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NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY

THE MYTH OF EDEN

Everything here, in spite of its title, expresses a native American perception of Eurocentric philosophy, sometimes a pointed response to it, but always an honest assessment of its shortcomings.

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Everything on the page was written by Frederick Martin, who is solely responsible for its content and point-of-view. All rights to reproduce this material are reserved. Copyright © Frederick Martin

1998-2001.

Pre-Columbian Online Study Course

MAYA ASTRONOMY: BASIC TO ADVANCED

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INDEX of GENERAL TOPICS: THE MYTH of EDEN

Maya Astronomy
Politics
Natural Law
Social Law
Post-Colonialism
Classic Soul
Utopia/ Eden
Existentialism
Christian Hierarchy
Marxism
Spirit
Deconstruction
Bakhtin
Christian Soul
Christian Identity
Cannibalism

General Introduction

These first three essays provide a considerable insight into the origin of my interest as a native American in the subject of the Myth of Eden. Chaucer's pre-Columbian point-of-view in the Canterbury Tales, specifically in the Merchant's Tale, makes him innocent of the knowledge, but not the inevitability, of the Evil that overtook the Americas in its usual guise as the Sacred.

Chaucer: Classifying Sacred and Profane

The Myth of Eden, Bakhtinian Carnival, and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.

Gregory I and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (03/30/2001)

Chaucer, Parody, and the Myth of Eden. (08/24/2001)

Other Chaucer Essays

SPIRIT MIRROR

Islamic Jihad Meets Christian Crusade, 2001 AD

Everything below has been written since September 11, 2001 AD and reflects a native American response to the events of that day and to subsequent developments. Opinions expressed are the sole responsibility of the author, who does not pretend to speak for any other native or tribal person, living or dead.

WTC: September 11, 2001. (09/15/2001)

George W. Bush and the Ideology of Crusade. (09/20/2001)

From "Infinite Justice" to "Enduring Freedom" in the Murky Mindset of Presidential Pretenders. (10/03/2001)

Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript. (10/05/2001)

Kierkegaard: Time versus Eternity, A Columbus Day Reflection. (10/08/2001)

Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments and the History of Coming into Existence. (10/10/2001)

The Myth of the Great Spirit. (09/28/2001)

With God Going On Before. (10/11/2001)

Knowledge and Power. (11/05/2001)

Ashcroft as AntiChrist Revisited. (11/30/2001)

Enron: Chaney, Ashcroft, O'Neill, Evans--Nothing Wrong with This Picture. (01/11/2002)

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Maya Calendrical Astronomy

Sample material from online lecture series:

The World Tree and Maya Calendrical Astronomy.04/10/2000

Katun Quarters in the 12 Lamat Eclipse Correlation. 01/08/2001

Maya Calendrical Harmonics. (03/07/2001)

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Christian Hierarchy

Binary Opposition, Hierarchy, and God's Power in Early Christian Writing. (03/21/2001)

Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchy. (01/15/2001)

Eucherius of Lyons: De Contemptu Mundi. (01/20/2001)

St. Bonaventure: The Journey of the Mind into God. (02/06/2001)

Binary Opposition and Original Sin: Genesis: 2:16-17. (03/09/2001)

Augustine: De Moribus Manichaeorum. (03/23/2001)

Tertullian: On the Body and Soul Dialectic. (03/26/2001)

Gregory I and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (03/30/2001)

While the following essays are not ancient discourse, nor by church Fathers, they nevertheless depend on that ideology for their meaning.

Ruth Nanda Anshen: The Reality of the Devil: Evil in Man. (03/03/2001)

Ruth Nanda Anshen: The Fallacy of Opposition in Western Ideology. (03/05/2001)

The Necessity of Freedom and the Origin of Genocide in Western Civilization. (03/18/2001)

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Contemporary Politics

From "Infinite Justice" to "Enduring Freedom" in the Murky Mindset of Presidential Pretenders. (10/03/2001)

George W. Bush and the Ideology of Crusade. (09/20/2001)

WTC: September 11, 2001. (09/15/2001)

John Ashcroft as Attorney General. (12/26/2000)

Umberto Eco: The Island of the Day Before. (01/02/2001)

George W. Bush, Changeless Ideology, and Eurocentric Consciousness (02/05/2001)

Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince: On Colonization. (04/10/2001)

Revilo P. Oliver: Christianity: Religion of the West. (03/28/2001)

A Wealth of Nations and the Fallacy of Capitalism. (05/10/2001)

Adorno: Negative Dialectics: Concept Versus Object in Materialistic Thought. (05/23/2001)

Adorno, Kant, Tertullian: Against Hermogenes. (06/26/2001)

