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Film maker, John Houston, is producing a film about the legends of Kiviuk (correctly spelled Kiviuq), a story that he says is on a par with Homers Odyssey.
These legends, preserved in the oral tradition, have been passed down through the hundreds of generations and somehow retained its integrity. Different villages kept seperate parts alive, but when Houston interviewed 50 elders last September, the entire story came out.
One elder, Samson Quinangnaq, from Baker Lake, talked for 7 hours relating his story. He said to Houston; "It's the bible of the Inuit. Kiviuq was a prophet and these stories are his parables."
The movie is scheduled for completion by next fall and will be broadcast initially on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).
The reason why I'm including this in the Seven Fires thread is to show that, contrary to the standard thinking, the aboriginal peoples of North America did have prophets and creation myths which predate the coming of the missionaries. The elders were afraid to tell this story in fear of these missionaries, who told them that Inuit traditions were devil worship.
The same suppression has influenced much of the oral traditions throughout the Americas. However, regardless of such a determined effort by those who would see all of that destroyed and forgotten, it is apparent that 500 years was not enough. The destruction of the library in Alexandria pales in comparison to what has happened in the Americas, when you consider the human suffering which went along with the subjegation to European theology. And yet, it survives to this day in the stories of Kiviuq and the Seven Fires Prophecy.
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[edit on 10-12-2005 by masqua]
From Thread: Seven Fires
Posted by masqua, on December 10, 2005 at 09:49 GMTFilm maker, John Houston, is producing a film about the legends of Kiviuk (correctly spelled Kiviuq), a story that he says is on a par with Homers Odyssey.
These legends, preserved in the oral tradition, have been passed down through the hundreds of generations and somehow retained its integrity. Different villages kept seperate parts alive, but when Houston interviewed 50 elders last September, the entire story came out.
One elder, Samson Quinangnaq, from Baker Lake, talked for 7 hours relating his story. He said to Houston; "It's the bible of the Inuit. Kiviuq was a prophet and these stories are his parables."
The movie is scheduled for completion by next fall and will be broadcast initially on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).
The reason why I'm including this in the Seven Fires thread is to show that, contrary to the standard thinking, the aboriginal peoples of North America did have prophets and creation myths which predate the coming of the missionaries. The elders were afraid to tell this story in fear of these missionaries, who told them that Inuit traditions were devil worship.
The same suppression has influenced much of the oral traditions throughout the Americas. However, regardless of such a determined effort by those who would see all of that destroyed and forgotten, it is apparent that 500 years was not enough. The destruction of the library in Alexandria pales in comparison to what has happened in the Americas, when you consider the human suffering which went along with the subjegation to European theology. And yet, it survives to this day in the stories of Kiviuq and the Seven Fires Prophecy.
edited for grammar
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[edit on 10-12-2005 by masqua]
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