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--- omnipoetics:a_paradise_of_poets [2025/01/30 01:45] – rachel
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+//The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 25-28) \\
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 ====== A Paradise of Poets ======
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 //Technicians of the Sacred// (XXV), “…A major point throughout this book is that these peoples (& they’re likely too diverse to be covered by a single name) are precisely “technicians” where it concerns them—specifically in their relation to the “sacred” as something they can actively create or capture…”
+//What is a metaphor? Does it bring us closer or separate us from a concept? In this case, the original language did not have a word for poetry so these images serve a different role than they would in English. They are not a substitution. What are they? To the original writers? To us? Can we touch the same source of meaning?//
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-From //Cantares Mexicanos//
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+Visit the other pages from week two in-class work:
+  - [[Kiche]]
+  - [[Origins of Human Language]]
+  - [[durkheim-on_ritual_and_theater|Durkheim]]
+  - [[Tzara]]
+  - [[Radin]]
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+  * Image of flowers from Pixabay.com
+  * Image of text from //Cantares Mexicanos//
+{{tag>Oral_Tradition Mexico Nahuatl Aztec Transcreation Poem Fifteenth_Century Sacred}}