First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The information in this book is so incredibly detailed that you could practically hold your own Lodge meeting and conduct all of the ancient ceremonies! Whether you are doing research prior to being initiated as a 1st degree Mason, or you are just curious about this ancient brotherhood, everything you need to know is in this 223 page Book. * How was the Ark of the Covenant discovered? * What items were found inside of it? Who is buried facing the Ark underneath Solomon's Temple? page 99) * What is the true purpose of the great pyramids of Egypt? (page 145) * Where was the cross of Jesus...

The information in this book is so incredibly detailed that you could practically hold your own Lodge meeting and conduct all of the ancient ceremonies Whether you are doing research prior to being initiated as a 1st degree Mason, or you are just curious about this ancient brotherhood, everything you need to know is in this 223 page Book. * How was the Ark of the Covenant discovered? What items were found inside of it? Who is buried facing the Ark underneath Solomon's Temple? page 99) * What is the true purpose of the great pyramids of Egypt? (page 145) * Where was the cross of Jesus Christ...

Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know, of the philosophic system which is taught in the institution. All its mysteries and its dogmas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communication to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The...

The original Navajo Coyote Tales - beautifully colorized. For the first time since the stories were published in 1949, children and adults can read the tales of Coyote the Trickster again in Navajo and English. This edition has been newly typeset in Navajo and designed to closely resemble the original. It is not a facsimile reprint, as sold by other publishers. Coyote stories were told by Navajo elders when gathering around the fire place at night in winter. It was the traditional way to educate young listeners. Six of these delightful tales were originally collected in Navajo 75 years ago...

Son of Former Many Beads begins his narration by telling us that his parents had been rounded up by Kit Carson's troops, were driven to Fort Sumner during the Long Walk period and managed to escape from imprisonment to live with the Chiricahua Apaches. He was born among the Chiricahua two years later, and returned with his family to their homeland after the tribe had been released from internment at Fort Sumner. His father, Many Beads eventually moved back to the Ramah area with his family, where they once had lived. His narration spans the time before first contact with the white man, to the...

The selected articles were published in Navajo in a monthly newspaper: Adahooni igii. The newspaper was printed on a single folded sheet of newsprint and distributed from 1943 to 1957 throughout the Reservation and was a predecessor of the contemporary Navajo Times. Adahooni igii was published by the Navajo Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Window Rock, Arizona and contributed to the standardization of Navajo orthography. The only widely available texts intended for a Navajo audience up to that point had been religious publications and parts of Diyin God Bizaad - the Bible. The paper...

This dictionary is a handy practical tool for Navajo language learners and teachers at various levels. It is meant to be a companion volume to 'The Navajo Language' book by Robert W. Young and William Morgan. The book deals largely with extended word meanings used in colloquial Navajo and encompasses 480 pages. Originally published in 1951 and printed by Phoenix Indian School, this publication is still the best alternative to the scholarly work Young and Morgan compiled later: in 1980 the two books were combined into a reference grammar and dictionary for the academic library.

First published in 1958, this is a simple and concise Navajo-English only dictionary. It has over 9000 entries and contains many useful every day expressions. It was originally intended for the native Navajo speaker to learn English and for non-Navajos who want to acquire some knowledge of the Navajo language.