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Thunder Rides A Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches And The Mythic Present
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I feel that what Claire Farrer means by living in the "mythic
present" is that although most Indian culture is perceived long to have
been different, it is in fact very live and active today. I will give
specific examples from her book, Thunder Rides a Black Horse, to support my
arguments of wh ....
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....le of the "mythic present" I will discuss is the
astronomical concept that the Apache Indians have and how they apply it.
This also includes their "Indian time". The Apache Indian Calendar is not
nearly as artificially constructed as our Western version. Only after
reading this book did I realize how artificial "our" calendar actually is.
Although this calendar was designed like most others to be the time between
which it takes for new moons to appear, it is actually not even close. It
tak.... |
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