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 Analyze the video and comment upon the types of signs you notice as well as their denotation, connotation and myths they sustain.

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I’ve noticed different symbols which are components ofthe meaning of the video. What is more, they belong to different mediums. In the video we can see images such as: //buzzard// as a symbol of death //bird's eye// as a symbol of knowledge //desert// as a symbol of emptiness and loneliness mountains symbolize infinity. //Sky and flight// as a symbol of freedom Besides, it should be noted that //colors//havespecific meaning too. Yellow - gold and wealth; red - danger, risk; green color -health and freshness; blue color - calm. We can hear specific music in the video, which influences me. It creates suspense. The text in the video tells us about the legend, in particular, about the buzzard as a typical bird for the Indian culture. Music corresponds to the content of the text; text corresponds to the images in the video. So, together theyprovide a comprehensive picture. Without music, the text would not create the proper impression on the listener , without pictures it would be difficult to imagine the content of the legend.
 * By Nastya Khokhlova **
 * Visual symbols:**
 * Non Verbal symbols**
 * Verbal symbols:**

There are three layers, which tell us the meaning of the video: 1. Images (pictures) We can find such symbols as buzzard (symbol of death), bird's eye (symbol of wisdom), image of canyons, which makes us understand, that the video will be connected with gold and death, also we see desert, which means loneliness (we see a man, which is alone in the desert, so he need to overcome obstacles alone, without help) and the last symbol, which I can find, is sky and flight, it symbolizes freedom and probably something, where are no people, where only birds can be. Also we can interpret meaning of colors: yellow and gravel mean gold, wealth (especially in core with desert), red color symbolize danger, risk. 2. Sound The music means suspense, anxiety. But the song makes another effect, it's calming and brave. 3. Text Text is presented as a legend and as a lyrics. In a legend again we have a buzzard (death and wisdom, knowledge), the gold of Apache. The legend tells us about exactly this bird, because it's a typical bird for this region, and because of that is a typical bird of American Indian's culture. The song is reflected in pictures (dessert, bird's eye, gold), that's why in this point we have the same meaning, as in the first. To sum it up, image, sound and text give us the whole meaning of the video. They supplement each over.
 * By Ekaterina Zemlyanuchina**

There are different symbols in this video: Scary sounds in the beginning create a sense of anxiety, tension and warning. And the music makes us feel lightness, clarity. In the video, there are only brown, red and yellow colors. Yellow symbolizes lie, deception, envy, strife. These characteristics are also connected with searches of gold and wealth itself. I think all these signs help to understand the meaning and significance of the legend better. Moreover these signs are reflected in the lyrics and in the legend. For example: It helps us to combine sound perception and imaginative perception. This legend has no end. The gold hasn't been found. That's why it symbolizes something unattainable. Myth as a cultural phenomenon is also expressed in symbols. For example: gold gives freedom and buzzard is a symbol of death.
 * By Anastasiya Bondarchuk **
 * buzzard is a symbol of death;
 * bird's eye means vision, knowledge;
 * flight and gold are symbols of freedom;
 * desert means loneliness, despair and suspense;
 * mountains symbolize infinity.
 * bird's eye is a symbol of vision and knowledge. In the song there was: «Only buzzard knows all»;
 * mountains symbolize infinity. The gold hasn't been found;
 * yellow color of gold and the words «Gold deceive us»;
 * desert is a symbol of suspense and «We do not know what will be later».

I've noticed different signs. They are: All these symbols represent the contrast of the upper and lower worlds, death and life; something unattainable for human beings.
 * By Kseniya Romasheva**
 * Bird and bird's eye which mean death.
 * Yellow desert is a symbol of loneliness and barrenness.
 * Flight symbolizes a freedom.
 * Mountains mean constancy, eternity, strength and stiffness. It's a sacred symbol of power and reclusion.
 * Sky. In all cultures the sky is controposed to the earth and lower world; it's an inaccessibility.
 * The way farer is alone, nobody surrounds him, he has to overcome difficulties by himself.

Music in the beginning creates a suspense, tension; I was even a bit scared. But when the singer began to sing, calmness came to my mind. Anyway, after prelude I expect something bad happen. We see only yellow, brown and red colours. They are the colours of danger and warning; but in many cultures yellow colour is a colour of God and gold. So it combines with the picture and with the music at the same time. The text of the myth also tells us about the death ( "I was really coming over here to wait for you") and the gold of Apache. Myth is a cultural phenomenon; in our case buzzard is a typical bird for the Indian culture.

