The Earth Stories Collection: How to Make Another World Possible with Myths, Legends and Traditional Stories

Cutanda, Grian A.

ISBN 10: 8409150999 / ISBN 13: 9788409150991

Published by Asociacion Avalon Project, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Earth Stories Collection: How to Make Another World Possible with Myths, Legends and Traditional Stories
• Publisher: Asociacion Avalon Project
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8409150999
• ISBN 13: 9788409150991
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Earth Stories Collection is a global project consisting of a repository of myths, legends, fables, and folktales from all cultures on the planet, stories capable of conveying a systemic worldview and illustrating the ethical principles and values of the Earth Charter.It is inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, an agricultural seed bank where seeds from all regions of the planet are preserved as a food guarantee for humanity in the face of the possibility of a global crisis or disaster.In this sense, The Earth Stories Collection would become a cultural seed bank, a base of global educational resources for the construction -or reconstruction- of a deeply sustainable global society, based on social and economic justice, and values of peace and democracy; that is, the values of the Earth Charter.The Earth Stories Collection is an initiative launched by The Avalon Project - Initiative for a Culture of Peace, in collaboration with the Secretariat of Earth Charter International and the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.In this book you will find the first installment of 45 myths, legends and folktales from around the world capable of transmitting a systemic and ecocentric worldview, as well as the principles and values of the Earth Charter. But you will also find, in the first half of the book, the theoretical and scientific justification that has given rise to the Collection.