The Mysterious Cobras Myths And Stories Of The Cobra Snakes Like Never Been Told
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The Mysterious Cobras, Myths and Stories of the Cobra Snakes, Like Never Been Told. by AGHA GUL Pdf
"Suddenly the clouds covered the moonlit skies, everything went utmost dark, I could still hear the cobra following me on the dry leaves, and felt it was gaining up on me and getting closer and closer....." "when I was going through the tall grass, there was not a single soul around at 2;30 at night, but suddenly seeing this man appeared and then disappeared, sent shivers down my spine" "Seeing the cobras dancing in the moonlight around a precious stone with different lights comming out it left me dazed and awed" "The cobra girl was beautiful and smelling like the Raat-ki-Rani plant, which is their favorite place to hangout"
Author : The History Press Publisher : The History Press Page : 299 pages File Size : 44,7 Mb Release : 2020-03-19 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9780750994606
The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales by The History Press Pdf
Carefully selected stories from the celebrated Folk Tales series have been gathered here for this special volume. Herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers performing in the country today. From banshees, pookas and changelings to rainbows, fairies and leprechauns, this book celebrates the distinct character of Ireland's different customs, beliefs and dialects, and is a treat for all who enjoy a well-told story.
Roscommon has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from across the county.Here you will find tales of Queen Maeve, the famous warrior queen who had a home in Roscommon and the legend of the Giant Leabaigh’s Rock, along with stories of witches, hags, ghosts and fairies. In a vivid journey through Roscommon’s varied landscape, local storyteller Pat Watson takes the reader to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.
Author : Brenda E.F. Beck Publisher : University of Toronto Press Page : 510 pages File Size : 40,8 Mb Release : 2023-03-30 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9781487529369
Understanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines. In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than thirty-eight hours to complete over eighteen nights. Bringing this unique example of Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other culturally significant works – the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the Bible, and the Epic of Gilgamesh – establishing this foundational Tamil story as one that engages with the same universal human struggles and themes present throughout the world. Copiously illustrated, Hidden Paradigms provides a fresh example of the power of comparative thinking, offering a humanistic complement to scientific reasoning.
Snakes, People, and Spirits, Volume One by Robert Hazel Pdf
This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as “rampant” and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, snakes were held to be long-lived, closely related to holes, caverns, trees, and water, life and death, and credited with a liking for milk. Even though ophidian symbolism has always been developed out of the outstanding biological and ethological features of snakes, the process of symbolisation, which plays a crucial role in the elaboration of cultural systems and the shaping of human experience, was inevitably at work. This first volume deals with snakes as a zoological category; snake symbolism as perceived by encyclopaedists and psychologists; and ophidian symbolism as it occurred in ancient civilisations. It explores the traditional African scene in general with a view to set the scene for a more proximate baseline for comparison. The divide between animals and humans was porous, and snakes had a more or less equal footing in both the animal realm and the spiritual world. Key features of snake symbolism in traditional Eastern Africa are then examined in detail, especially phantasmagorical snakes, the rainbow serpent, snake-totems, and snake-related witches and ritual leaders, among others. In Eastern Africa, the meanings attributed to snakes were multifaceted and paradoxical. Overall, the two volumes of this publication show that African snake symbolism broadly echoed the diverse representations of ancient civilisations. The widely acknowledged assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is therefore unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
"Fascinating images accompany information about the king cobra. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.