By Bob Curran
ISBN-10: 1564149587
ISBN-13: 9781564149589
There are areas that ensue in literature or in film--mystical and mythical locations whose names can be usual yet approximately which we all know little. We nod knowingly on the reference, yet are usually left puzzling over approximately locations corresponding to Atlantis, the misplaced land crushed by way of the ocean, or El Dorado, the very good urban that vanished someplace within the South American jungles. different names are extra evocative--Mount Olympus, the backyard of Eden, the mystic Isle of Avalon, and Davy Jones' Locker. yet did such locations really exist and if that is so, the place have been they, and what particularly occurred? What are the traditions and legends linked to them? within the attention-grabbing new publication, misplaced Lands, Forgotten nation-states, historian Dr. Bob Curran units out to discover the solutions through visiting to the far-flung corners of the realm and to the outer reaches of human mind's eye. within you are going to: * Climb the excessive mountains looking for the legendary Shangri-La * Navigate the deep swamps and jungles in a quest for the Seven towns of Cibola * go back and forth to the depths of the darkish oceans to appear for sunken lands akin to Lemuria and Lyonesse * event unspeakable hazard in a realm not often visited through men--the subterranean lair of Judaculla * observe the secrets and techniques of Heliopolis, Yggradsil, Hy Brasail, the dominion of Prester John, Llyobia, and the hole Hills. choked with lavish illustrations by means of acclaimed artist Ian Daniels, misplaced Lands, Forgotten nation-states takes you on a superb and infrequently terrifying trip, combining mythological and mythical stories with ancient truth.
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He is forever theatrical. He creates theater in the world that we know, the real world. Without that frame, Trickster’s antics are merely obscene and silly. But within that frame, he becomes significant and eternal. Trickster makes the flawed moment eternal. He ties us to our ancestral past. But within the tradition of the people, he is destroying one part of us and creating another part; he is recreating us, reshaping us, but always within the tradition of the people. We have to differentiate between our own history and the tradition within which that history unfolds.
But there are other tensions, too—those, for example, of the unfulfilled work of art; the entire experience is in tension until the completion of the work, when it lingers for a moment, then vanishes. There is also a tension between the worlds of experience and art, essential to the perceptual processes of the work of art. And there are tensions within the work too, on the level of conflict and resolution, the tensions that exist among the various characters and actions of the developing drama. There is tension generated by the process of metaphor, between the surface of the work of art and the perceptual elements generated by bringing various narratives into conjunction.
He went on, and arrived at his father-in-law’s place. He had been expected, and he was given some beer. As he was swallowing it, the feces said, “Give me some to drink, Hlakanyana! ” Hlakanyana pressed the feces down with his hand, pressed it into his pocket. It was quiet then, and it again went down into the pocket. ” He pushed it down into his pocket. Again the feces came out of his pocket and disappeared in a pot. Hlakanyana ran, even leaving his hat behind! He went home, he arrived at his home.
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