By Robert Holdstock
ISBN-10: 0765307316
ISBN-13: 9780765307316
A haunting access on this planet myth Award-winning Mythago Cycle
In Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock gave us an tricky global spun from the tales of Irish and English mythology, a very good wooded area steeped in secret and legend, whose middle comprises secrets and techniques that might swap all who behold them.
Young Tallis is one such seeker. whilst she was once simply an toddler, she misplaced her brother Harry to Ryhope wooden. Her adolescent fancies now reason her to suspect that he's nonetheless alive---and in grave possibility. Tallis follows Harry into the primal Otherworld armed purely with magic, mask, and clues left through her grandfather. ultimately the primitive wooded area supplies technique to Lavondyss itself, a desirable and bad realm the place she is pressured to confront the mythagos, actual manifestations of the legends of humanity's collective unconscious.
Join Tallis on her quest into the last word unknown, and be invited into one of many most interesting and such a lot compelling mythologies you are going to ever come across.
"A stunningly reliable publication . . . conveys the haunting energy of outdated heroes and misplaced gods."
--Locus
"Magical . . . it's infrequent to discover a sequel which measures as much as its unique; yet Lavondyss surpasses it."
--Times Literary Supplement
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Yet in 1993, the local government was planning to reconstruct the Nüwa temple because the government Introduction now believes that the worship of human ancestors (Fuxi and Nüwa) can be a cultural resource and can attract tourists and donations. This has encouraged folk beliefs and caused a folk-culture revival. During the lunar cycle from February 2 to March 3, a festival now is held at the Renzu Temple complex to celebrate Fuxi’s birthday. The festival draws tens of thousands of pilgrims daily from nearby villages, counties, and provinces.
Myths in Other Ethnic Groups The Richness of Myth in China’s Ethnic Minorities Many Western readers think China is a single-ethnic country and that Chinese mythology is equally unified, integrated, and homogenous. In addition, because the Han people make up the majority of the population in China, when some Western scholars introduce Chinese myths they usually discuss only the myths of the Han people. But in fact, China has 56 ethnic groups including the Han. Since China boasts many ethnic groups, and almost every ethnic group has its own body of myths, myths spread in the modern geographic boundaries of China are rich not only in amount but also in types, themes, and motifs.
Among his knowledge about Yi epics, the Hnewo epic tradition is significant. Hnewo can be chanted at weddings, funerals, and during soul-sending ceremonies in the specific narrative form of kenre. It has two forms, female and male. The male parts are all about heaven, and the female parts are all about the earth. There are twelve acts in the female part, which are used especially in wedding ceremonies. There are seven acts in the male part, generally used in funerals and in ceremonies one or two years after a funeral to send the ghost away to the ancestors.
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