(30th and last clip of 3rd C. Title: Becoming Feral, 03:26 min, 2:48:50 hrs)
Posted on the day we honor our fallen human being we chose to symbolize our still ongoing fight for equal rights, first for the blacks but now for all, MLK, Jr. Click into this vidclip to discover the dark feral side of the deaf (and human) experience the Deaf Child underwent. Posted in blessed memory of those deaf people who almost (maybe some did) went feral in their lives on earth.
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Deafhood questions: (for deaf person) Were you once abandoned in the “forest” or in anywhere just because you were deaf? Were you abandoned by your birth parents and gave you up for adoption just because they found out that you were deaf?
Deaf Studies commentaries: The feral element in deaf history is interesting to discuss and ponder upon. Probably Harlan Lane was the person who was the first to spotlight on feral children and deafness. He was instrumental in giving attention to feral children through his work on the wild child of Aveyron and of Burundi. See bibliography below for more references. It appears to me that most documented cases of feral children who lived in the wild were not deaf. Harlan did mention that to me in my interview with him years back. The problems posed by feral children such as no language, lack of communication within society, isolation from other people bear relevancy to the “problems” deaf people pose to the hearing society. Click here to go to unique website on feral children.
Bibliography
ITARD, J. (1932). The Wild Boy of Aveyron. G. Humphrey, ed. and trans. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hal
CURTISS, S. (1977). Genie: A Psycholinguistic Story of a Modern `Wild Child’. New York: Academic Press
Lane, Harlan. (1976). The Wild Boy of Aveyron. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Lane. H. (1979) The Wild Boy of Burundi: Psychological Catastrophes of Childhood. New York:Random House.
RYMER, R. (1993). Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence. New York: Harper Collins
http://www.feralchildren.com/
29th Clip Title: Into the Forest - 10th of 3rd chp - 05:34 min - 2:45:24 hrs
This clip is posted with good wishes of a new year to all. The DeafRead, AGBell, NAD conferences, the Olympics, and the presidential elections in the year of 2008. In this clip, find out what VisMa had to do with the Deaf Child on its’ back and what happened to the Temple of Aris.
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Myth Commentary: The destruction of the Temple of Aris symbolizes the destruction of the classic fallacy that language and speech are connected. VisMa bringing the Deaf Child into the forest symbolizes the retreat into the deep forest of our humanity in form of feralness. More on that in the next clip.
Deaf history commentary: The destruction of the temple of Aris symbolizes the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe. Girolamo Cardano, an Italian physician, wrote in the 16th century on the emerging idea that deafness and speechlessness are not connected. At least by 16th century, some scholars such as Cardano, Alberti, and Camerarius began to realize the deaf are “educable”. For more information, go to pages in the books listed below.
Bibliography:
Bender, Ruth. (1981) The Conquest of Deafness. Danville,IL:The Interstate Publishers. p. 30 and 31.
Davis and Silverman (1978) Hearing and Deafness. Fourth Edition. Holt, Winehart and Winston. page 423 and 424.
Eriksson, Per. (1998) The History of Deaf People. Orebro, Sweden: Daufr. page 23 and 24.
Lang, Harry. (1994) Silence of the Spheres: The Deaf Experience in the History of Science. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. page 1.
Scouten, Edward. (1984) Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People. Danville, IL: The Interstate Publishers. page 15.
Van Cleve and Crouch. (1989) A Place of Their Own. Washinton, DC: Gallaudet University Press. page 8 and 9.
CT: The First Flight Up - 28th clip - 08:34 min. - 2:39:50 h.
This vid-clip of the deaf child’s first flight up . . . is posted in gratitude to Paddy Ladd who soared with his ideas. In 1992, Paddy walked into my deaf history classroom at Fremont and out with a synopsis of the DC myth. In his inscription of my copy of his immeasurable “white” book, he wrote to me, “Thanks for inspiring me and keep exploring.” That inspired me even further to explore and work on this “odd” but profound “art-literature” project. The myth is so different that even its creator is grappling with it, trying to understand it while continuing its creation and expansion.
