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The Spirals of Kemush: Origin of the Maklaks with Companion Guide
Paperback
Series: Native Myths of the American West
Publisher: Basalt Sea Press
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A complete mythic cycle and its companion guide.
The Spirals of Kemush gathers all twelve Kemush myths alongside a full scholarly companion guide exploring their cosmology, symbolism, and world-shaping forces. Blending oral-tradition logic, ecological storytelling, and comparative mythology, this volume presents a modern mythos rooted in the landscapes and narrative inheritance of the American West.
Readers will discover the spirals of Creation, Illusion, Change, Death, Hunger, Kinship, Greed, Pride, Brothers, Cold, Purpose, and Memory - each revealing a law of the world and the cost of becoming. The companion guide offers deep analysis for writers, mythographers, teachers, and readers who want to explore how myth functions across cultures.
Beautifully constructed and mythic in scope, The Spirals of Kemush stands as the complete edition of the Kemush Cycle: a cosmology of consequence, memory, and transformation.
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