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...Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears ...

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...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ... driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in G... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...same which is used to clothe their idols. He was now made one of their titular deities, and when he directly afterwards went on shore, he was receive... ... the ceremonies, and by them Cook had been elevated to a god. Being one of the deities, it was now no trouble for Cook to command the people and exact...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ntury AD onwards. Today Buddhism is a minority religion in India, although north and eastwards throughout all of Asia it has become the dominant relig... ...ily, when I lost footing as I was fording the Mekong River, near Rakshi in Northern Tibet. When I reached the shore, in a few minutes my clothes froze... ...GINS Christianity had its origins in Palestine and the areas imme- diately north. In the first century AD this area was one of the outposts of the Rom... ...RICAN INDIAN BELIEF 183 has orenda suitable to deity-kind. (Hewitt leaves deities out of his examples, but the Iroquois Creation myth, i.e., sacred a... ...on myth, i.e., sacred ac- count, to be presented later, shows at least two deities possessing respectively a good and a bad orenda; that is, their dei... ...nd we have added to this further “Thous” or persons consisting of putative deities and even of corporate, po- litical entities such as the Iroquois Le...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ... life was spent in these bus rides, fate was not bad. He could be a starving North Korean or one of the dead soldiers who got their submarine trapped ... ...adows with the gods. He knew there was genius to be gained in the company of deities so wild. He had left his mother's home and his mother country t... ...nored the dirt from whence all carbon molecules spring into life. "Koreans--North Koreans or South Koreans?" asked Sang Huin as he propped part of hi... ...ontinuing menace of Saddam Husein, incursions into the demilitarized zone by North Korea, the Yonsei University student demonstrations, the conviction...

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...(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPIN... ...THE PHYSICS American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ... ...wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA E-mail: M_L_Pere... ... places, couldn′t lead the Jewish people towards the Red Sea, but further north, towards the Promised Land, so it is likely that the Jews crossed on... ... his people, did not actually head towards the Read Sea, but much further north. This means that in fact the Santorin hypothesis questions the verac... ...humans, less potent from the energomental point of view, seemed to be true deities. 38 Solving in this fashion the matters of extraterrestrial bei...

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...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ed the use of irrigation, pesticides and fertilizers, and transformed the northwestern plains into India‘s breadbasket. Between 1968 and 1998, the p... ... warming is increasing these and is moving the territories of these pests northward. ―Another problem occurs when other toxins enter the wate... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ...rnmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to follow India‘s lead... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ...e Universal Oneness, so we commonly worship aspects of the Oneness in the deities that the sacred scriptures mention. And rather than a heavenly goal... ...ortant part in tantric devotion. The masses can relate better to separate deities just as they can relate to separate people. Of course, as it has ev...

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...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...he Christians rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered North Africa, India, and Spain and forced major societal changes. When tr... ...ho can be prayed to for impossible favors or blamed for catastrophes. Such deities or forces of nature seem to be found in every primitive group. An...

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...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ...m the original Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver th... ...of a few lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...lace. As human cultures increasingly separated themselves from Nature: their Deities began to mirror civilized existence instead of Nature. Their ... ...e fucking culture from the older gods, and inventing a new set of destructive deities from the brain of the older deity; Titan. This was their new... ... mouthpieces of their dead, departed ancestors, or whatever unseen spirits or deities that tribe happened to worship… they became a special, privil...

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...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ...ellect such beliefs were when there was no evidence of intervention by the deities in life's barbarism and injustices, unless it were in the injustice... ... subconscious muck like a Burmese refugee to a sylvan camp in one of those northern provinces, he stared into his mirrored eyes deeply. He concentrate... ...re eating bits of the sky seems odder than any pelicans migrating this far north." She got out of the car and went to them, her birds, as nearly as sh... ...le like himself, obscene drawings of human denizens; but then he was going northeast to the sleepiest of the world's comatose capitals, Vientiane. Wha... ...ere of complete indifference, or admitting as much, but that this deity or deities designated greater plans that entailed human suffering and tragedy....

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...o July 13, 1519 My father and mother welcomed me home. Father gave me a northlight room, on the third floor. I will place my easel near the window... ...ries: Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When it pleases their deities to take a man’s woman from him, it shows the tailors of the earth;... ...t we may, lovers in peace, lead on our days to age: I am constant as the northern star, of whose true-fixed and resting Quality there is no fellow ... ...rowing time, those bronzes, our return, our boat bucking seas, sending us north, ice off the larboard, back to reality, debts, conniving. We said go...

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...llels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices o...