This clip is posted with homage and gratitude to our comrade-in-arms, Paddy, for being the first one of only two scholars from the “ivory tower” to cite the DC myth. The second person is coming up later (in 1996) in this list of gratitudes to people who crossed paths with me. Paddy Ladd is, to me, one of the “Deaf Adult” writing the collective “Leather Book” to smash to smithereen the prevaling oppression deaf people still are living in audistic (but lessening over the years) world. The only way to fight audism and make the world more “visi-centric” is to invite hearing people into our small (and sometimes closed) but growing world of signers by having them learn and embrace signing. Unbeknownst to themselves, the world will realize that becoming more “visi-aural” rather than too mono-aural is the answer in improving the human race.
Thank you, Paddy, for one of the carrots at the end of the string hanging from my stick guiding star for me to continue working on this myth.
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More coming here, pastel drawing of the deaf child gleefully riding VisMa. Pictures and drawings of the burning of Aris temple. And more are coming. Commentaries and questions, too. Father Time is needed to do them.
Everyone, have a safe and memorable celeb to end 2007 and welcome 2008.
HNY!
CT: Philosopher Aris - 27th c. - 8th of 3rd C. - 7:07 m. - 2:31:16 h.
Posted with the vision that there will appear a distinguished lyceum of the Best and the Brightest of deaf and hearing ASL artists to meet and raise notches up in the artistry of ASL literature with originals and translations.
Can the Deaf Child learn to read, write, and speak? Let’s see what the philosopher Aris has to say. Click away . . .
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Deaf history commentary. In the timeline of the myth, chapter three (Yairusaylim) is when we began to have preserved or handed down information about the deaf in the past. The first two chapters of the DC myth belong to the primaevel mist of time. The third chapter is less murky with some information from humanity’s sacred literatures. The Bible, Koran, Scriptures, and the Talmud - before Greece and Rome in the next clip, 03.09.
To viewers, You may notice the flunctuations of commentaries in the past clips/posts. In my filing cabinet, there s writing and art work from myself and high school/university students who used this myth to study deaf history and deaf studies. I would love to retype or scan them and insert them in each post with corresponding clips. With a full time job and a family to attend to, there is not enough time to work on my blogs. Bear with me and the myth. With Father time, eventually the myth will be all posted, done sometimes in mid to late 2008. I hope to post the last clip of chapter 11 (when it is the Present) during the protest at Milwaukee. We will see. Thank you for your time here. Happy New Year.
CT: Meeting the Deaf Baby/Child - 26th clip - 7th of 3rd c. of DC Myth (06:36 - 2:24:09)
Posted with many good wishes to the DeafRead team in hosting their conference in San Francisco. Vblog technology, live webcasting, and the emergence of a geninue public “sub-altern” discourse on “deaf-ness/dom/hood” give great opportunities and promises to deaf people everywhere.
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Clip Title: The Return Home - 25th clip - 6th of 3rd c. of DC Myth (06:41 - 2:17:33)
New Addition: Synopsis. Find out why the human owl, now VisMa, faced challenges and how it altered Archae Law into a new one.
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Synopsis: VisMa, now a “god”, came back home to the planet yet to find same old sets of laws governing the lives of deaf people below. But it also discovered new development among humanity: cities, laws for the common good, and worship of the words on the scroll. VisMa altered the old Archae Law into Hebra’s Law to see what happens.
24th clip, 5th of 3rd Chapter, 06:24 m - 02:2:12:52 h. Clip Title: Becoming a God.
Posted in honor of and good luck to a man, akin, nearing completion of an extraordinary project, akin to my feelings about this whole myth project. Inside a simple story finds so much “dD”; so much “dD” inside a life of deaf child.
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CT: The Great Scroll. This is the 23rd ASL video clip (03:19, 2:06:28) from Katz’s Deaf Child mythology on the “deafhood” (growth/process/history) of the deaf community (deaf experience/deaf history). Posted in thanks to one particular short story by Arthur C. Clarke and my Judaic heritage from our “people of the Book”.
