How do traditional narratives about spirit beings and culture heroes shape Aboriginal views of landscape?
Traditional narratives connect specific places with the journeys of spirit beings who traversed between the ‘Old World’, where humans and animals moved interchangeably between human and animal forms, and the ‘New World’, where they no longer move from one form to another. The tales relate how events in their travels, such as struggles with others and good deeds, shaped geographical forms and features. Narratives associated directly to a specific people or shared among several peoples record the exploits of these spirit beings. Such stories often focus on the journeys of culture heroes, like Glooscap, the transformer of the Eastern Woodlands, who is credited with creation of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia(Carpenter, 1985), or Yamoria, the law giver of the Dene in the Northwest Territories(Blondin, 1997). The stages of the journeys and exploits of Yamoria and his namesakes through the Mackenzie Basin can be related to specific features in that landscape.(Andrews, 1990) The narrative
Traditional narratives connect specific places with the journeys of spirit beings who traversed between the ‘Old World’, where humans and animals moved interchangeably between human and animal forms, and the ‘New World’, where they no longer move from one form to another. The tales relate how events in their travels, such as struggles with others and good deeds, shaped geographical forms and features. Narratives associated directly to a specific people or shared among several peoples record the exploits of these spirit beings. Such stories often focus on the journeys of culture heroes, like Glooscap, the transformer of the Eastern Woodlands, who is credited with creation of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia(Carpenter, 1985), or Yamoria, the law giver of the Dene in the Northwest Territories(Blondin, 1997). The stages of the journeys and exploits of Yamoria and his namesakes through the Mackenzie Basin can be related to specific features in that landscape.(Andrews, 1990) The narrative
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