Kant and Dionysius: From The Celestial Hierarchy to The Critique of Practical Reason in the Changeless Ideology of Western Philosophical Traditions. (07/28/2001)

Kant on Space and Time: Transcendental Aesthetics in the Light of Maya Astronomy. (07/25/2001)

Adorno: Natural Law and the Universality of Domination. (08/04/2001)

Speech and Writing in Plato's Phaedrus. (08/13/2001)

Kant's Moral Values in the Light of Maya Harmonics. (08/16/2001)

Gramsci on the Inside/Outside of Social Relationships. (08/24/2001)

Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation. (10/26/2001)

Eudora Welty: "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden." (11/16/2001)

Ashcroft as AntiChrist Revisited. (11/30/2001)

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Marxism

Marx: Man and Nature. (2/7/99)

Frederic Jameson: The Political Unconscious. (1/28/99)

Raymond Williams: Social Science. (2/8/99)

Frederick Engels: On the Iroquois. (4/12/99)

Marx: On Tribal Religion. (4/18/99)

Adorno and Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment. (5/3/99)

Frederick Engels and Eurocentric Domination of the Other. (5/27/99)

Adorno, Hierarchy, and the Necessity of Dominion. (7/22/99)

Georg Lukacs: On Social Evolution. (9/18/99)

Theodor Adorno: Natural Law and the Universality of Domination. (08/04/2001)

Gramsci on the Inside/Outside of Social Relationships. (08/24/2001)

Ernst Bloch: The Spirit of Utopia. (02/15/2001)

Ernst Bloch: The Spirit of Utopia: Fetishes, Part 1. (02/17/2001)

Ernst Bloch: The Spirit of Utopia: Fetishes, Part 2. (02/20/2001)

Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia, and Native American Perceptions of Reality. (02/25/2001)

Ernst Bloch, the Transmigration of Souls, and Life after the Apocalypse: An Ash Wednesday Meditation. (02/28/2001)

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Nature and Natural Law

Introduction: Lawn Care, Snap.Com, and Eurocentric Paradigms of Genocide. (5/20/99)

Big Bang. (12/11/98)

Relativity. (12/18/98)

Rousseau and Nature. (1/22/99)

Hegel's Nature/Culture Dialectic. (3/3/99)

Rousseau's Prescription for Human Origins. (3/23/99)

Titian: Logos and Creativity. (3/29/99)

Nietzsche: On the Persecution of the Other. (4/15/99)

Kant: Metaphysical Barbarism. (4/21/99)

David Duke (Ex-Imperial Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan): Lessons in Genocide. (5/20/99)

Dark Energy and the Death of the Universe. (01/04/2002)

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Reflections on Spirit

The Myth of the Great Spirit. (09/28/2001)

Trial By Error. (12/9/98)

If You Can't Name Your Tribe, You Ain't No Indian. (09/08/2001)

The River Is A Bone. (12/10/98)

Hobbes, Montaigne, and Valor in War. (12/15/98)

Spirit In A Stone. (12/17/98)

Spirit Wheel. (2/18/99)

Sierra Blanca (1953). (1/30/99)

Spirit Lake. (3/25/99)

Spirit of the Earth. (2/22/99)

Spirit-Death. (6/8/99)

Snake, Rattle, and Roll. (6/9/99)

Good Medicine/Bad Medicine. (6/10/99)

Crow Can't See No Future in Some Bison Bones. (6/28/99)

Buffalo Woman Ain't No Mother in Some Soldier's Eye. (6/11/99)

When Talon Is the Only Knife You Know. (10/8/99)

Prediction Versus Prophecy in Native American Culture. (6/21/99)

Sun-Dancing Birds Who Black the Bison-Sky. (9/20/99)

Bird Singing Spirit-Death All Over Again. (8/26/99)

Bird-Singing Sees the Jaguar Sky. (11/16/99-09/04/2001)

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Society and Social Law

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: "Mere Nature." (12/11/98)

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: Commonwealth. (12/14/98)

Nietzsche: Good/Evil. (1/31/99)

Descartes and the NRA. (5/17/99)

Reaching the Same Conclusion From Origen to Descartes. (6/3/99)

Descartes, Human Language, and Social Hierarchy. (6/4/99)

Fear and Loathing on the Sacred Mountain. (6/14/99)

Leibnitz: Monadology. (8/31/99)

Leibnitz: An Enlightened View of Original Sin. (9/2/99)

Augustine, Leibnitz and the City of God. (9/3/99)

Spinoza: Ethics. (9/9/99)

Sigmund Freud: Totem and Taboo. (10/23/2001)

