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Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals

Book by Wallace L. Chafe; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961

Subjects:

Seneca Indians--Rites And Ceremonies, Seneca Language--Texts

Collections: History, Entire Library

...equivalent Thanksgiving Speech. This is the most ubiquitous of all Seneca rituals, for it opens and closes nearly every ceremony. The...wouldnt make sense to give thanks" in matters concerning death. A myth of its origin can be found in Hewitt 1928, pp. 568-570...
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Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals

Book by Wallace L. Chafe; U. S. Government Printing Office, 1961

Subjects:

Folklore, Indians Of North America, Seneca Indians--Rites And Ceremonies, Seneca Language--Texts

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...equivalent Thanksgiving Speech. This is the most ubiquitous of all Seneca rituals, for it opens and closes nearly every ceremony. The...wouldnt make sense to give thanks" in matters concerning death. A myth of its origin can be found in Hewitt 1928, pp. 568-570...
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Seneca: His Tenne Tragedies

Book by Thomas Newton, T. S. Eliot; Constable and Co., Ltd, 1927

Subjects:

Mythology, Classical--Drama, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus--Ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...SERIES EDITED BY CHARLES WHIBLEY XII SENECA HIS TENNE TRAGEDIES TRANSLATED INTO...GRAVE AND PRUDENT AUTHOR LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA ENTITULED TROAS WITH DIVERS AND SUNDRYE...piece of the flowre of all writers, Seneca, as who say, not fearing what graver...
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Seneca Myths and Folk Tales

Book by Arthur C. Parker; University of Nebraska Press, 1989

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--New York (State)--Folklore, Seneca Indians--Folklore

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the cosmological myth have since been...classification of Seneca folklore is best...character. He will trace myth diffusion thereby...elements of the Seneca story. There is...be credible. Any myth or legend that offended...rejected by the Seneca as spurious. To a...
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Seneca the Philosopher, and His Modern Message

Book by Richard Mott Gummere; Marshall Jones, 1922

Subjects:

Literature, Comparative--Classical And Modern, Literature, Comparative--Modern And Latin, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus--Ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...similarity was pushed to an extreme in two cases, the one, a myth of Messianic tendencies which was seriously discussed by a...ago, and the other a fabrication of a correspondence between Seneca and the Apostle Paul. The for gery a pious one, to be sure...

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"Manabozho": A Native American Resurrection Myth

Journal article by Nancy Tenfelde Clasby; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993

Subjects:

Myth in literature--Analysis, Native American literature--Analysis, Resurrection--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Psyche in her task of sorting grain are common in folktale and myth. Some psychologists think they represent repressed, underdeveloped...As-He-Walks who compensates for the heros shortcomings. The Seneca twins Flint and Sprout, and the Navaho pair, Monster-Slayer...
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Dreiser's 'The Financier' and the Horatio Alger Myth

Journal article by Alex Pitofsky; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 44, 1998

Subjects:

Alger, Horatio--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Capitalists and financiers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Dreiser, Theodore--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature, Modern--20th century, Men authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Financier (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fiction formulated "the Alger myth" by transforming the authors...Cowperwood charms his Uncle Seneca (an entrepreneur who has invested...odds with the moral cast of the myth of success which he is apparently...updated version of "the Alger myth" because it was published in...
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The Iroquois and the World's Rim: Speculations on Color, Culture, and Contact

Journal article by George R. Hamell; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 16, 1992

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America--Periodicals

Collections: Entire Library

...Anthropology 20 : 278-285. 1967 Seneca Morphology and Dictionary . Smithsonian...Woods-edge in Northern Iroquoian myth and ritual . 44p. Paper presented...the panther in Huron-Wyandot and Seneca myth, ritual, and material culture". 169p...
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Finding a Place for David Cusick in Native American Literary History

Journal article by Susan Kalter; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002

Subjects:

Cusick, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Iroquois--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Native American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Native Americans--History, Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Lost Tribe Theory. Like the myth that Africans had descended...terms apparently accepted by Seneca writers Strong and Pierce while...parties itself. Pierce defends the Seneca against savagism by showing...with ecumenism and labeling as myth the idea that old Iroquois faiths...
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From Longhouse to Loghouse: Household Structure Among the Senecas in 1900

Journal article by Nancy Shoemaker; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 15, 1991

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America

Collections: Entire Library

...life, it is not clear how they adapted and why. Writing about Seneca families in the 1960s, Anthony Wallace naturally wrote in...theory, both in vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, propagated the myth that all premodern societies had extended family structures...

