Native American Mythology - Brossura

Alexander, Hartley Burr

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486444155 ISBN 13: 9780486444154

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2005

Riassunto

This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales.
The stories begin in the far North, among Norsemen and Eskimos, and range through the land of the forest dwellers, with extensive representation of tribes such as the Iroquois and Algonquian. Legends from the Gulf region and Great Plains encompass sun worship and trickster pranks, and from the Indians of the mountain and desert come tales of Navajo gods and episodes from the ghost world. The collection concludes among the natives of the Pacific coast, with stories of secret societies, totemism and totemic spirits, and the Raven Cycle — the supernatural lore surrounding the black bird who hung the sun, moon, and stars in the sky, put the salmon in the rivers and the fish in the sea, and amused itself by fooling people with its shape-shifting tricks.

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Contenuti

Author's Preface Introduction I. The Far North 1. Norseman and Skraeling 2. The Eskimo's World 3. The World-Powers 4. The World's Regions 5. The Beginnings 6. Life and Death II. The Forest Tribes 1. The Forest Region 2. Priest and Pagan 3. The Manitos 4. The Great Spirit 5. The Frame of the World 6. The Powers Above 7. The Powers Below 8. The Elders of the Kinds III. The Forest Tribes (continued) 1. Iroquoian Cosmogony 2. Algonquian Cosmogony 3. The Deluge 4. The Slaying of the Dragon 5. The Theft of Fire 6. Sun-Myths 7. The Village of Souls 8. Hiawatha IV. The Gulf Region 1. Tribes and Lands 2. Sun-Worship 3. The New Maize 4. Cosmogonies 5. Animal Stories 6. Tricksters and Wonder-Folk 7. Mythic History V. The Great Plains 1. The Tribal Stocks 2. An Athapascan Pantheon 3. The Great Gods of the Plains 4. The Life of the World 5. "Medicine" 6. Father Sun 7. Mother Earth and Daughter Corn 8. The Morning Star 9. The Gods of the Elements VI. The Great Plains (continued) 1. Athapascan Cosmogonies 2. Siouan Cosmogonies 3. Caddoan Cosmogonies 4. The Son of the Sun 5. The Mystery of Death 6. Prophets and Wonder-Workers 7. Migration-Legends and Year-Counts VII. Mountain and Desert 1. The Great Divide 2. The Gods of the Mountains 3. The World and its Denizens 4. Shahaptian and Shoshonean World-Shapers 5. Coyote 6. Spirits, Ghosts, and Bogies 7. Prophets and the Ghost-Dance VIII. Mountain and Desert (continued) 1. The Navaho and their Gods 2. The Navaho Genesis 3. The Creation of the Sun 4. Navaho Ritual Myths 5. Apache and Piman Mythology 6. Yuman Mythology IX. The Pueblo Dwellers 1. The Pueblos 2. Pueblo Cosmology 3. Gods and Katcinas 4. The Calendar 5. The Great Rites and their Myths 6. Sia and Hopi Cosmogonies 7. Zu-i Cosmogony X. The Pacific Coast, West 1. The California-Oregon Tribes 2. Religion and Ceremonies 3. The Creator 4. Cataclysms 5. The First People 6. Fire and Light 7. Death and the Ghost-World XI. The Pacific Coast, North 1. Peoples of the North-West Coast 2. Totemism and Totemic Spirits 3. Secret Societies and their Tutelaries 4. The World and its Rulers 5. The Sun and the Moon 6. The Raven Cycle 7. Souls and their Powers Notes Bibliography Plates

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Book by Alexander Hartley Burr

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486444155
• ISBN 13: 9780486444154
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 361
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile