Authors:Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen,
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: knowledge, transmission, myth, human, origins, mill, essay, investigating, hamlet
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1992-08-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0879232153
ISBN-13: 9780879232153

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy w

Authors:Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, Jana Seq
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: american, women, native, fiction, contemporary, short, reckonings
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195109252
ISBN-13: 9780195109252

The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new stories by well-known contemporary Native American writers as well as fresh emergent voices. These st

Authors:Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, Jana Seq
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: american, women, native, fiction, contemporary, short, reckonings
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195109244
ISBN-13: 9780195109245

The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new stories by well-known contemporary Native American writers as well as fresh emergent voices. These st