Voices of the ancestors African myth
A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam [Netherlands] :
Time-Life Books,
©1999.
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| Series: | Myth and mankind.
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Table of Contents:
- Cradle of mankind (Africa and its peoples
- Picture essay: Ancient palaces of the kings)
- Wonders of creation (Oldest tales of the San
- The separation of Heaven and Earth
- Making the earth
- Ancestors of mankind
- The duality of twinship
- The origin of cattle
- Life's staples of food and fire
- Ancient serpent beings
- Picture essay: Scars of ancestry)
- An ordered world (The coming of death
- Living in terror of witches
- Seeking sanctuary from shapeshifters
- The diviner's secret arts
- Brotherhoods of the initiates
- The roles of men and women
- Learning lessons from the animals
- Picture essay: Death's rich ritual)
- Heroes and tricksters (The epic songs of the bards
- Wonderful children
- Lonkundo the hunter
- Son of Death
- The blacksmith culture heroes
- Anarchic first man
- Unwitting agents of order
- Keen wits of Ananse
- Hlakanyana the Zulu trickster
- Legba the lecher god
- The outwitting of the mischief-maker
- Dark spirits of the forest fastnesses
- Picture essay: The mystique of masks)
- Kingdoms and empires (The kings who came from the sky
- The vanishing city
- The lion of Manding
- The Queen of Sheba's son
- The wise and peaceful king
- A hero betrayed)
- The African legacy.