Biblical Texts

King James Version: The Myth of Eden

World English Bible (WEB): The Myth of Eden

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Deconstruction

Introduction: Dada's Hugo Ball. (1/4/99)

Derrida: Inside/Outside. (12/25/98)

Body/Soul. (1/4/99)

Number. (1/1/99)

(Un)Covering Identity. (1/14/99)

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Post-Colonialism

Authenticating Identity. (12/30/98)

Tertullian: The Christian Colonization of the Other. (2/21/99)

Justin Martyr and St. Ignatius: Constituting Cannibalism. (3/10/99)

On The Creation of the Other. (3/18/99)

Namibia: European Genocide against the Herero. (3/21/99)

Cabeza de Vaca: Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542). (5/26/99)

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Talking Through Identity. (1/4/99)

Mikhail Bakhtin: Monologic Command/Dialogic Rejoinder. (4/2/99)

Bakhtin on Myth and Language. (3/30/99)

Bakhtin and Vertical Time. (4/6/99)

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Classic Soul

Aristotle: On The Soul. (1/6/99)

Aristotle and the "Essential Whatness" of the Body. (1/11/99)

Plato: Timaeus. (1/13/99)

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Christian Soul

Augustine: On Christian Doctrine. (1/13/99)

Tertullian: Treatise on the Soul. (1/21/99)

Tertullian: Reason and Soul. (2/21/99)

Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God. (5/5/99)

Augustine: Against Manichaeanism. (5/21/99)

Origen: Superior Qualities of the Soul. (5/28/99)

Origen: A Mysterious Virtue. (5/31/99)

Origen: A Man of Great Powers. (6/2/99)

Catherine of Siena: Formulating Identity by Talking through God. (6/5/99)

John Milton: Giving Voice to Snakes and Angels Shapes the (Wo)man in Your Skin. (6/23/99)

Novatian: Freedom, God's Eternity, and (Wo)man's Death. (6/28/99)

Novatian and the Rule of Truth. (6/25/99)

Novatian: An Immortality of Guilt. (7/2/99)

Pope Gregory I: Creationism, Hierarchy, and Early Christian Views of Slavery. (8/31/99)

Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchy. (500 A. D.) (01/15/2001)

Eucherius of Lyons: De Contemptu Mundi. (500 A. D.) (01/21/2001)

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Utopia/ Eden

Jameson: Theoretical Utopianism (As If There Were Another Kind). (2/3/99)

Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis. (2/14/99)

Sir George Peckham: The Advantages of Colonization (1582). (2/24/99)

St. Cyprian: On Mortality. (3/8/99)

Irenaeus: Cannibalism as Sacred and Profane Discourse. (3/12/99)

Thomas More: A Utopian Colonization of the Other. (4/1/99)

Thomas More: Communal Property. (4/1/99)

Cynthia Tucker: Even "Global Peace" Won't Save You From Some Trekkie Heaven. (6/14/99)

Umberto Eco: The Island of the Day Before. (01/02/2001)

Martin Buber: Paths in Utopia. (10/23/2001

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Christian Identity

An Ultimate Ideology. 8/16/99

Revilo P. Oliver: On Western Christianity (July 1989) or Pequot Revisited. 8/18/99

Revilo P. Oliver: Christianity: Religion of the West. 8/19/99

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Existentialism

Kierkegaard: The Concept of Dread. (9/10/99)

Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript. (10/05/2001)

Kierkegaard: Time versus Eternity, A Columbus Day Reflection. (10/08/2001)

Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments and the History of Coming into Existence. (10/10/2001)

Gabriel Marcel: Man Against Mass Society. (10/13/2001)

Martin Buber: I and Thou. (10/16/2001)

Martin Buber on Spirit. (10/18/2001)

Martin Heidegger: A Dangerous Fragment. (10/19/2001)

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Cannibalism

Justin Martyr and St. Ignatius: Constituting Cannibalism. (3/10/99)

Irenaeus: Cannibalism as Sacred and Profane Discourse. (3/12/99)

Cabeza de Vaca: Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542). (5/26/99)

Sir George Peckham: The Advantages of Colonization (1582). (2/24/99)

Frederick Engels: On the Iroquois. (4/12/99)

Marx: On Tribal Religion. (4/18/99)

The Anasazi as Cannibals. (6/16/2000)

Good Friday. (4/2/99)

Columbine High School. (4/26/99)

Another Christian Fable: Montana Town Stunned by Cannibalism. (12/21/2000)

George W. Bush, Changeless Ideology, and Eurocentric Consciousness. (02/05/2001)

Genghis Khan: More Tombs to Plunder. (08/20/2001)

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