1001 Nights
Entertainment, moral education, and historical documentation of cultural life.
Matsukaze “Wind in the Pines”
Noh Theater is one of the oldest forms of entertainment and a window into the relationship between religion and culture for Shinto in Japan.
Forbidden City, China
As the royal residences of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties from the 15th to 20th century
Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West
Much like the various compilations of tales in the West, it is also considered important as a compilation of cultural storytelling traditions across China.
Machu Picchu
Stone was even thought of as a living substance and in the Inca language (Quechua) the word for it translates as ‘to begin’.
Zoroaster’s Avesta (Zend-Avesta)
Holy book of Zoroastrianism
Zimbabwe Soapstone Birds
The birds surmount columns more than a yard tall and are themselves on average sixteen inches tall.
Tomb of Askia
Celebration of Gao becoming the capital of the empire and the adoption of Islam as the official religion.
The Rihla
…traveling – it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.
-Ibn Battuta
The Mandé Creation Myth
The Traditional Creation Story of the Mandé Peoples
