Hopi Tales of Destruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hopi Tales of Destruction write by Ekkehart Malotki. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Hopi Tales of Destruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The tales concern such villages as Sikyatki, Hisatsongoopavi, and Awat'ovi, which were destroyed by war, fire, earthquake, or internal strife. Though abandoned for centuries, they live in memory, reminders of ancient tragedies and enmities that changed the Hopis forever. Related by storytellers from Second and Third Mesa, these tales vividly describe village destruction and show how much human evils such as witchcraft, hubris, corruption and betrayal of fundamental values can precipitate social disintegration and chaos."--BOOK JACKET.
Hopi Coyote Tales
Hopi Coyote Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hopi Coyote Tales write by Ekkehart Malotki. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Hopi Coyote Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. To nomadic hunters such as the Navajo, who competed with him on the open range, Coyote was by turns a formidable trickster, a demonic witchperson, and a god. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool. In these tales Coyote is a friendly bumbler whose mistakes teach listeners what tricks to avoid. Time after time he is hurt or killed for failing to understand a situation correctly. The collection is as amusing as animal fables should be, as simply told, and as instructive. Published as a companion volume to Father Berard Haile's Navajo Coyote Tales, Hopi Coyote Tales is a valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies.
Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic
Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic write by Ekkehart Malotki. This book was released on 2006-02-01. Hopi Stories of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The traditional Hopi world, as reflected in Hopi oral literature, is infused with magic?a seamless tapestry of everyday life and the supernatural. That magic and wonder are vividly depicted in this marvelous collection of authentic folktales. For the Hopis, the spoken or sung word can have a magical effect on others. Witchcraft?the wielding of magic for selfish purposes by a powaqa, or sorcerer?has long been a powerful, malevolent force. Sorcerers are said to have the ability to change into animals such as a crow, a coyote, a bat, or a skeleton fly, and hold their meetings in a two-tiered kiva to the northeast of Hopi territory. Shamanism, the more benevolent but equally powerful use of magic for healing, was once commonplace but is no longer practiced among the Hopis. Shamans, or povosyaqam, often used animal familiars and quartz crystals to help them to see, diagnose, and cure illnesses. Spun through these tales are supernatural beings, otherworldly landscapes, magical devices and medicines, and shamans and witches. One story tells about a man who follows his wife one night and discovers that she is a witch, while another relates how a jealous woman uses the guise of an owl to make a rival woman's baby sick. Other tales include the account of a boy who is killed by kachinas and then resurrected as a medicine man and the story of a huge rattlesnake, a giant bear, and a mountain lion that forever guard the entrance to Maski, the Land of the Dead.
Maasaw
Maasaw - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maasaw write by Ekkehart Malotki. This book was released on 1987. Maasaw available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kokopelli
Kokopelli - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kokopelli write by Ekkehart Malotki. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Kokopelli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kokopelli the flute player is one of the most popular icons that American culture has adopted from the Native peoples of North America. The Kokopelli name and image are everywhere, adorning everything from jewelry, welcome mats, T-shirts, and money clips to motels, freeway underpasses, nature trails, nightclubs, and string quartets. Kokopelli evokes mystery and wonder, ancient ceremonies andøspirituality, Mother Earth and the purity of nature. But what exactly is Kokopelli? Just how Native American is this ubiquitous flute player? In this fascinating book, the distinguished scholar of Hopi culture and history Ekkehart Malotki describes the development of the Kokopelli phenomenon in American mass culture from its beginning to Kokopelli?s present status as pan-Southwestern icon. He explores the figure?s connections with the Hopi kachina god Kookop”l” and Maahu, the cicada, and discusses how this rock-art image has been appropriated and misunderstood. Kokopelli sheds light on a little-understood aspect of Hopi culture and testifies to the continuing power of Native cultures to spark the popular imagination and interest of outsiders.
