Celebrating Nature; Rites and Ceremonies around the world PDF
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''""'^ «27W He rman I ^$k.2 Ce 1 eb ra t i ng nature tes : r i and ceremon es i ^ around the world. J He fman 1 39^.2 Celebrating nature: rites and ce remon es i around the wo ride 107347 /^ Santa Clara Valley Library System Mountain View Public Library Santa Clara County Free Library (Calaveras Aiunn Rock M.l.l,pitaS jCivicCenter C^ampbell M..organ ,H,i(.l,Sl,unnyhills Cupert,i.no Saratoga Gilroy \^il%^ Los Altos Stanford-Escondido — Central Research Library Headquarters For Bookmobile Service, request schedule Qekbrating V^ture V^ture Qekbrating Rites and Ceremonies Around IVorld the ELIZABETH HELFMAN by S. drawings by Carolyn Gather THE SEABURY PRESS NEW YORK • ~^'-*"^ Santa jo3€, Calttornh Text copyriglit © 1969 by Elizabeth S. Helfman Illustrations copyriglit © 1969 by The Seabury Press LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 73-79943 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form f^ or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, *'**'" ^**'***Tecbrding, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Design by Carol Basen Printed in the United States of .America ^cknowledgments I wish to thank the following publishers and authors for permission to use copyrighted material from the titles listed: Ernest Benn Limited for two verses from The Gods of Mexico by Lewis Spence, published by T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. Robert Brittain for part of an Egyptian prayer quoted in his book, Rivers, Alan, and Myths. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, for the first foiu" lines of "Round and Round the Maypole"' from The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by lona and Peter Opie. Thomas Y. Crowell Company for six lines of verse from The Book of Holidays by "Walker McSpadden. J. Doubleday & Company for two lines of verse from Six Thousand Years ofBread by H. E. Jacob. Copyright 1944 by H. E. Jacob. Epworth Press for a verse from West African Religion by Geoffrey Parrinder. Oxford University Press, Bombay, for the Saora ikon and prayer from The Religion of an Indian Tribe by Verrier Elwin. Oxford University Press, London, for a verse from Religion and Medi- cine of the Ga People by M. J. Field. Oxford University Press, New "\'ork, for three lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem, "Hurrahing in Har\est," from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Robert Bridges. Random House, Inc., for a quotation from Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. for four lines of verse from People of the Small Arrow by H. Driberg. J. The \Vorld Publishing Company for three lines of a song from The Ancient Su7i Kingdoms of the Americas by Victor Von Hagen. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/celebratingnaturOOhelf
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