Author: C. Hart Merriam

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9781330117057

Excerpt from The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California Preface; Introduction; Note; Ancient Myths; How Wit'-tab-bah the Robin got his Red Breast; How Ah-hd'-le stole the Sun for the Valley People; How Ah-ha'-le stole the Morning; How Tol'-le-loo stole the Fire for the Mountain People; Why the Lizard Man did not restore Dead People to Life; The Coyote and the Lizard; How the People got Five Fingers; How they obtained Fire; and How they broke up into Tribes; The Birth of Wek'-wek and the Creation of Man; Ke'-lok and his Han-na'-boo; The Creation of Man; How they got the Fire; How Kah'-kool the Raven became a Great Hunter; How Kah'-kah-loo the Ravens became People; The Bear and the Fawns, as told by the Northern Mewuk; The Bear and the Fawns, as told by the Tuolumne Mewuk; How the Children of He-le'-jah became People; The Greed of His'-sik the Skunk; Nek'-na-ka'-tah the Rock Maiden; The Jealousy of Wek'-wek and the Death of Lo'-wut 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.