__By Makeeva Kseniya__

//**Music:**// At the beginning of the video we listen to music with some dangerous, that smth bad should happend. But at the end of the video we hear calm, lyric, melodies and quiet music. //**Colors:**// We see only gold, blue and sometimes green colors. Gold color is symbol of wealth, force, honesty, fidelity and constancy. Probably it is a color of the other world. Blue means easy, fresh, quiet, slackness and even the slightly passive. Green color means calm, good luck, updating, health, freshness, vital forces. //**Landscape:**// Huge space with huge mountaines and emptiness.
 * //Possible signs://**
 * 1) Sun symbolized threat
 * 2) Bird's eye - death, no life
 * 3) Buzzard - death
 * 4) Flight - freedom
 * 5) Mountains - elevation, stability, nobility, power, strength
 * 6) Blue Sky - honesty, clarity, kindness, calmness
 * 7) Desert - heat, endlessness, empty and loneliness
 * 8) Height - freedom
 * 9) Traveler - searcher
 * 10) Heat - emergense of difficulties, fight for a survival

There are different kinds of the signs in this video: **visual, music and the text of the legend**. Let’s start our analysis with the visual signs. 1)__There are the following visual signs:__ The Sun is the symbol of TRUTH (as in its light everything becomes clear). Bird’s eye - the eye usually means divine knowledge. (In many cultures as such all-seeing eye the Sun acts, or it is symbolized by an eye). In this video this symbol is mixed with an icon. Buzzard –is the symbol of death. Flight - is the symbol of freedom. Mountains – symbolizes aspiration, an inclination. Sky -– is a symbol of infinity, height, the leasure kingdom, the higher authority, order in the Universe. Desert- symbolizes loneliness and death. Heat –is a symbol of death. Gold- is a firmness, superiority, wealth. 2) __Music.__ In this video we can define music as an index because here music is a mode in which the signifier is not arbitrary, but is directly connected in some way to the signified. **Conclusion**: It seems absolutely not vigorous-it is the sign of absence of life-death. More than that, it is sometimes disturbing, especially in the beginning-it makes as to be nervous. 3) T__he text of the legend.__ The main idea: people searched for the canyon of Gold, but they never found it. That’s why it is just a legend. Nobody saw it, probably it doesn’t exist. **This legend symbolizes something unattainable;** we will never know the truth. We can die and we still will not find the gold – symbol of happiness, the meaning of life and the aim. We can call it different names, but sometimes we don’t know, what we are looking for.
 * __by Ekaterina Gordeyeva__**
 * Conclusion:** all these signs can be divided into 2 groups. The first symbolizes unattainable knowledge, which people can not achieve (the sun, bird’s eye, flight, mountains, sky, gold). The second group symbolizes death (buzzard, desert, heat).

__By Kalashnikova Svetlana__


 * __Possible signs: __**
 * Sun means gold and threat.
 * Bird’s eye - shadowing
 * Buzzard – death
 * Flight - freedom
 * Mountains - confidence, stability, invariance, inviolability; way to the sky, to paradise, to a purgatory, hell … The mountain also a revival symbol from the dead; for pilgrimage; mystics, loneliness, wisdom, high thoughts.
 * Sky - a symbol of power of destiny which operates all terrestrial fulfillments.
 * Height - aspiration to the purpose.
 * Desert- loneliness and dismissal, and also place for reflection, silent divine revelation.
 * Traveler – searcher.
 * Heat - emergence of difficulties.
 * Emptiness - image of a non-existence, absence.
 * Gold- symbol of wisdom, esoteric knowledge, secrets of Earth, statement; silence; advantages, greatness, tsarstvennost, force, wealth, abundance; Sun, sunlight, fire, hidden treasures, wealth, love, life elixir; hearts, blood; money, earthly blessings, destruction, degradation, envy …


 * __Types of signs: __**

__<span style="color: #525252; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Symbol: __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a mode in which the signifier does __//not resemble//__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> the signified but which is fundamentally __//arbitrary//__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> or purely conventional
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Sun
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Bird's eye
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Buzzard
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Flight
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Gold
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Sky

__<span style="color: #525252; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Index: __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a mode in which the signifier is __//not arbitrary//__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> but is __//directly connected//__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> in some way (physically or causally) to the signified
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Traveler
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Emptiness
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Heat

__<span style="color: #525252; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Icon: __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">a mode in which the signifier is perceived as __//resembling//__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> or imitating the signified (recognizably looking, sounding, feeling, tasting or smelling like it) - being similar in possessing some of its qualities
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Mountains
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000033; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Desert

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">"A thousand years ago, in the Southwest,
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">The Legend: __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">there was an Apache legend.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">It told about a hidden canyon, guarded

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">by the Apache gods and rich with gold.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">As long as the Apaches kept the canyon

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">a secret and never touched the gold...

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">...they would be strong, powerful.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">That was the legend.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">When the Spanish Conquistadores came,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">they searched for that canyon.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">They called it "Canyon Del Oro",

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">meaning Canyon of Gold.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">But they never found it.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Three hundred years later,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">the Americans came.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">They heard about the legend, but they

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">called the canyon, "The Lost Adams".

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">That was because a man named Adams

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">saw it once, or so he said.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">But whether he did or not,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">he never saw anythin' again...

