classical qiighawaay masterworks

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Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, ...

1 review

University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Spooky and profound
Robert Bringhurst devoted separate volumes to two great poets, Skaay (I'll leave out the lineage name) and Ghandl. Of the two, Ghandl is the easier. His poems are short, focused, intense and memorable. They're often eerie like nightfall on the water. But they're far more than entertainment. Like all real myths, they point to things that can't be stated outright; they teach us ways of finding ...

Being in Being : The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller (Skaay of the Qquuna

1 review

University of Nebraska Press, 2002

The next best thing to a seat near the fire
All of Robert Bringhurst's translations of Haida myth are essential reading. None is more strange, beautiful, majestic, nasty, and comprehensive than this third volume, which contains brilliant translations of two vast epics by Skaay, the most impressive of the mythtellers whose Haida was transcribed as well as translated by an anthropologist at the turn of the last century. Skaay was a ...

Being in being: The collected works of Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay (Masterworks of the classical Haida ...
Skaay

Douglas & McIntyre, 2001

The Wisdom of the Mythtellers

2 reviews
Sean Kane

Broadview Press, 1998

One of the best books on mythtelling ever
Kane's perspective of mythtelling as a human dialogue with nature seems an idea so obvious that at least some in long line of scholars who dealt with myth before him must have hit upon it. Not quite so. Though this connection between what we would now call environmental awareness and the stories a culture tells itself has been bandied about in earlier works, The Wisdom of The Mythtellers is ...

Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World

2 reviews
Robert Bringhurst

Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd, 1999

The first volume in an essential series
There's no reason to withhold the fifth star! The poet, linguist, and typographer Robert Bringhurst worked from transcriptions of Haida myths recorded at the beginning of the twentieth century, and allows those of us who don't speak Haida a chance to sit and listen to some of that nation's great mythtellers. We can never recover what it was like for their compatriots to hear these poems, but the ...