Nine visits to the mythworld
By: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas ; translated by Robert Bringhurst.
Contributors: Bringhurst, Robert.
Series: Masterworks of the classical Haida mythtellers ;; v. 2
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Haida mythology -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands; Haida poetry -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands -- Translations into English; Haida Indians -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands -- Folklore; Legends -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands
Genres: Translations into English.; Folklore.
Description: "Nearly all of the poems in this volume are qqaygaang, narrative poems set in Haida myth time. One story, "The Names of Their Gambling Sticks," is a qqayaagaang, a story that juxtaposes myth time and historical time and establishes a legendary basis for prerogatives of two Haida families. Each poem creatively enacts a myth in a way that illuminates and celebrates the traditional world of the Haidas and reveals Ghandl's own acute sense of the foibles and great potential of all human beings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222).