Tag: Hymns

Free Download Michael D. McNally, "Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion"
English | 2009 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 0873516419, 0195134648 | PDF | 1,8 mb
In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people.

Free Download The Orphic Hymns: Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Daniel Malamis
English | December 6, 2024 | ISBN: 9004714073 | True PDF | 684 pages | 3.5 MB
The first major study of the Orphic Hymns as a poetic text to appear in English, this book combines a new critical edition and translation of the hymns with an in-depth analysis of their poetic strategies and generic contexts.

Free Download Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns: A Study in Hymnody, Hero Cult, and Homeric Reception (Mnemosyne, Supplements) by Brian McPhee
English | December 6, 2024 | ISBN: 900471510X | True PDF | 456 pages | 3 MB
Apollonius represents a crucial link in the epic tradition spanning Homer and Vergil, but arrestingly, his epic Argonautica rather begins and ends in the style of a Homeric Hymn. This book contends that Apollonius thus frames his poem as an innovative synthesis of both branches of his Homeric inheritance: an "epic hymn" that simultaneously commemorates its protagonists’ glorious deeds and venerates them in their religious capacity as divinized cult heroes.

Free Download The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic by Tamra Lucid, Ronnie Pontiac
English | August 22, 2023 | ISBN: 1644117207 | 288 pages | PDF | 5.38 Mb
Recaptures the magical vitality of the original Orphic Hymns