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Traditional Inuit folk tales are not for sissies.
This is one of the stories collected by Lawerence Millman in the remarkable anthology: A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Folk Tales, published by Interlink Books in 2004.

amazon.co.uk/dp/1566565251/…
This one has narwhals, and, literally, a happy ending.
Timeless wisdom.
This is a reminiscent of the story of Aladdin and his Magic Lantern, but with more of a "girl power" angle.
The moral of this Inuit tale is never ignore your wife's advice, even if - actually, *especially* if - you're both dead.
Taboos are there for a *reason*, folks.
"And there was evening and there was morning".... yes, but what *really* happened?
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Noh is the oldest continuous theatre tradition on earth. This scroll documents the Kanjin Noh performances of 1816 in Edo (Tokyo), and shows the size and complexity of the staging, and how the producers developed multiple revenue streams, just like at a modern rock concert. 1/7
Noh performances were originally held to raise money for worthy causes, such as construction or repair of temples and shrines but by the Edo period, the performances had turned into commercial ventures, bringing profits chiefly to the producers and performers. 2/7
In the Edo period, there were eight such large-scale Noh performances: 1607, 1624, 1656, 1687, 1750, 1816, 1831, and 1848. The centerpiece of the scroll is the woodcut below, a rare survival, which shows the layout of the grounds and the many buildings of the theatre complex. 3/7
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This is the Garland Sutra in 10 juan, block-printed in Beijing in 1419 - one of the earliest printed sutras from the Northern Tripitaka, initiated by the Emperor Chengzu in 1407 after the removal of the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing. The brocade bindings are original. 1/3
In an attempt to surpass the compilation of the Nanzang, or Southern Tripitaka, published in Nanjing in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, only the best artisans, and white cotton paper of the finest quality, were employed in the production of this Northern Tripitaka. 2/3
This set still contains the original covers and wrappers covered in multi-colored brocade in various designs. This type of brocade displays colorful woofs on plain background, so it is called weijin (the woof brocade). Such fine examples of weijin are extremely rare nowadays. 3/3
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Christopher Tolkien, the third son and editor of much of his father JRR Tolkien's posthumously published work, passed away early Thursday morning at the age of 95 at the hospital in Draguignan, in the Var region of south-east France.

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Tolkien once referred to his son as his "chief critic and collaborator", and named him his literary executor in his will. Tolkien organized the masses of his father's unpublished writings, some of them handwritten on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier.
In the years following, Tolkien worked on the manuscripts and was able to produce an edition of The Silmarillion for publication in 1977; his assistant for part of this work was Guy Gavriel Kay who became a noted fantasy author himself.
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