Maud Oakes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maud Oakes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maud |
| FAMILY NAME | Oakes |
| SIGNATURE | OAKES M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Where the Two Came to Their Father
This work takes its title from the richly symbolic creation legend of the Navaho people, which they incorporated into their blessing ceremony for tribe members headed to battle. Having observed this rite during World War II, when native Americans were for the first time drafted into the U.S. military, ethnologist Maud Oakes recorded the legend and made reproductions of the beautiful ceremonial paintings, given to her by the medicine man Jeff King…
The Wisdom of the Serpent
The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. This is a classic …
The Two Crosses of Todos Santos. Survivals of Mayan Ritual
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The Two Crosses of Todos Santos. Survivals of Mayan Ritual
The Wisdom of the Serpent
The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. This is a classic …
Where the Two Came to Their Father
This work takes its title from the richly symbolic creation legend of the Navaho people, which they incorporated into their blessing ceremony for tribe members headed to battle. Having observed this rite during World War II, when native Americans were for the first time drafted into the U.S. military, ethnologist Maud Oakes recorded the legend and made reproductions of the beautiful ceremonial paintings, given to her by the medicine man Jeff King…
History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Battle (1 work) · Blessing (1 work)