The Bullroarer Atlas

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The Series

The essays gathered into seven series, each listed with its essays in reading order.

A series in three essays

The Edge of Death

  1. Initiates Used To Die
  2. The Bridegroom of Blood
  3. You Were the Sacrifice

A series in nine essays

Myths of the Great Deluge

  1. Myths That Remember Sahul
  2. Flood Myths of Sundaland
  3. Flood Myths of East Asia
  4. Flood Myths of South Asia
  5. Flood Myths of the Mediterranean Near East
  6. Doggerland: The Stories Around the Drowned Country
  7. Flood Myths of North America
  8. Flood Myths of South America
  9. Where the Flood Is Not Remembered

Read alongside: The Bullroarer and the Flood; Twelve Drowned Worlds

A series in twelve essays

Twelve Drowned Worlds

  1. Old Sahul
  2. Before the Persian Gulf
  3. The Gates of the Black Sea
  4. Old Sundaland
  5. The Lost East China Plain
  6. Beringia
  7. The Patagonian Shelf
  8. Doggerland
  9. The Great Adriatic–Po Plain
  10. Wider Florida and the Gulf Rim
  11. The Restless Caspian
  12. Aegean Before the Islands

A series in six essays

The Stolen Voice

  1. The Voice Was Hers
  2. The Woman Who Made Mimi’unemb
  3. The Palm and the Pleiades
  4. The Women Who Taught the God
  5. The House That Swallows Boys
  6. What the Women Kept

Read alongside: Mother Right

A series in ten essays

What's in a Name?

  1. The Wood That Speaks
  2. Ask for the Bullroarer
  3. The Old One and His Wives
  4. Orò Crosses the Water
  5. Names That Travel
  6. Mero-Mero
  7. Mantiki
  8. When the Aeroplane Came
  9. The Voice on the Wing
  10. The Wing and the Ghost

A series in eight essays

Is This a Bullroarer?

  1. The Jade Complex
  2. Stone Spatulas
  3. Grooved Jade Blades
  4. Jade Slats and Stone Strips
  5. Heads, Necks, and Jade Blades
  6. Tanged Jade Blades
  7. The Plate in the Writing Kit
  8. Nordic Ship Razors

A series in seven essays

The Seven Sisters and the First Mystery

  1. The Seven Sisters and the Voice in the Dark
  2. When the Sisters Call
  3. From Ooldea to Ilahita
  4. The Palm and the Pleiades
  5. The Daughters of Atlas and the Roaring God
  6. When the Stars Open the Lodge
  7. The First Mystery

Read alongside: The Bullroarer in the Coalsack