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">...because the Apaches

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">burned out his eyes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Everybody knew about that legend

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">and a lot of people believed it.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Canyon Del Oro. The Lost Adams.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">And then for a while there, back in 1874,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">they called it, "Mackenna's Gold"." <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">No colors of life. For example, green. Green is the "terrestrial" color meaning life, spring, nature flowering, youth, hope and fun. We see only blue and gold colors. If the yellow or gold and dark blue are in an equilibrium mix - there is a green. Blue means fanaticism, subordination, color of carelessness, it calms, radiates reliability, but thus, looking at it, it is impossible to concentrate. Gold is a color of glory, an inevitable victory. Positive aspect – a maturity, experience, wisdom, viability, inexhaustible resources; are negative aspect – pessimism, limitation, disgrace. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">On the one hand music is very quiet, melodious, lingering, on the other hand - increasing, accruing, creating effect of concern as if something bad should happen. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Huge space filled with emptiness and sharp mountains.
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Colors: __**
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Music: __**
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Landscape: __**

__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">By Tanya Zlobina __
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Signs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We may divide all signs into several groups. Each of the groups symbolizes something. The first group symbolizes death. The possible signs here are hot sun, heat, a buzzard (especially his eyes), desert, lack of plants. The second group includes signs of freedom: flight, sky, high mountains. A traveler is symbol of search. A searcher is always looking for something. And in our case an aim of searching is gold. Due to legend we know there is gold in mountains hidden in a secret place. And everyone wants to find it, but nobody has been good at it.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Colors.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> As we can see there are no pleasant colors: yellow (gold), blue, green. We’re used to know that these colors mean something alive, joyful and playful. And here we can feel only pressure and alarm. In this place they symbolize threat, the threat of death.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Music.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The music generally creates a feeling of calmness, relaxation, silence. But while we’re listening to this music we also feel some pressure. We’re expecting something to happen.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Landscapes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">An empty place is filled with high mountains with burning sand and lack of vegetation.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> [|**TURKEY BUZZARD**] [|**(noun)**]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> The noun **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">TURKEY BUZZARD **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> has 1 sense: //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Familiarity information: // **//<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">TURKEY BUZZARD //** //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">used as a noun is very rare. //
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">1. **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;"> **Dictionary entry details**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">• **<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">TURKEY BUZZARD ** **<span style="color: #7ebe00; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">(noun) **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Nouns denoting animals <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> [|buzzard] ; [|Cathartes aura] ; turkey buzzard; [|turkey vulture] <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> [|cathartid] ; [|New World vulture] (large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures) <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> [|Cathartes] ; [|genus Cathartes] (type genus of the Cathartidae: turkey vultures)
 * **<span style="color: #ae6900; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sense 1 ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Meaning: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Classified under: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Synonyms: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Hypernyms ("turkey buzzard" is a kind of...): **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Holonyms ("turkey buzzard" is a member of...): **


 * __<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Elena Men'shikova __**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"> __Possible signs:__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">__Music__ In the beginning sound of music creates intrigue, feeling of some mystery. Then we hear the monotonous beat of the drums, for us it always means some ancient culture, magic rituals, and native mind. Then there is the sound of guitar’s strings and the man’s voice. This calm music creates the feeling of way, travelling when you enjoy it. __Colours__ The main colour is yellow. It’s the colour of sun, gold, dessert, wealth, treasure. But in combination with dark brown, grey, and black it creates not so positive expression. They are the symbol of dryness, dessert, and death. __Landscape__ We see here special foreshortening – from the height of the bird’s flight. We see all these mountains and deserts as we are looking for something (as turkey buzzard looks for food). __ Myths __ Native Americans considered turkey buzzard be the symbol of peace because it kills nothing. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">In American Indian mythology, it was believed that the sun was originally much closer to the earth & was in danger of burning it up. First the fox unsuccessfully tried to pull the sun away in its mouth, accounting for the black inside of its mouth. Next the opossum unsuccessfully tried to pull the sun away with its tail, accounting for the hairless tail. Finally a beautiful fully feathered vulture successfully pushed the sun away from the earth with its head, thus becoming bald for eternity. The Pueblo Indians believed the vulture to be a symbol of purification, using the feathers of the Turkey Vulture to remove evil influences from people & objects. The return of the Turkey Vulture after winter was believed to signify the end of frosts. They often return to their summer feeding grounds precisely on the Vernal Equinox, the winter migration often starts around the Autumnal Equinox. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">**Symbols:** sun, bird’s eye closing and opening, mountains, desert, sky, river, canyon, horse and man, road, wings, flying (all these signs are conventional because, for example, in our culture the buzzard is considered to be a symbol of death but in native Americans' culture it's on the contrary considered to be the symbol of peace because it doesn't kill nothing). <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"> But in the same time we can take all these signs as just **icons** because their signifiers imitate the signified (for example, mountains look like mountains, guitar sounds like guitar and so on). <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">
 * 1) Sun – new life, new day, knowledge
 * 2) Bird’s eye closing and opening – changing, reflection
 * 3) Mountains – height, difficult to reach, something close to heaven
 * 4) Desert – emptiness, no borders, difficulties
 * 5) Sky – world of gods, freedom, clearness
 * 6) River – water, life, way
 * 7) Canyon – greatness, masterpiece, huge size
 * 8) . Horse and man – travelling, way of life, fate, loneliness, search of something
 * 9) Road – search, progress, aspiration
 * 10) Wings, flying – freedom, happiness, imagination