Earth Fire, A Hopi Legend of the Sunset Crater Eruption (Malotki & Gary)

Description

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A classic Hopi tale translated from the Hopi by Ekkehart Malotki and illustrated in color and black & white by Ken Gary. Retails new for .95.
The story is based on a classic Hopi story built around the eruption of Sunset Crater told by a storyteller from Shungopavi. It includes an introduction to the background of the tale and the Hopi oral traditions.
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About the Author
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Ekkehart Malotki is professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University where he taught German, Latin, and Hopi from 1977 until 2004. For more than twenty-five years, his work as an ethnolinguist focused on the preservation of Hopi language and culture. In addition to over a dozen bilingual works on Hopi semantics and oral literature, he has published three children's books based on authentic Hopi stories. For over ten years, he was the principal data contributor to the Hopi Dictionary/Hopikwa Lavaytutuveni. He also provided the Hopi titles, including that of Koyaanisqatsi, to Godfrey Reggio's movie trilogy on our destructive behavior toward this planet.
During the last fifteen years, his passion for rock art has taken him to the Sahara, to the Paleolithic caves in France, to Italy, Scandinavia and Mexico, and twice to Australia. In addition, he has devoted much of his time to the photography and interpretation of the rock art of the American Southwest.
Ken Gary
The illustrations are inspired by the stylized designs of prehistoric Anasazi and Mimbres potters.