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Blue Dragon, White Wolf: A Comparison Of Korean And Navaho Traditional Geographies, Thomas N. Grove

Thomas N Grove

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Yellow Dragon And Yellow Corn Girl: Some Colors In Korean And Navaho Mythology, Thomas Grove

Thomas N Grove

Some Korean and Navaho myths indicate the significance of the color yellow in building a strong foundation for society. For a new order such as a kingdom, a monastery and religion, even a new way of life, a yellow dragon may move to the center, but also—to spur growth of order in 12th c. and Kwanggaet’o myths—the dragon may meet his blue counterpart. Interaction between the two colors intensifies as a yellow and a blue dragon entwine in the shamanist myth of the Three Chesok Gods. Sometimes other entities bring the two colors into contact. In the very First World …

An Analysis Of The Shamanistic Healing Practices Of The Navajo American Indians Through Mircea Eliade’S Theories Of Time, Space And Ritual, John W. Wick

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Learning To Construct Verbs In Navajo And Quechua, Ellen H. Courtney, Muriel Saville-Troike

Ellen H Courtney

Navajo and Quechua, both languages with a highly complex morphology, provide intriguing insights into the acquisition of inflectional systems. The development of the verb in the two languages is especially interesting, since the morphology encodes diverse grammatical notions, with the complex verb often constituting the entire sentence. While the verb complex in Navajo is stem-final, with prefixes appended to the stem in a rigid sequence, Quechua verbs are assembled entirely through suffixation, with some variation in affix ordering.

We explore issues relevant to the acquisition of verb morphology by children learning Navajo and Quechua as their first language. Our study …