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Questions: None as of Now
D - None as of now
DH- None as of now
DS- None as of now
Myth- (little or no myth questions until the posting of the last clip. They are to aid comprehension of the story)
Commentaries:
D (B) -
DH-
DS-
Myth - As you may notice, the title of the scroll comes from a short story, “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Clarke and the scroll was how books were first made, and the scrolls still are, today, inside the arks of Jewish people all over the world.
Bibliography/References/Inspiriations:
Jewish Works and Sacred Literature
Clarke, Arthur C. (1967) The Nine Billions Names of God. The Winds of the Sun, MacMillian New York: NY.
Clip Title: The Council of Gods. 22nd clip, 3rd of 3rd C., 04:25, 2:03:09 - . This clip is posted with my knees down on the ground and head bowed to _____________.
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Questions - None for now
Commentaries - None for now - This clip employs highly metaphorical allusions to something sacred beyond/within us all - Silence within “Natura” explains God best, everything else inadequate.
Bibliography: . . everything . . .
ClipTitle: Ascenscion. (21st clip, 2nd of 3rd C.) 05:20 - 1:58:44 - Where was the human owl transported to?
This clip is posted in gratitude to what I call - science fiction in words and films. A blend of Arthur C. Clarke, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. Yes, grateful to those artists and their movies and books: Close Encounter of the Third Kind, the 6 Star Wars films, the 2001: A Space Odyssey books/films, and the Rama Novels by Arthur C Clarke. George Lucas was as inspired/influenced as I was by Joesph Campbell, the incomparable comparative mythologist. It is wondruous how ideas from different venues (from religion to the movies) play in all of our lives. Ideas, along with people, mold how we be.
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Questions
Deafhood Questions: As a Deaf or/and Human, have you ever dreamt/thought of reaching into higher realm of any kind and meet/interact with superior beings of any kind - and beseech as a Deaf person? As a human seeking sustenance and salvation for our woes, sure, but as a Deaf person?
Commentaries
Deaf History Commentaries: There is no direct deaf history correspondence to this clip, probably indirectly if dug and ponder deeper.
Deaf Studies Commentaries: (Education and Rehabilitation) There is no direct deaf studies topics related to this clip, unless indirectly and metaphorically.
Bibliography/References/Inspirations
The 2001 and Rama novels of Arthur C. Clarke
Close Encounter of the Third Kind. dir. Steve Spielberg. Universal. 1977.
Star Wars: 1 - 6. dir. George Lucas. 1978 - 2005.
Smithsonian Institution. 1997. Star Wars: The Magic of Myth. Bantam Books. New York: NY.
CT: Into the StarLight. This is the 20th clip and the first of the 3rd chapter of the Deaf Child mythology. 1:53:24 - After encircling the planet, find out where next did the human owl go.
This clip is posted in gratitude to Ron and Hedy Udkovich Stern for “being there” at CSDFremont where the myth first, in 1992, became curricula for teaching deaf history to deaf students. I am grateful for the encouragment received at CSDFremont, especially from Hedy and Ron. Thanks.
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Deafhood Questions
Due to the concepts and imagery used in this clip, there will be no deafhood questions.
Commentaries
Deaf History Commentary: It s upward the human owl went. There is no historical document to verify possible trips away by human beings from the planet before rocketry into space in the last 50 years. Ascension into heaven appears in world’s sacred literatures.
Deaf Studies commentary: The Deaf Studies dimension of the third chapter, Yairusaylim, is education and rehabilitation. Until the human owl meets the Deaf Child in the last two-thirds of the third chapter, there will be no Deaf Studies commentaries.
Bibliography:
Sacred literatures from all over the world. See Eliade, Campbell, Jung and other writers.
The art for the title of the third chapter, Yairusaylim, of the Deaf Child mythology. Click on the image to enlarge.
The title mandala of the third chapter, Yairusaylim, of the Deaf Child mythology. Click on the image to enlarge.
