Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The story is alternatively known as Ame no Wakahiko sōshi or Ame no Wakahiko monogatari (The Tale of Ame no Wakahiko), and serves as another etiological tale for the Tanabata festival. [13] According to professor Masako Sato, the calligraphy of the text indicates that its author is Emperor Gohanazono , [ 14 ] while French curator Jeannine ...
A pourquoi story [a] (French pronunciation: ⓘ; "pourquoi" meaning "why" in French) is a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is, for example why snakes have no legs or why tigers have striped coats.
The tale is also said to be known in Germany, Finland and among the "Cheremis" (Mari people). [28] Similarly, according to Russian folklorist Lev Barag , despite Stith Thompson's opinion that the tale type existed in Lithuania, it was also reported among East Slavs (in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus), in Poland, Bulgaria, and in Latvia and Estonia.
In a tale collected in 1966, in Los Angeles, with the title El pájaro que habla, three kings take shelter during a storm in the house where three princesses live. The princesses see the kings and profess their wishes: the first will sew clothes for the king that can fit in a nutshell; the second a cape that can fit in a pine nut; and the third ...
Another etiological tale, from a Slavic source, is The Seven Stars: a princess is kidnapped by a dragon, so the high chamberlain seeks a "Dragon-mother" and her sons, who each possess extraordinary abilities, to rescue her. At the end of the tale, the rescuers and the chamberlain enter a dispute on who should have the princess, but the "Dragon ...
Review: His Three Daughters Is a Lived-In Tale of Sisterhood, Grief, and Grace. Stephanie Zacharek. September 6, 2024 at 2:53 PM.
Cook review: ‘Anora’ is superb tale of characters living on the edge. WHBF Davenport. Linda Cook. November 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM.
A founding myth or etiological myth (Greek aition) explains either: the origins of a ritual or the founding of a city; the ethnogenesis of a group presented as a genealogy [9] with a founding father, and thus the origin of a nation (natio 'birth') the spiritual origins of a belief, philosophy, discipline, or idea – presented as a narrative