Download or read book The Urkida Clan written by Lewis Fields and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takaida, prince of water kingdom, is plagued by visions from Sarafina the mermaid princess. He is assigned to protect the trade ships being attacked by a giant Kraken, with which he comes into direct contact. His defeat is swift, but by grace, he is saved from the giant squid by the mermaid who has given him the visions. But her revelations are all the more disturbing. Her people have been enslaved and Takaida's people are in danger of being destroyed as the Kraken has built sonic weapons to sink all the land continents and rule the world. The weight of his world lies on his shoulders as he confronts the Kraken in final battle.
Download or read book Oral Traditions in South India written by Heidrun Brückner and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume studies three oral epic traditions in the Tulu language (a Dravidian language). They have been living performance traditions in the Tulu speaking coastal districts of Karnataka up to the present day. For the first time, Indian, European and American scholars working on Tulu oral epics, folklorists, anthropologists as well as Indologists are brought together. All texts discussed belong to the indigenous Tulu genre called paddana, which ranges from shorter invocations of local deities to texts of epic dimensions. Because paddanas had been transmitted exclusively orally until the 19th century, it is very difficult to assign their composition to a particular historical period. The social universe described in some of them may reflect a late medieval setting. Texts of one of the epic traditions have been collected over a period of almost 150 years, from the mid-19th century to the early 2000s. Two papers (H. Bruckner / V. Rai and V. Nandavara) deal with this tradition which is part of the oldest collections. In contrast, the popular epic of the Bant heroine, Siri, only attracted the attention of scholars from the 1970s onwards. In this book, the Siri tradition is studied by C. Gowda, A. Alva, and P. Schuster-Lohlau. Peter J. Claus' important paper introduces Koddabbu, the champion of a Dalit community. The wealth of texts and versions reflected in this volume allows, for the first time, to make systematic comparisons between different texts of the same tradition as well as between narrative elements and cultural concepts found in different traditions. Linguistic analysis, too, is just beginning to reveal possibly unique textual and narrative features.
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Download or read book The Court of Appeals of Maryland written by Carroll T. Bond and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its origins in the seventeenth century, the Maryland Court of Appeals is one of the oldest in the United States. Located in the middle of the east coast, it was confronted with most of the key legal issues that affected the colonies and early United States. Bond's was the first history of the court from its origins around 1649 to the adoption of the state's current constitution in 1867. A valuable study, it is based almost entirely on primary sources. Bond [1873-1943] was the Chief Justice of the Court from 1924 to the end of his life.
