DILOGGUN TALES OF THE NATURAL WORLD: HOW THE MOON FOOLED THE SUN AND OTHER SANTERIA STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 06568012B51971
English Summary/英文概要： Sacred myths from Santería centered on nature and the natural world
• Includes more than 40 myths, stories, and histories from the Lucumí tradition
• Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories
• Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, had deep philosophies and metaphysics involving nature and the natural world
Since ancient times the Yoruba of West Africa created sacred stories-patakís-to make sense of the world around them. Upon arrival in the New World, the Yoruba religion began to incorporate elements from Catholic and Native traditions, evolving into Santería, and new patakís were born, adding to the many chapters already found in the odu of the diloggun--the sacred oral teachings and divination system of the Yoruba, or Lucumí, faith. Comparable to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome and rich with jewels of wisdom like the I Ching, these Santería stories are as vast as the Hindu Vedas and as culturally significant as the parables in the Torah, Talmud, and Christian Bible.
Diloggun Tales of the Natural World presents more than 40 patakís that shed light upon the worldview of Santería. Each story in this collection, reassembled from the oral tradition of the African diaspora, is centered on a spiritual principle in nature: the waxing and waning of the moon, solar and lunar eclipses, the phenomenon of shooting stars, the separation of sky and earth, and the origins of the animals and birds who play key roles in Santería symbology. Revealing the metaphysics, theology, and philosophy of the Yoruba people, this volume shows these stories to be as powerful and relevant today as they were to the ancient Yoruba who once safeguarded them.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 以自然和自然世界为中心，来自萨泰里阿( Santería ) 的神话
·包括来自鲁库米 (Lucumí) 传统的40多个神话、故事和历史书
·将从离散的非洲人中口头零散的故事整合成连续的故事
·表明非洲人民，特别是约鲁巴(Yoruba)人民，有着对自然和自然世界深刻的哲学和形而上学思想 自古以来，非州西部的约鲁巴人民创造了神话故事—帕塔基斯(patakís)，试图理解周围世界的意义。在抵达新大陆时，约鲁巴人的宗教开始纳入天主教和本土传统的元素，形成了萨泰里阿，新的帕塔基斯诞生了，增加了在玛瑙贝壳神话中早已发现的许多章节—神圣的口头教义和约鲁巴人的占卜系统，或者鲁库米，他们的信仰。如同古希腊和罗马的神话还有像富含很多智慧的《易经》相比，这些萨泰里阿故事如印度教吠陀那样广大，如《托拉》(Torah)、《塔木德》(Talmud) 和基督教的圣经那样具有重要的文化意义。
《自然世界的玛瑙贝壳神话》展现了40多个帕塔基斯，它们启迪了萨泰里阿的世界观。这本集子里的每个故事是从非洲的零散口头传统重新整理过而写出，以自然灵性为原则：月亮的阴晴圆缺，日食和月食，流星坠落的现象，天空和大地的分离，在萨泰里阿的扮演重要象征角色的动物和鸟类的起源。揭示了约鲁巴人的形而上学、神学和哲学，这本书里那些古老约鲁巴人曾经维护着的故事，从古到今还是一样强而有力。(LNL & CK)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 《非洲古巴预言的秘密》(The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination)的作者 欧查尼.乐乐 (ócha’ni Lele)自1989年起潜心于欧瑞沙(Orisha)崇拜的地下文化研究。到1995年他接受了萨泰里阿和刚果帕洛阿马永贝(Congo faith Palo Mayombe) 信仰的倡议，在2000年他成为欧查(Ocha)并被加冕为萨泰里阿牧师。他现居美国佛罗里达州。 Author of The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Divination, ócha’ni Lele has been immersed in the underground culture of Orisha worship since 1989. By 1995 he had received several initiations in both Santeria and the Congo faith Palo Mayombe and in 2000 he made Ocha and was crowned a Santeria priest. He lives in Florida.
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