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How raven got his crooked nose : an Alaskan Dena'ina fable
\"Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way\"--Provided by publisher.
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The mythological Norse ravens Huginn and Muninn: Interrogators of the newly slain
In preference to the common assumption that Óðinn’s ravens daily gather general information from around the world and report back to their master, this study identifies their principal informants as the newly dead (recently slain warriors and hanged men), and the information gathered not simply wisdom but tactical intelligence needed for the eventual cataclysmic battle of Ragnarǫk, in which Óðinn’s troop of fallen warriors, the Einherjar of Valhǫll (named in Gylfaginning in the same context as the ravens), will also participate. The study addresses the central questions of chthonic wisdom, of how the dead (are presumed to) know what is hidden from the living, and why Snorri, in contrast to the skalds, paints an innocuous picture of the ravens.
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The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial
The Anthropocene is rooted in the proposition that human activity has disrupted earth systems to the extent that it has caused us to enter a new geological age. We identify three popular discourses of what the Anthropocene means for humanity's future: the Moral Jeremiad admonishes the transgression of planetary boundaries and advocates reductions to live sustainably within Earth's limits; the Technofix Earth Engineer approach depicts the Age of Humanity as an engineering opportunity to be met with innovative technological solutions to offset negative impacts; and the New Genesis discourse advocates re-enchantment of humanity's connections to earth. By contrast, we find that in many indigenous and premodern narratives and myths disseminated across the North Pacific and East Asia, it is the trickster-demiurge Raven that is most closely linked to environmental change and adaptation. Whereas Raven tales among northern Pacific indigenous communities emphasize a moral ecology of interdependence, creative adaptation, and resilience through practical knowledge (mētis), robustly centralizing Zhou Dynasty elites transposed early Chinese Raven trickster myths with tales lauding the human subjugation of nature. Raven and his fate across the northern Pacific reminds us that narratives of environmental crisis, as opposed to narratives of environmental change, legitimate attempts to invest power and authority in the hands of elites, and justify their commandeering of technological xes in the name of salvation.
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The Tower Ravens: Invented Tradition, Fakelore, or Modern Myth?
Tourists are told that ravens at the Tower of London first had their wings clipped in the reign of Charles II, who heard an ancient prophesy that Britain would fall if they left. In fact, the tower ravens are entirely a Victorian institution. This paper examines their legend as an invented tradition, as fakelore, and as a modern myth. It finds that the tale has some authentic basis in legend, but commercial exploitation has prevented it from fully developing. The paper concludes by proposing a colony of ravens might be kept in the Tower without coercion, and they could be allowed to leave or return, thus always generating new stories.
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The use of a Performance Assessment for Identifying Gifted Lebanese Students: Is DISCOVER Effective?
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of DISCOVER, a performance-based assessment in identifying gifted Lebanese students. The sample consisted of 248 students (121 boys, 127 girls) from Grades 3–5 at two private schools in Beirut, Lebanon. Students were administered DISCOVER and the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM). Teachers and parents of identified students were interviewed. Results showed evidence for DISCOVER's concurrent validity with RSPM, as correlations between students' DISCOVER ratings in spatial intelligence and their Raven scores were high, whereas correlations between students' DISCOVER ratings in linguistic intelligences and their Raven scores were low. Parents' and teachers' interviews corroborated the results, with a few exceptions. Of the total sample, 14.5% were identified, with no gender differences. The researcher concluded that DISCOVER could be used effectively in Lebanon for identification purposes, but further research is needed to support the findings.
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Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered
This note is dedicated to the study of the motif of raven as a scavenging post-Flood scout and its \"White Raven\" version. In her monograph The Raven and the Carcass, Anna Birgitta Rooth proposed that this motif was brought to all parts of the New World from Western Europe by Catholic missionaries. The article suggests that both \"The Raven and the Carcass\" motif and its \"White Raven\" version existed in the New World prior to the European colonization ofAmericas.
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\Det kommo tvänne dufvor...\: Doves, Ravens, and the Dead in Scandinavian Folk Tradition
Sands says it is probably safe to say that most admirers of Scandinavian folk ballads are familiar with the final stanzas of the most widely known variants of \"Liten Karin.\" The author analyzes the folk ballad.
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IVAN TSAREVICH AND KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS
In a certain tsardom, in a certain country—indeed in the one in which we live—on a flat place like on a harrow, about two hundred versts away, there lived and dwelt a tsar. This tsar had three daughters and a son, Ivan. So then the eldest daughter grew up and took it into her head to go out walking in the open steppe to see people and to show herself.
So they went out into the open steppe to walk, a fierce storm arose, seized our maiden, and carried her off no one knows where. All the nannies,
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Agreement between Biological Classification Systems Is Not Dependent on Cultural Transmission
A test of the hypothesis that culturally diverse groups have similar biological classification systems that are based on common inferences drawn from experience rather than direct cultural transmission. Two sorting experiments involving different South American bird specimens (both passerine & nonpasserine) were conducted with 82 students at the U of Kentucky, & results were compared with the perceptions of judges more familiar with the birds -- Jivaro Amerindians of the Peruvian tropical forest & scientific ornithologists (N not provided). Findings support the hypothesis & those of previous research: humans universally perceive the natural order in the same way, which determines the structure of their folk biological classification systems; alternative classifications are similar only to the extent that the natural order is clear. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 15 References. K. Hyatt
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The Raven: Sky Prophet
Ravens, belonging to the crow family, are one of the most intelligent species of bird. From Poe's raven claiming \"Nevermore,\" to the raven Noah sent from the ark in the Bible, these birds are often referred to and used in literature, especially myth and folklore. The Raven's characteristics are presented and its use in literature is explored.
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