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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.</p>...4010214Native American Mythology270329https://www.gandhi.com.mx/native-american-mythology-9780486122793/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3714349/e334ed10-8d8a-487f-ae4d-330dfed07273.jpg?v=638385767732030000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3711146/e334ed10-8d8a-487f-ae4d-330dfed07273.jpg?v=638385763506430000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20129780486122793_W3siaWQiOiI5ZWFjNmI2Yy1kNTYzLTQzODktOWRkMS01MDA3MDMxYzU0NDMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMyOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjU5LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI3MCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDgtMjJUMDI6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780486122793_<p>This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century Americas premier ethnographer/anthropologists. 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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.</p>(*_*)9780486122793_<p>This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century Americas premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continents 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.<br />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.</p>...(*_*)9780486122793_<p>This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century Americas premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continents 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.</p>...9780486122793_Dover Publicationslibro_electonico_7fead1f9-41bf-4d37-a953-030ac717ced7_9780486122793;9780486122793_9780486122793Hartley BurrInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingrooves-epub-03fa8f35-bad7-41ed-ad95-21d287440633.epub2012-02-08T00:00:00+00:00Dover Publications