Download or read book Maka written by Robert Marion and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of the Tana-Waka series, Tana-Waka is summoned from his dying planet Earth to another world. An earthlike world with two moons inhabited by a native people not unlike the Native American peoples of Earth. He is their hope to end an ongoing war and unify two enemies who were once one people. This is the second book of this otherworldly series. The Anaka dreamer White Dove has prophesied the Inu attack of the peaceful Maka people. As the Maka villages are decimated by thousands of barbaric Inu warriors, the pregnant dreamer heads to the climactic battle between her and the Inu's evil shaman, the likes of which unleash the fearsome power of nature. The Maka are neither friend nor enemy of the Anaka. To enter Maka lands with Anaka warriors would not be taken kindly, but it is their dreamer who insists they can and must help, or the entire Maka people will die. Tana-Waka and War Chief Haka head south to aid Deputy War Chief Five Killer, as they consider the punishment for three of their senior warriors for breaking formation in battle. A new and heinous evil is discovered in the southern lands that border the Anaka. In Crane and Maka villages, women and children are disappearing in the night and none has returned. These crimes may be heinous enough to unleash the wrath of the forest spirits.
Download or read book The Sacred Language of the Abaku written by Lydia Cabrera and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Maori Language written by Bp. Herbert William Williams and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riding with Ghosts written by Gwen Maka and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild. She runs appalling risks and copes in a gutsy, hilarious way with exhaustion, climatic extremes, dangerous animals, eccentrics, lechers, and a permanently saddle-sore backside. We share her deep involvement with the West's pioneering past, and with the tragic traces that history has left lingering on the land. When she rides the faded trails of the vanished American Indian nations she displays a strong sensitivity to the atmosphere of the spectacular landscape, as if the moments of its vibrant past are hanging in the air, only waiting for her to conjure them up vividly—sometimes with humor, and frequently with passion. As she travels, the ghosts of Lewis and Clark, Chief Joseph and Geronimo, Custer and Crazy Horse—all the legendary figures of the Old West—ride with her.
Download or read book Hikajat Andaken Penurat written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the Classical Malay prose work, the Hikajat Andakén Penurat includes an English translation and an Introduction explaining the place of the work in Malay literature. The Hikajat Andakén Penurat tells the story of the prince Raden Andakén Penurat and his beloved, Kèn Tambuhan. It is closely related to the Shair Kèn Tambuhan, a poem that has appeared in several editions. The story is relatively short and well written; it is representative of its genre. The book is especially intended for readers who have little or no knowledge of Malay.
Download or read book Maka the Magic Music Maker written by Shannon Scott and published by Beachhouse Pub Llc. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maka didn't talk much, but he loved to sing. Wherever he went, his beloved 'ukulele was by his side. And whenever he started to play and sing his song, "The Maka Shaka Shuffle," people would stop what they were doing and sing along¿ Point your thumb, now point your pinky. Shake it back and forth and give a little winky. It's the Maka Shaka Shuffle, oh yeah. The Maka Shaka Shuffle, uh huh. One day, a very big and very hungry pua'a entered his village and started chasing all his friends. Shy little Maka did the only thing he knew how and bravely saved his village from destruction. An audio CD with an original song by Domonic Vespoli, "Maka the Music Maker," and a reading by author Shannon Scott is included.
Download or read book Niue Language Dictionary written by Niue and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tohi Vagahau Niue is a significant new dictionary detailing the Polynesian language of Niue, and will benefit Niuean studies for years to come. While its main aim is to be a repository for native speakers, it will also serve a wider linguistic audience, including comparativists and theorists in lexicography. Detailed user notes introduce the reader to the basic challenges in Niuean lexicography and grammar. With some 10,000 Niuean word entries, the present dictionary is a significant expansion on an earlier work. The Niuean contributors took great care to present their language as a living entity while preserving its valuable past, but they are also aware of its uncertain future. Language revival is essential to preserve a linguistic Pacific jewel, and as such the new dictionary will lend status to Niuean language studies as well as be an invaluable help in using Niuean confidently in everyday life.
Download or read book AFLOAT written by Romardro Henderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adolescent male desires to prove his manhood to his village. To be more of a man of importance, he takes a boat out fishing to out perform the men in his family to include his father. Instead of triumph, he gets lost at sea and experiences dehydration, starvation, hallucinations along with other tribulations amongst the dangerous shark hunting the waters.
Download or read book Senegal written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary written by Edward Tregear and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Māori dictionary with English definitions and Polynesian comparisons"--BIM.
Download or read book Maka the Tree Snail Discovers His Worth written by Gail Omoto and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tagalog Reference Grammar written by Paul Schachter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Grammar of the Tag log Language written by Frank Ringgold Blake and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hikayat Indraputra written by S W R Mulyadi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1983 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hikayat Indraputra, or adventures of Indraputra, is a fine example of traditional Malay story-telling, in the form of the prose hikayat. It follows the hero through the fantastic realms of jinns and demigods where he wins the hands of beautiful princesses and obtains magic stones to aid him in his battles. It is a tale that is well-known and must long have been popular among he Malay-speaking peoples, to judge from the large number of manuscripts that have survived. Dr. Mulyadi presents the complete Malay text, according to the reading of a manuscript dating from 1700 and now kept in the collection of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden. She also gives a very full English rendering of the story, and enough background information to provide a sound basic for further literary analysis. There is ample material here for the student of folklore, as well as those interested in the problems of Malay philology. This work represents a further step forward in the study of traditional Indonesian literatures, hence its place in the series Bibliotheca Indonesica, which aims to make texts in critical editions accessible to a wider public.
Download or read book Tana Waka written by Robert Marion and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying man from a dying planet returns to the roots of his Native American ancestors. Tana-Waka is called by the Foothills Tribe over the vast distances of space to a land where two powerful tribes must again become one people, or their wars will cause their own destruction. In the first book of the Tana-Waka series, Tana-Waka is summoned from his withering planet Earth to another world by a desperate people. In hopes, he can end an ongoing war and unify enemies who were long ago one people. Tana-Waka awakens in a world with two moons. He is only a man but his link to the forest spirits is an old one. His power is in his ability to see the souls of people; his strongest weapon is his knowledge from the fading memories of his former world, as well as his ability to dream. Legend says the he alone possess blue eyes, power over animals, a mastery of warrior tactics, and an unmatched ability as a diplomat. Aided by the healer Mahanee and Tewani, the chief's beautiful daughter, they try to forge a new path for the people before it is too late.
