Journeys through dreamtime Oceanian myths
Retells myths and legends from the cultures of Oceania, focusing on the aborigines of Australia.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Time-Life Books, BV,
©1999.
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| Series: | Myth and mankind.
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Table of Contents:
- An Unseen World:
- The first Australasians
- Native New Guinea
- The Melanesian melting pot
- The Pacific adventures
- A Timeless Land:
- Dreaming the earth
- Deluge of destruction
- The serpent and the rainbow
- Spirit of the ancestral sisters
- Creator of bounty and abundance
- The Melatji law dogs
- The making of humankind
- Rich ochres of Parachilna
- Conceiving clans and cultures
- The powers of sibling pairs
- Picture essay: the battle of Uluru
- The Rich Cycle of Life:
- The unity of people and nature
- A living water source
- The greatest gift
- The embodiment of the eaglehawk
- The diversity of birds
- A story-filled landscape
- Koopoo the first kangaroo
- Gifts of swamp and sea
- Wonders of the heavens
- Turning the world upside-down
- Mysteries of the spirit world
- Death's inevitability
- Picture essay:ancestral dances
- The Myriad Beliefs of Melanesia:
- Life and the loss of immortality
- Deeds of the heroes
- A world of men and women
- Respect for the animals
- A Fijian hierarchy
- Afek the spirit heroine
- Picture essay: sanctums of the spirits
- Polynesian Paradise:
- The seeds of life
- Ingredients of the Universe
- Rangi and Papa, creators supreme
- The quarrelsome elements
- First man Tiki
- A dynasty of nobles
- Artistry in wood and flesh
- The annual cycle of Ku and Lono
- Powers to destroy and powers to heal
- Springboard to the Eastern Pacific
- The closeness of the sea
- Maui the trickster hero
- The afterworld
- The mysteries of Easter island
- Picture essay: the beauty of tattooing
- The Oceanian legacy:
- Glossary and index.