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The Second Fall of Rome

Magazine article by Michael Lind; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 24, Winter 2000

Subjects:

Civilization, Classical--Influence, Civilization, Western--Sources, Latin literature--Influence, Rome (Ancient)--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...artificial dialect using only words Cicero used. Seneca inspired Renaissance tragedy, and his fellow...Jefferson, who believed in the populist myth of the democratic Anglo-Saxons, informed...audience in mind. Even more than Cicero, Seneca was a victim of the German romantic revaluation...
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The Melting Pot, Part 2 - America's Cultural-Institutional Core

Magazine article by Anne Wortham; World and I, Vol. 16, November 2001

Subjects:

Americanization--Social aspects, Assimilation (Sociology)--Social aspects, Assimilation--Social aspects, Social policy--Analysis, Social values--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...creedal identity. It is an old myth that existed even before accounts...creed. At their 1848 meeting at Seneca Falls, the crusaders for womens...discussion of elements of the myth of America is not meant to be...is "to free ourselves of the myth of America."54 In my agreement...
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The World of Achilles: Ancient Soldiers, Modern Warriors

Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The National Interest, Winter 2001

Subjects:

Civil-military relations--International aspects, International economic relations--Social aspects, Press and politics--International aspects, Terrorism--Social aspects, United States--Foreign relations

Collections: Entire Library

...by anger." We should pay attention to Seneca, because the American statesmen of the...that we approach casualty-free war as a myth, despite technological advances such as...contents in light of those events. (1.) See Senecas "On Anger" in his Moral and Political...
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Rome's Gossip Columnist: When the First-Century Poet Martial Turned His Stylus on You, You Got the Point

Magazine article by Garry Wills; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Epigrams--Analysis, Martial--Criticism and interpretation, Martial--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...snickering) sycophancy. Like his friends and fellow Spaniards Seneca and Lucan, Martial had to calculate the least degree of abasement...his amphitheater (later called the Colosseum). Though it is a myth that Christians were fed to lions in that huge colander of blood...
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In Medea Res: An Ancient Greek Femme Fatale Is the American Theatre's Passion of the Moment

Magazine article by Celia Wren; American Theatre, Vol. 19, April 2002

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics in literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Villains in literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...a somber presence in Senecas 1st-century tragedy...geopolitical aspects of the myth (the daughter of the king...take pot shots at Greek-myth cliches while relating...latter play, with its Seneca interpolations, links...suggesting that assaulting the myth these days can mean covering...

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Woman: Beyond the Adamic Myth; (Lecture Delivered during the First Luzviminda D. Puno Memorial Lecture, on December 6, 2007, at the University of the East, Manila.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 8, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...status and rights of women - beyond the myth of Adam! For Luz was indeed the compleat...to take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848. It was the...transformed to distance herself from the myth of Adam -- are liberal, radical, socialist...
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What the Indians Wanted but Didn't Get

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 26, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that she acted out of love for Smith - the myth being but a particularization of a general...Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca. During the Revolutionary War most Iroquois...into a few pockets of reserved land. The Seneca chief, Red Jacket, articulated the Indian...
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Burkittsville Braces for More Madness from 'Witch' Sequel

Newspaper article by Gerald Mizejewski; The Washington Times, October 27, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...youths who trek to Burkittsville to investigate the Blair Witch myth. But unlike the first film, the sequel does not try to fool...took place in other parts of Maryland, such as Baltimore and Seneca Creek Park near Gaithersburg. Burkittsville was indeed founded...
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Was Medea a Feminist? One Writer's View

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, April 26, 1998

Subjects:

Wolf, Christa

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...it thought necessary?), provides a brief summary of the Medea myth(s) and makes a pitch for Mrs. Wolfs version. The Canadian writer...varying embodiments down the millennia - Euripides to Ovid and Seneca, to Corneille, William Morris and Charles Kingsley - the point...
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Letters Editorial

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 17, 2007

Subjects:

Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...tests that screen for prostate cancer. He also perpetuates the myth that prostate cancer can be ignored because it is not likely...track and field facility in Blue River on property donated by Seneca Lumber Company. Students and community members have contributed...

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Tragedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...comedy). Each was based on situations and characters drawn from myth, and the tragedies ended in catastrophe for the heroes and heroines...participation in the drama. The plays of the Roman tragedian Seneca including Hercules, Medea, Phaedra, and Agamemnon were...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sensational aspects of Greek myth; they are noted primarily for their inflated rhetoric. Seneca became an important influence...with Terence, Plautus, and Seneca as the models. The Italians...Italy. Estienne Jodelle s Senecan tragedy Cleopatre captive...

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