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Chapter 18 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-18T16:00
-In this episode: Part 4 of an essay by Jabez L. Van Cleef exploring passages in the world's religions that can form a spiritual basis for sustainable living.
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Chapter 17 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-17T16:00
-In this episode: Part 3 of an essay by Jabez L. Van Cleef exploring passages in the world's religions that can form a spiritual basis for sustainable living.
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Chapter 16 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-16T16:00
-In this episode: Part 2 of an essay by Jabez L. Van Cleef exploring passages in the world's religions that can form a spiritual basis for sustainable living.
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Chapter 15 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-15T16:00
-In this episode: Part 1 of an essay by Jabez L. Van Cleef exploring passages in the world's religions that can form a spiritual basis for sustainable living.
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Chapter 14 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-14T16:00
-In this episode: The death of the daughter of the son of the Sun.
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Chapter 13 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-13T16:00
-In this episode: Continuation and conclusion of the rivalry between the two ancient drumming and singing wizards, Vainamoinen and Youkahainen; and the story of how Ilmarinen, smith of the Gods,...
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Chapter 12 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-12T16:00
-In this episode: Continuation of the rivalry between the two ancient drumming and singing wizards, Vainamoinen and Youkahainen; also called the Kalavala, the Finnish national epic.
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Chapter 11 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-11T16:00
-In this episode: Continuation of the rivalry between the two ancient drumming and singing wizards, Vainamoinen and Youkahainen; also called the Kalavala, the Finnish national epic.
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Chapter 10 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-10T16:00
-In this episode: The rivalry between the two ancient drumming and singing wizards, Vainamoinen and Youkahainen, who use words and songs as weapons to bewitch and defeat each other; also called ...
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Chapter 9 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-09T16:00
-In this episode: The rivalry between the two ancient drumming and singing wizards, Karkias and Torajas, symbolizing the characteristic values of age and youth; also called the Kalavala, the Fin...
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Chapter 8 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-08T16:00
-In this episode: Two scary old wives tales about how idle children are kidnapped or possessed by the spirits lurking in the landscape about them.
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Chapter 7 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-07T16:00
-In this episode: The story of how two scrawny children survived being kidnapped by a giant, because they refused to eat the delicacies offered them by his wife. The story of how mosquitoes and ...
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Chapter 6 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-06T16:00
-In this episode: The story of Kari Woodencoat, which blends features of Cinderella with the perky insouciance of Pippi Longstocking. The desirable outcome is less attributable to magic than to ...
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Chapter 5 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-05T16:00
-In this episode: The Fox, the Bear and the Mountain Sami meet in a series of instructive transactions. We learn to tread the fine line between heedless trust and opportunity.
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Chapter 4 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-04T16:00
-In this episode: How the real people of many tribes have created ceremonies for hunting, nurturing, killing, and feasting; which have built and strengthened the relationship between us and the ...
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Chapter 3 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-03T16:00
-In this episode: How the real people, from a combined sense of respect, bargaining, and expiation, have come to worship the bears; and how the bears have entered into partnership with us by car...
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Chapter 2 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-02T16:00
-In this episode: The brothers of the Giant's Daughter return from sea and are enraged to find her gone. After a stormy pursuit, they meet with a bad end in a barren place. She gives birth to th...
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Chapter 1 - God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems from 2007-05-01T16:00
-In this episode: The Son of the Sun comes into the Land of Giants and woos the Blind Giant's Beautiful Daughter. She helps him trick her father in a hand-wrestling match so that he can merit he...
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