By Penelope Farmer
ISBN-10: 0689501013
ISBN-13: 9780689501012
In introducing this extraordinary anthology, Penelope Farmer defines fantasy as "a curious phenomenon altogether, tricky as leather-based, frafgile as glass. rarely a narrative bears logical research, can't be shattered by way of a blow from a pointy brain; but the very subsequent minute is entire again." She is going directly to speak about the attention-grabbing transformations in addition to the unbelievable likenesses within the ways that humans have attempted to give an explanation for their international and their reports from the very starting of time.
Penelope Farmer has accrued over 80 tales and poems from eire, Russian, Iceland, India, critical and South the US, Australia and Borneo--to identify yet a number of the international locations which are represented. The production myths are grouped below the headings Earth, Man, Flood, Fire, Death, Food Plants, and The finish and the Beginning. The temper of every subject is stuck in a robust woodcut representation via the prestigious artist, Antonio Frasconi, and in an illuminating brief preface.
Out of her lifelong curiosity in myths, Penelope Farmer, the proficient English author recognized for her novels for youth, has amassed a desirable and strange assortment. this can be a ebook to be precious by way of readers from younger maturity on--to be dipped into repeatedly, at diverse instances and in numerous moods, to learn aloud or to get pleasure from on my own, all through an entire life.
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Seven years passed. Each tree grew seven branches, one branch remained 'How is just as that for each year, but each man he was, showed no increase. 'How can asked God. ' they increase,' said Maidere, 'Then you'd better come down from your golden mountain and make them one,' said God. So Maidere came down from his golden mountain, and started to create woman. But he could only fashion her body, he could not breathe life into it. Off he went anyone near as loud as Ulgen, leaving to find her,' he said.
So Tane married Mumuhango and soon she was pregnant. Tane was delighted. But when her time came Mumuhango did not give birth to a man, only a totara-tree. Tane wept and went back to good will his mother. factory, Papa said, 'Well how about your I can see that it is not altogether satis- ancestress Hine-tu-a-maunga instead ? ' So Tane climbed the mountain and married his ancestress Hine-tu-a-maunga, and she became pregnant in her turn, but she too produced no man-child only rusty water and Man 31 a mountain for you Tane went back lizard.
Water to capsize their boats. Remain silent, Fam is listening, To bring misfortune; Remain silent. AFRICA, 5 In the beginning there were three hills GABON Fang and two beings of different sexes but without earthly appetites born of these parents, the water and the The earth. watched them Creator for a while. named them Yatam and He Yatai and decided that they would make good parents for mankind. So he dropped three gourds from heaven and the two beings became hungry and ate which they spat out and planted by a big them, all but the seeds rock.
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