The Test-theme in North American Mythology
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Published: 1908
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Harry 1883-1957 Lowie
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Author: Robert Harry Lowie
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Published: 2018-02
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Test-Theme in North American Mythology: Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University Now, that these consistently developed tales are nature - mythological in either of the ways mentioned is not a fundamental law of comparative mythology, but an hypothesis. That they are is inferred from the criteria. But the criteria are ambiguous; all are intelligible as elements of a human folk-tale. Greed and rapid growth are as natural in a human as in a celestial hero. Though the moon-spots are sometimes conceived as warts or lice, an ogre with these characteristics is not necessarily a lunar being. Magical births present no difficulty, if we remember with Wundt (93: 330) that the universe of folk-lore is dominated by magic. The birth of splinter-foot-girl from a splinter need not have any further psychological basis in common with other ideas of magical conception. (31 That it has anything to do with the fertilization of the earth by the sun 34: 602) would be an entirely arbitrary assumption. From the same point of view the restoration of the dead is intelligible without resorting to a corresponding phenomenon in the heavens. As for the swallowing motive, Ehrenreich admits that the natural processes which gave rise to it are not necessarily the same throughout: eclipses as well as the sunset may have inspired the idea. (33 53, But if a plural origin is admitted, it is difficult to understand why every instance of swallowing must go back to some celeszial occurrence. In the Ute tale of Porcupine killing a fat buffalo that carries him across stream in his paunch it is difficult in spite of the specious analogy of quills and the sun's rays to see more than a simple animal tale. (55: The observation of animals yields examples enough of swallowing, and the grotesquely unrealistic transformation of such observations involves nothing psy chologically improbable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert Harry Lowie
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Published: 2013-09
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...are not to be considered in interpreting the character of the preceding narrative. For the Pueblo myth, however, this line of argument is not conclusive. A definite refutation of the naturalistic theory depends on the available material. It is demonstrable that all the trial-incidents found in the Pueblo versions are also found in other combinations. It has also been shown that none of the adventures related in the second part can be used to enforce the naturalistic argument based on the initial portion. Nevertheless, we are still confronted by the combination of the testtheme with the visit to the sky, descent from the sun, and magical birth. In Pueblo mythology there are not, as on the North Pacific coast, human heroes undergoing precisely the same adventures as the Sun's children; nor can it be directly proved, as in the case of the Star-Boy and BloodClot cycle, that so-called criteria have combined secondarily. My objection to the naturalistic interpretation of this case rests on the general principle that no criteria distinguishing celestial from human heroes exist, that explicit solar connections are accordingly insignificant. This principle, already illustrated by a limited number of examples, is most conclusively established by the proof that an indifferent tale may, as in the myth of Qais, acquire a celestial aspect. In the same way it is possible to dispose of the theory that in some cases the plot has a solely explanatory function. When it is shown that celestial names and explanations of natural phenomena are joined to independently developed tales, the naturalistic theory becomes untenable. I shall accordingly furnish additional examples of secondary association. X. EXPLANATORY MYTHS. According to the naturalistic theory, ..
Author: Anna Ruth Haworth
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Published: 1926
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 496
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Publisher: Canada, Department of Mines, Geological Survey
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Ehrenreich's mythological theory - how he arrived at his conclusion and whether it is tenable.
Author: Martha Warren Beckwith
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Published: 1928
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roland Burrage Dixon
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented by the American Anthropological Association and the American Folk-Lore Society to the nineteenth International Congress of Americanists, October 1914. Topics include mythology, religion, physical anthropology, material culture etc. of North American Indians.