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providing healing through the medium of the traditional sandpaintings of medicine men (the Hataalii). The Navajo word for sandpainting, likaah, means the place where the gods e and go. Navajo Sand Painting (1012) House Made of Dawn (Anatomy 1112) House Made of Dawn (1968) (Anatomy 1212) ? Part I: The Longhair ? Part II: The Priest of the Sun ? Part III: The Night Chanter a narrative of healing (Abel) ? Part IV: The Dawn Runner ? Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson (1981) Fantasy + Mythology = Fanthology Rosemary Jackson writes in Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion that “the fantastic derives from the Latin, phantasticus, which is from the Greek, meaning to make visible or manifest” (13). This notion of visibility or manifestation is important in our understanding of the literary fantastic: It is a literature to make visible of something that is unreal, uncertain, or unreasonable. It’s a style of writing widely circulated among writers such as Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Gogol, among others. Temporally, it crosses the times from the Christian, the medieval, the Renaissance to the modern. Mikhail Bakhtin notes that literary fantasy is closely related to the menippea, a satiric genre that was found in Christian and Byzantine writings. (15) Fantasy + Mythology It is also inseparable from the notion of carnival, a temporary ritual/event suspended from everyday routines, in which a munal celebration of misrule and disorder bees the norm (16). According to Bakhtin, fantasy is “hostile” to “static, discrete units” and resistant to fix