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Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novel, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly recreating...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Plato's ambitious dialogue Timaeus and the unfinished Critias were meant to be part of a trilogy that would outline a proper and sufficiently detailed natural philosophy and cosmology. The Timaeus is Plato's spirited response to the cosmogony and physics of the "atheist" Atomist philosophers Leucippus and Democritus. The Critias presents what might be a famous Platonic...
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Noted Irish author's selection of favorite tales from the Emerald Isle, brimming with sly humor, whimsy, and imagination. "Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daughter," "When the King of the Cats Came to King Connal's Dominion," "The Town of the Red Castle," "The King of the Land of Mist," and 3 more. 9 full-page illustrations.
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College, is the author of The Mummies of Ürümchi (W. W. Norton), Women's Work (W. W. Norton), and Prehistoric Textiles (Princeton). Paul T. Barber, a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Vampires, Burial, and Death (Yale).
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks?...
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Discover the stories of American Indians and their significance in preserving customs, traditions, and wisdom through storytelling. This title supports multiple reading standards: reading closely for explicit meaning and inferences, while citing specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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Take a journey to ancient Rome and learn about some of the most exciting figures in Roman mythology. Full-color illustrations bring each god or goddess to life while readers discover their characteristics, responsibilities, and tales of triumph and defeat. A detailed family tree at the back of the book helps young readers see the connections and relationships Roman gods and goddesses have with each other, while an introductory chart with phonetic...
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From mummies to magic, Egyptian mythology is teeming with fascinating stories ancient people used to explain the world and its origins. Discover the tales that shaped Egyptian culture and traditions. This title supports multiple reading standards: reading closely for explicit meaning and inferences, while citing specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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Cornwall's rugged coast is etched with stories. Here you'll find tales of powerful mermaids, spiteful witches, crafty smugglers and woeful ghosts. Up on the moors are mischievous creatures, huge giants and elusive beasts. Let the piskeys lead you astray across the windy tors and sandy shorelines to experience wonder, miracles, secrets and magic. Bodmin Moor folklore writer Anna Chorlton retells tales of North and East Cornwall, illustrated by local...
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The prince no longer kisses the princess, Cinderella helps her new husband to pick a new dress and the relationship between Mr Wolf and the three little pigs is a bit more complicated than you might have thought.
In this collection of delightful, empowering and often magical tales, Kevin Walker creates and adapts a host of stories for the LGBTQ+ community. These sometimes traditional and sometimes modern tales show queer people that they belong not...
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A treasury of tales from ancient myth and legend, this collection was assembled and recounted by a well-known and much-loved storyteller. All of the legendary heroic and tragic figures of the ancient world appear here, in myths derived from Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Hebrew, Hellenic, Latin, Celtic, Nordic, Mesoamerican, and other traditions. Larger-than-life figures populate these stories--Isis and Osiris, Gilgamesh, Hercules and Pandora, Loki,...
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Discover the rich tapestry of the Acoma Pueblo myth cycle in this insightful academic study by Matthew Williams Stirling. Origin Myth of Acoma delves deep into the intricate narratives that have shaped the cultural and spiritual identity of the Acoma people.
Placing these myths within the broader context of Native American folklore, Stirling meticulously examines their symbolic meanings and historical significance. The book explores themes of...
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The sea realm has ever been mysterious: strange happenings upon it, an unfathomable abyss of 'The Great Unknown' below. Before the scrutiny of scientific Enlightenment and Age of Reason, in the eighteenth century, ghost ships and oceanic monsters were the stuff of superstition, myth and legend to explain the inexplicable, to enthral the imagination — and enliven the unimaginable.
Narratives of phantom ships manned by ghostly (sometimes skeletal)...
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Tales of the Punjab (1894) is a collection of stories translated and collected by Flora Annie Steel. Collected while Steel lived with her husband in the north of the Indian subcontinent, Tales of the Punjab was a successful introduction to legends and stories from the Punjab region for children and adults back home in England. Published while India remained under the control of the British Empire, Steel's collection puts a decidedly Western twist...
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En el presente libro encontraremos tanto a Odín como a Loki, la cosmovisión del mundo por los ojos nórdicos y tanto el nacimiento de la humanidad desde su perspectiva como su posible final, el conocimiento y uso de las runas, y las trampas que se le pueden poner a un gnomo para que nos llene de oro los bolsillos, a distinguir entre elfos blancos o seres de luz y elfos negros o seres de las sombras. Por supuesto, visitaremos el Valhalla y Finisterre...
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From a cantankerous brownie in Dolphinton to the vampire with iron teeth who terrorized Glasgow, this collection of tales spans fourteen centuries of Lanarkshire's history and happenings. Here you will find the legends of William Wallace's love and loss in Lanark and Saint Mungo's bitter feud with the Pagan hierarchy and Druids, alongside totemic animals, unique Scottish flora and fauna, warlocks, herb-wives and elfin trickery.
Allison Galbraith combines...
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A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an 'Indian Princess', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft.
These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America,...
19) Gwent Folk Tales
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Gwent teems with stories of magic and strange transformations above and below ground. To tell them afresh, Storyteller Christine Watkins has searched out sharks teeth in the longest cave, chased the dog of darkness through a maze of mountain mist, and salvaged a wise woman's ironstone from the river...Christine was born in New Inn, in the house where her mother and grandmother were born, on a street her forefathers helped build. She grew up listening...
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This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition.
Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking...
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