On Survivals of Ancient Astronomical Ideas Among the Peoples of the Northwest Coast
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Abstract
This article is based on the idea, clear enough to the intellect but seemingly difficult for most urban Canadians to grasp in the deeper parts of their beings, that Canada is an American country with a totally Indian and Eskimo past and a significant Indian and Eskimo present. The present plight of the United States is a warning of what happens to countries which choose to base themselves on technological and constitutional notions with no reference to historical realities. Thus our educational system should ensure that the ancient cultures of our country become part of our own background, in spite of those, both Indian and white, who would like the present divisions to remain. If this does occur, the country will remain a rich but weak strip of synthetic Anglo-American and Franco-American culture, with a vast decaying hinterland of aboriginal traditional ways. Since what we call mythology contained, directly or indirectly, most of the intellectual life of Indian and Eskimo peoples, we must therefore try to understand it, even though our minds, conditioned by Greek and Western logic, find this difficult. These cultures made only slight distinctions among those forms of understanding we classify as scientific, esthetic, moral and so on. There were clear distinctions, but they were made according to different, though equally rational, categories. (The idea that reason and logic are not the same, that logic is only a specialized tool of reason, also seems to be a difficult one. ) The intellectual life of the Indians of North Coastal British Columbia was notably rich. In this paper, which is a more concentrated continuation of an article published in Canadian Literature for February 1975, entitled Wilderness No Wilderness, I am concerned with an astronomical and seasonal diagram which, because of its abstract and geometrical nature, forms a kind of armature upon which many other ideas may be moulded. This diagram is best set forth in the astronomical and calendrical stories of the Haida weather-prophet and astronomer, Walter
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".