Download or read book Folktales from the Kom Kingdom written by Ernest Timnge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African oral tradition, particularly in the Kom culture, constitutes the main backbone on which African literature is developed and built. African oral tradition is rich in performance. The most important thing about this tradition is that it does not only provide entertainment but also teaches important moral lessons. The stories in African Folktales from Kom Kingdom are original and purely works of fiction. Some of the stories may be inspired by true-life experiences from the past, while others grew from the author’s colorful imagination. These are stories of forbidden love, royalty, forest gods, and more. For this genre of literature to survive the pressure of the current modern age and progress to the next generation, stories must be recorded. Massive and aggressive efforts have been made by experts in African oral tradition to collect, transcribe, translate, and analyze this genre before it completely disappears from the world scene.
Download or read book The Royal Cloth of Cameroon written by Moira F. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Norse Folklore written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of thisfascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre-Christian Nordic religion to innovations within late medieval pilgrimage song culture. Old Norse Folklore provides critical new perspectives on the Old Norse world, some of which appear in this volume for the first time in English. Stephen A. Mitchell presents emerging methodologies by analyzing Old Norse materials to offer a better understandings ofunderstanding of Old Norse materials. He examines, interprets, and re-interprets the medieval data bequeathed to us by posterity—myths, legends, riddles, charms, court culture, conversion narratives, landscapes, and mindscapes—targeting largely overlooked, yet important sources of cultural insights.
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends written by Lewis Spence and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb, in-depth survey explores animism, totemism, fetishism, creation myths, Egyptian priesthood, numerous deities, alchemy, Egyptian art and magic, other fascinating topics. Includes over 50 photographs and illustrations.
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt written by Lewis Spence and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers everywhere will enjoy reading about the intriguing myths and the mysterious legends surrounding the history of Ancient Egypt. This excellent textbook contains details of Egyptian gods and goddesses, beliefs, and cults. Excerpt: "INTRODUCTORY 1 II. EXPLORATION, HISTORY, AND CUSTOMS 33 III. THE PRIESTHOOD: MYSTERIES AND TEMPLES 52 IV. THE CULT OF OSIRIS 63 V. THE GREAT GODS 130 VI. EGYPTIAN LITERATURE 182 VII. MAGIC 252 VIII. FOREIGN AND ANIMAL GODS: THE LATE PERIOD 275 IX. EGYPTIAN ART 311 GLOSSARY AND INDEX."
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt written by Joyce Tyldesley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Herodotus to The Mummy, Western civilization has long been fascinated with the exotic myths and legends of Ancient Egypt but they have often been misunderstood. Here acclaimed Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley guides us through 3000 years of changing stories and, in retelling them, shows us what they mean. Gathered from pyramid friezes, archaological finds and contemporary documents, these vivid and strange stories explain everything from why the Nile flooded every year to their beliefs about what exactly happened after death and shed fascinating light on what life was like for both rich and poor. Lavishly illustrated with colour pictures, maps and family trees, helpful glossaries explaining all the major gods and timelines of the Pharoahs and most importantly packed with unforgettable stories, this book offers the perfect introduction to Egyptian history and civilization.
Download or read book Myths and Legends written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taboo Love written by Joseph Anchangnayuoh Ngongwikuoc and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the early twentieth century within the northwestern savannahs of Cameroon as the infiltration of white colonialism lurks in the shadows. As the Mukomangoc tribes age-old customs battle to survive, no one has any idea that a rebellious virgin is about to challenge everything they have ever known. Iyafi is the only one in her family who does not consider it an honor to be chosen as a wintoc. When the king of the Mukomangocs selects her to be one of his wives, Iyafi dreads the deflowering ceremony with His Highness. What no one knows is that she shares a forbidden love with her childhood friend, Jam. But when cruel chance locks Iyafi and Jam in isolated intimacies, their doom is boldly traced. While they courageously attempt to defy the outcome, their love clashes with a nations destiny as times and generations transform and a king is left to negotiate with the colonial intruders. Taboo Love shares a fascinating tale set in the early twentieth century Africa as tribal rituals intertwine with young love and leave the fate of a nation hanging in the balance.
Download or read book Myths and Legends Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fiddler on Pantico Run written by Joe Mozingo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families. “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes journalist Joe Mozingo, having grown up with only rumors about where his father’s family was from—Italy, France, the Basque Country. But when a college professor told the blue-eyed Californian that his family name may have come from sub-Saharan Africa, Mozingo set out on an epic journey to uncover the truth. He soon discovered that all Mozingos in America, including his father’s line, appeared to have descended from a black man named Edward Mozingo who was brought to America as a slave in 1644 and, after winning his freedom twenty-eight years later, became a tenant tobacco farmer, married a white woman, and fathered one of the country’s earliest mixed-race family lineages. Tugging at the buried thread of his origins, Joe Mozingo has unearthed a saga that encompasses the full sweep of America’s history and lays bare the country’s tortured and paradoxical experience with race. Haunting and beautiful, Mozingo’s memoir paints a world where the lines based on color are both illusory and life altering. He traces his family line from the ravages of the slave trade to the mixed-race society of colonial Virginia and through the brutal imposition of racial laws.
Download or read book Sc nes de Gyn c es Figured Ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt written by Joanne Backhouse and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines images of women and children drawn on ostraca from Deir el-Medina, referred to in previous scholarship as ‘Scènes de Gynécées’. This publication represents the first systematic study of this material, and it brings together ostraca from museums worldwide to form a corpus united contextually, thematically and stylistically.
Download or read book The Background Series of English Readers Stories from the Hebrew and Greek written by Annina Periam Danton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom written by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Kingdom of Moyon Bujuur written by Rev Dr Koningthung Ngoru Moyon and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book The Lost Kingdom of Moyon (Bujuur): Iruwng (King) Kuurkam Ngoruw Moyon & The People of Manipur is not to produce a new history of Moyon, Who were earlier known as Bujuur, but rather to tell the true and authentical historical account of the Moyon people through the ages and centuries how their creator led them during their past lives. It also deals concerning kingship, and introduce the kingdom of God.
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Anthology of Myths Legends and Folktales from Cameroon written by Emmanuel Matateyou and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mythology study from Cameroon illuminates the performance contexts of the oral narratives in Subsaharan Africa. The study of the narrator, narrative pattern, audience interaction and details about language, setting, date, time of the performance of eact tale is very imporatant and helps to recreate the atmosphere of live performance. THrough translated inot ENglish, the author has made an effort to give to the oral narratives an indigenous flavour. This book is divided into categories such as origin stories, stories about men and women, and trickster cycles.
Download or read book West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century written by Daryll Forde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.
