the time period 'myth' in the fields of literary feedback, anthropology, cultural experiences, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis * discusses the organization among modernism, postmodernism, fable and background * familiarises the reader with issues equivalent to the demise god, the search for the grail, the relation among 'chaos' and 'cosmos', and the imaginative and prescient of the top of time * illustrates the relation among fable, tradition and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, movie and renowned track.

By Natalie O. Kononenko

ISBN-10: 0585212023

ISBN-13: 9780585212029

ISBN-10: 0765601443

ISBN-13: 9780765601445

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian people culture is a little-known social order, yet an incredible one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, those minstrels have been prepared into expert guilds that set criteria for education and function. Repressed through the Stalin period, this can be their tale.

By Katie DuMont

В книге представлено около 30 украшений и аксессуаров из макраме + замечательная галерея дизайнерских работ.

By Edward Allen Beach

ISBN-10: 0791409732

ISBN-13: 9780791409732

This ebook explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and hermeneutical theories of Schelling's ultimate process about the nature and that means of non secular mythology. this attitude is no surprise in view that Schelling looked faith (not technology or philosophy) as embodying the main entire manifestation of fact.
Beach examines Schelling's novel try to account for the altering ancient types of faith by way of a posh concept of dynamic non secular powers, or "potencies." He indicates that those usually are not mere representations, principles, or projected emotions created through historic myth-makers for the good thing about a credulous population. as an alternative, seashore demonstrates that those potencies will be obvious as animate powers inhabiting the subconscious strata of a people's collective brain.

By Marcel Detienne

ISBN-10: 0691001049

ISBN-13: 9780691001043

Wealthy with implications for the heritage of sexuality, gender concerns, and styles of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark booklet recasts long-standing principles in regards to the fertility fable of Adonis. the writer demanding situations Sir James Frazer's thesis that the crops god Adonis-- whose untimely demise used to be mourned by means of ladies and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the yearly cycle of progress and rot in agriculture. utilizing the analytic instruments of structuralism, Detienne indicates in its place that the fairs of Adonis depict a seductive yet impotent and fruitless deity--whose actual ineptitude ended in his dying in a boar hunt, and then his physique was once present in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the fairs of Adonis with the solemn ones devoted to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he unearths the previous as a parody and negation of the establishment of marriage.Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian ladies planted in mockery for Adonis's competition, and explores the functionality of such vegetal subject as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and rainy crops in spiritual perform and in a big variety of myths. His inquiry exposes, between many stuff, attitudes towards sexual actions starting from "perverse" acts to marital kinfolk.

By H. A. Shapiro

ISBN-10: 0203415035

ISBN-13: 9780203415030

ISBN-10: 0203723279

ISBN-13: 9780203723272

ISBN-10: 0415067936

ISBN-13: 9780415067935

ISBN-10: 0585455724

ISBN-13: 9780585455723

Fantasy into paintings is a comparative research of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visible arts. Thirty of the most important myths are surveyed, concentrating on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. at the creative facet, the emphasis is on Athenian and South Italian vases. The e-book deals undergraduate scholars an advent either to mythology and to using visible assets within the learn of Greek myth.

By Barbara Tedlock

ISBN-10: 0585304335

ISBN-13: 9780585304335

ISBN-10: 0826313582

ISBN-13: 9780826313584

Defined as a landmark within the ethnographic learn of the Maya, this examine of formality and cosmology one of the modern Quich? Indians of highland Guatemala has now been up-to-date to deal with alterations that experience happened within the final decade. The vintage Mayan obsession with time hasn't ever been larger recognized. the following, Barbara Tedlock redirects our realization to the present-day keepers of the traditional calendar. Combining anthropology with formal apprenticeship to a diviner, she refutes long-held ethnographic assumptions and opens a door to the order of the Mayan cosmos and its day-by-day ritual. not able to go to the area for over ten years, Tedlock again in 1989 to discover that observance of the conventional calendar and faith is better than ever, regardless of a brutal civil battle. “. . . a well-written, hugely readable, and deeply convincing contribution. . . .”—Michael Coe

By Kenneth L. Untiedt

ISBN-10: 1574412566

ISBN-13: 9781574412567

Demise presents us with a few of our absolute best folklore. a few worry it, a few include it, and such a lot have beautiful company rules approximately what occurs after we die. even if a few humans won't are looking to talk about loss of life, it occurs to all of us--and there is not any technique to get round it. This book of the Texas Folklore Society examines the lore of loss of life and no matter what occurs in a while. the 1st bankruptcy examines areas the place individuals are buried, both completely or quickly. bankruptcy positive aspects articles approximately how humans die and the rituals linked to funerals and burials. The 3rd bankruptcy explores a few of the stranger tales approximately what occurs after we are long past, and the final bankruptcy bargains a few philosophical musings approximately loss of life quite often, in addition to our connection to those that have long past sooner than.

By Hesiod, Glenn W. Most

ISBN-10: 0674996224

ISBN-13: 9780674996229

Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses name upon him to sing concerning the gods. His certain dates are unknown, yet he has usually been thought of a more youthful modern of Homer. This quantity of the recent Loeb Classical Library variation deals a basic creation, a fluid translation dealing with a higher Greek textual content of Hesiod's extant poems, and a beneficiant number of testimonia from a wide selection of historic resources concerning Hesiod's existence, works, and reception. In Theogony Hesiod charts the historical past of the divine international, narrating the beginning of the universe and the increase of the gods, from first beginnings to the triumph of Zeus, and reporting at the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal males. In Works and Days Hesiod shifts his awareness to the area of guys, supplying ethical precepts and functional suggestion concerning agriculture, navigation, and lots of different concerns; alongside the way in which he offers us the myths of Pandora and of the Golden, Silver, and different Races of fellows. (20070320)