Nine visits to the mythworld

Ghandl. (Author). Bringhurst, Robert. (Added Author).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803213166 (cloth)
ISBN: 0803213166 (cloth)
Physical Description: print
222 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222).

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The Blind Poet of Sunshine and Sealion Town -- 1. The Way the Weather Chose to Be Born -- 2. Spirit Being Living in the Little Finger -- 3. In His Father's Village, Someone Was Just About to Go Out Hunting Birds -- 4. The Sealion Hunter -- 5. The Myth of the One Who Got Rid of Nine of His Nephews -- 6. Those Who Stay a Long Way Out to Sea -- 7. Hlagwajiina and His Family -- 8. The Names of Their Gambling Sticks -- 9. A Red Feather -- Appendix. Haida Spelling and Pronunciation.