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... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...dwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews) 20 About exper... ...Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53 * Ban Mae Kong Nya, village of northern plains 57 * Ban Dong, the last forest village 58 Village hous... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth... ...third was payanat and the fourth payakyt. The chief angel asked these four deities to help, so the boy would become a monk. The task of the first was ...

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...cumstance with the odds heavily stacked against those who live far to the North. They invent all kinds of long words to describe things they don’t u... ...in a good mood, and bring blue skies and sunshine wherever they go. Other deities f nd it hard to get out of bed in the morning, and when they do th... ..., has short, brown hair, blue eyes and was last seen in a taxi heading to north London.’ The teenager surfaced from counting his friends on his Fone ... ...which way to go but then saw the pigeon sweeping in front of him, heading north. Theo pedalled along the pavement as fast as he could, anxious to put... ...emen, this is your captain speaking once more. We have a request from the American authorities for Mr Amir and Prakash Vishal to come to the front o... ... been recovered in New York, the showcase for Freedom, De- mocracy and the American Way. He hoped that voters would remember that when it came to his...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...oughts to the Future. 26 Democracy in America Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, ... ...n where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of Nort... ... men are broken up into very unequal ranks, they are apt to devise as many deities as there are na- tions, castes, classes, or families, and to trace ...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...hat editor and his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., i... ...eelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solem... ... but idealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal ... ...the world, lay in the pagan practice of evocation, applied to the tutelary deities of such a state. These deities might be lured by certain rites and ...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...utes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a dri... ...a- bic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steame... ...n which to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north- west, and all sails aiding the engine. The steamer rolled but little... ...utions. These were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu, the solar god, Shiva, the divine imper- sonation of n... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ...

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...stared, focused glasses, and wrangled over charts; and the sun was overhead and the land close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, li... ...rison in my mind, I was struck to remember the sluttish mounds of turf and stone in which I have sat and been entertained 13 Robert Louis Stevenson i... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...tot of grog served out before a ship goes into action. 42 In The South Seas My purpose in this visit led me first to the boys’ school, for Hatiheu is... ... whole, pious and debauched, intelligent and dull, all men believe in ghosts, all men combine with their recent Christianity fear of and a lingering f... ...d been more than a fortnight buried, and his vam- pire was still supposed to go the rounds. Of the lost state of the dead, from the lurid Mangaian leg...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...on, in this softer climate, is less abrupt than the inhabitant of the cold North is accustomed to observe. Beginning earlier, —even in February,—Sprin... ...ton mill, I wonder?” “The good people would pull down those rampant marble deities,” said Kenyon, “and, possibly, they would give me a commission to c...

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...he arches of the bridge, breaking to wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower... ...e mood of meditation, to direct his gaze off the bridge along the waterway North-eastward without beholding as an eye the glow of whitebait’s bow-wind... ...e Bacchus of auspi- cious birth induces ever to the worship of the loftier Deities. Think as you will; forbear to come hauling up examples of malariou... ...en ran the banks about, and a beechwood fringed with birches curtained the Northward length: morning sun and evening had a fair face of water to paint... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s...

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...r course was suddenly altered for La Dominica, or Hivarhoo, an island just north of the one we had quitted. The object of this, as we learned, was to ... ...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ...ic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic. We soon found ourselves battling with the waves, while the ... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...u please, clothing, may be entirely dispensed with. How different our hard northern latitudes! Alas! the lot of a “poor devil,” twenty degrees north o... ...roa, the Saturn of the Polynesian mythology, and cousin-german to inferior deities. His person was thrice holy; if he entered an ordinary dwelling, ne...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ... pointing. If I were now imprisoned on a mountain summit a hun dred miles northward of this point, and was denied a time piece, I could get along we... ...in: America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey. North America is separated by Spain. America consists from north to south a... ... upon examination that the jewels are of the sort that are manufactured at North Adams, Mass. I haven’t any idea that Shakespeare will have to vacate ... ...nd rather sly idea miscarried: for by the simple process of spelling his deities with capitals the Hindu confiscates the definition and restricts it...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...on, in this softer climate, is less abrupt than the inhabitant of the cold North is accustomed to observe. Beginning earlier, —even in February,—Sprin... ...ton mill, I wonder?” “The good people would pull down those rampant marble deities,” said Kenyon, “and, possibly, they would give me a commission to c... ... lovely, if unsubstantial, of a Golden Age. In those delicious times, when deities and demi- gods appeared familiarly on earth, mingling with its inha... ...heart, I have found great use in clouds. Such silvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figure... ... blue sunny sky still gazes down, as it used to gaze when there were Roman deities in the antique niches. She went into every church that rose before ...