Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania

Jerome Rothenberg

University of California Press, 1985 - Fiction - 636 pages

Contents

• Kato Indian: 7
• Maori New Zealand: 14
• Aztec Definitions: 20
• The Pictures: 26
• To the God of Fire as a Horse India: 44
• How Isaac Tens Became a Shaman Gitksan Indian: 50
• The Dog Vision Sioux Indian Lakota: 58
• The Dream of Enkidu Mesopotamia: 65
• Spell Against Jaundice Serbian: 71
• Offering Flowers Aztec: 82
• When Hare Heard of Death Winnebago Indian: 89
• The Story of the Leopard Tortoise Bushman Africa: 95
• The String Game Bushman Africa: 104
• Improvised Song Against a White: 107
• Lily Events Arnhem Land Australia: 113
• GoingAround Event Asiatic Eskimo: 119
• Peacemaking Event Andaman Islands: 126
• Taming the Storm Copper Eskimo: 135
• A Dialogue for God: 144
• Ghosts Shadows Gabon Pygmy: 149
• The Comet Ekoi: 157
• for Kodzo Others Ewe: 164
• Seven PraiseMottoes Dogon: 170
• Ika Meji Yoruba: 181
• Voice of the Karaw Bamana: 191
• Mide Songs PictureSongs Ojibwa: 205
• Three Teton Sioux Songs: 213
• Song of the Humpbacked Flute Player Hopi: 219
• A Song of the Winds Seri: 226
• The Painted Book Nahuatl Texcoco: 233
• BloodGirl the Chiefs: 240
• From Inatoipippiler Cuna: 246
• Poems for a Carnival Quechua: 254
• The Machi Exorcises the Spirit Huecuve Araucanian: 260
• The Quest of Milarepa Tibetan: 271
• From The Nine Songs Chinese: 278
• A Shaman Vision Poem Chinese: 286
• A Song of the Spider Goddess Ainu: 293
• Things Seen by the Shaman Karawe Chukchee: 301
• Mantra for Binding a Witch Baiga India: 309
• For the Lord of Caves Kannada India: 317
• The Battle Between Anat the Forces of: 324
• Song of the Arval Brothers Roman: 333
• A Song of Amergin Irish: 341
• The Nine Herbs Charm AngloSaxon: 347
• Odins Shaman Song Icelandic: 353
• Blood River Shaman Chant Nenets: 359
• The Message of King Sakis the Legend of the Twelve: 364
• Deep Song Spanish Gypsy: 372
• Twelve Kura Songs from Tikopia: 379
• The Gumagabu Song Trobriand Islands New Guinea: 385
• The Daybreak Mudbara Australia: 391
• The First Truck at Tambrey Jindjiparndi Australia: 403
• The Woman Who Married a Caterpillar: 411
• The Lovers I Kapingamarangi Polynesia: 417
• Animal Story X Fiji Melanesia: 423
• The Girl of the Early Race Who Made the Stars: 472
• A Poem for the Wind Welsh: 480
• War Gods Horse Song I Navajo Indian: 512

Bibliographic information

• Title: Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania; poetry, anthropology
• Editor: Jerome Rothenberg
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1985
• ISBN: 0520049004, 9780520049000
• Length: 636 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology