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Being in Being : The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller (Skaay of the Qquuna

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All of Robert Bringhurst's translations of Haida myth are essential reading. None is more strange, beautiful, majestic, nasty, and comprehensive than this third volume, which contains brilliant translations of two vast epics by Skaay, the most impressive of the mythtellers whose Haida was transcribed as well as translated by an anthropologist at the turn of the last century. Skaay was a philosopher as well as a poet--the two jobs originate together, after all--and few other books give such insight into the worlds that people made on this continent before Europeans came and imposed their own. Read and reread, and don't interpret. These are words with power.