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LEADER: 02581cam 2200421Ii 4500
001 ocn856053126
003 OCoLC
005 20210116224418.0
008 130814s2013 iduab b 000 0 eng d
040 $aBTCTA$beng$erda$cBTCTA$dYDXCP$dCUV$dOCLCF$dOCLCQ
020 $a9781483672687$q(hardcover)
020 $a1483672689$q(hardcover)
020 $a9781483672670$q(softcover)
020 $a1483672670$q(softcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)856053126
043 $af-ua---
050 4 $aGR355.2.S59$bG75 2013
100 1 $aGrivetti, Louis,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSong of Siwa :$bthe Marzuk-Iskander Festival : Siwa Oasis, Western Desert, Arab Republic of Egypt /$cauthor: Louis Grivetti ; Artist: Alison Smith.
264 1 $a[Bloomington, Ind.] :$bXlibris LLC,$c[2013]
300 $a241 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c241 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The Song of Siwa is a fictional epic, the transcribed oral tradition of a band of early Stone Age hunters led by Marzuk who fled southwestern Europe, crossed the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa, and ultimately reached safe haven at Siwa Oasis in the western desert of modern Egypt. The narrative, also known as the Marzuk-Iskander Epic, traces the cultural transformation of Marzuk's clan from prehistoric Iberia to historical contacts with the Te-Henu of North Africa, the Chemi of the Nile Valley, and culminates with the visit of Iskander [Alexander the Great] to Siwa oasis, an event still revered at the oasis today. The Song of Siwa, the epic of Marzuk's clan, has been chanted by a hereditary line of elders for more than two millennia The Marzuk-Islander festival held periodically at Siwa Oasis honors the clan's distant ancestors and celebrates the protective spirit of Alexander the Great. While The Song of Siwa is fiction elements of the epic are based upon historical events."--Page four of cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
650 0 $aFolklore$zEgypt$zSīwah Oasis.
650 0 $aLegends$zEgypt$zSīwah Oasis$vPoetry.
651 0 $aSīwah Oasis (Egypt)
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650 7 $aLegends.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00995592
651 7 $aEgypt$zSīwah Oasis.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01262596
655 7 $aPoetry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423828
700 1 $aSmith, Alison,$eartist.
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$nBK0013698038
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n11095291
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