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Coyote’s wife dies of an illness and he weeps for her. He is visited by the death spirit who offers to take him to the land of the dead if Coyote will follow his instructions. Coyote agrees. On their journey the spirit points out a herd of horses. Coyote cannot see the horses but he [...]
Sasa me gu keyna ndu aljam.
The mouth of a sparrow is too small for the bit of a horse.
Songhay proverb: source
Fool
Just as the shaman can be viewed as a certain type of magician-figure, the fool can in turn be viewed as a certain type of trickster-figure. The fool and the trickster are not always distinguished, of course. (So, for example, the entry for “Fool” in A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis simply reads “See Trickster.”)
In [...]
Lawler: So your family allowed for creative expression and reflection?
Barks: I grew up in an ecstatic family. Anybody at any
time could burst into song for any reason. My mother would
just dance around the house, singing. I recall those two minutes
at the end of the day when a golden light would fall across
the floor, especially in [...]
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