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Paradise Revisited: a Mythic Comparison of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Navajo Creation Story
by Paul G. Zolbrod, author of Dine Bahane’: the Navajo Creation Story
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No one knows what became of the ocean upon which Changing Woman, after her long journey and powerful rituals, set out for the west. Its place has been lost by human imagina-tion and forgotten by human memory. But as surely as the sun still rises and still sets, Asdzᾀᾀ Nádleehé the Changing Woman and Jóhonaa’éí the Sun still live in a home that floats far away upon a shimmering sea, dwelling in love and peace, balance and harmony.
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Against a backdrop of celestial cherubim guarding o’er Eden’s gates and a spectacular flaming sword barring their way back home, Adam and Eve move eastward from Eden’s long, twilight shadows into the next morning’s predawn, fading darkness. … They do so with responsibility, blessed by God’s forgiveness and possessed of the certain knowledge that in the future Eve’s seed will be quickened by the Holy Spirit to bring forth the Messiah who will heal the covenant broken by a jealous, vengeful Satan. Then, as in Milton’s own words it is said, Paradise shall be regained.
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Paul Zolbrod’s brilliant Paradise Revisited, as the Milton scholars keep reminding us, stands alone as a study: there has never before been a comparison made between a major alphabetic work—a world-famous epic like Paradise Lost—and an amazingly complex, deep, wise oral-literature creation story like Dine Bahane’, with its monsters, forces of nature, lovers, tricksters, sacred animals, elders, dancers, weavers, and heroes, all living under skies where the stars watch over them and bounded by sacred mountains where dwell the Holy People who trace their progress through the four worlds until today’s modern human species emerges.
532 pages. 147 images. With an Introduction by Dr. Dennis Slattery, a Publisher’s Preface that explain the history of the Garden of Eden story as a deliberate polemic against the Canaanite goddess Asherah, and a mythic analysis of both myths in the appendix. With a comprehensive bibliography, and a beautiful biography of Dr. Zolbrod. In the midst of all this, the brilliant comparison that only Paul Zolbrod, the only man to stand squarely between the greatest epics of English literature and the Navajo creation story could ever have written.
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You choose between two formats.
Two eBook versions: the text and images are the same in both books, but as we printed this book with two covers — one Navajo and one Old European — we decided we’d share both covers. [s]
I. ePUB version with Adobe DRM
for MAC, PC, Adobe Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and most other generic eBook readers. $62.50 (print book is $124.95). Perpetual license with no expiration. Some copying privileges.
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II. PDF version with Adobe DRM
for PC, MAC. Adobe Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and most other generic eBook readers. $62.50 (print book is $124.95). Perpetual license with no expiration. Some copying privileges.
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BIG NOTE:
At this time, we’re not offering an Amazon Kindle-readable AZW or MOBI files.
The reason it that their file security is COMPLETELY BLOWN. There are a dozen very effective apps for stripping all the Amazon-applied file security in a flash, leaving the author’s work 100% vulnerable for rip-off in seconds. In some cases, books have been stolen and were in press in the far east in a week. So, until that gets fixed, we can’t do it. We hope they resolve this problem, and we know they’re trying. As soon as Amazon lets us know it’s all good again, we’ll be back with a new version.
Now, here are some goodies for you … A gallery of images from the book … and an oldie-goldie photo of Paul in his 50s and a wee book write-up. And then, there’s Paul’s outrageous “no smoking” photo, a family favorite that captures his spiritual perfectly.
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Paul G. Zolbrod, Ph.D.
At the age of 90, English professor Paul Zolbrod, Ph.D.—Fulbright Scholar and Mellon Fellow, author of five books and two teleplays, occupant of an endowed chair at Allegheny College and a National Endowment of the Humanities grantee twice—had left little undone. This book represents this surpassing scholar’s last great dream: to provide a comparison of Paradise Lost, the premier epic creation poem written in the English language, with the Navajo creation story that had existed as oral literature for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
It was Dr. Zolbrod’s passionate wish to reveal the boundless spiritual wisdom and deep cultural beauty of Navajo oral literature, indeed all Native American literature, on the hope it will be recognized as equal in every way to the world’s most esteemed written works. With this book, his quest has met with the most spectacular success.
This work of 532 pages and 147 images represents the talents of more than 250 painters, weavers, dancers, photographers, sand painters, galleries, museums, scholars, mythologists, symbologists, editors, and university and Library of Congress research librarians.
And finally, just a wee wink. He was a rascal.
