Myths and Legends of the Indians of the Southwest
Author: Bertha Pauline Dutton
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 48
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Author: Bertha Pauline Dutton
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 48
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780883880623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a selection of traditional drawings and stories from the Navajo, Pima, and Apache bands of Southwest Indians.
Author: Bertha Pauline Dutton
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Published: 1978-03
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780883880494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyths and Legends of the Navajo, Pima & Apache are told by two long-time students of the subject.
Author: Various
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 109
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Bertha Pauline Dutton
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katharine Berry Judson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-03-04
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781986098175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis looks at some of the old tales and stories spread about the Southwest during the 19th century, drawing upon Native legends and mythology. From the preface: "In the beginning of the New-making, the ancient fathers lived successively in four caves in the Four fold-containing-earth. The first was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time; the second, dark as the night in the stormy season; the third, like a valley in starlight; the fourth, with a light like the dawning. Then they came up in the night-shine into the World of Knowing and Seeing. So runs the Zuni myth, and it typifies well the mental development, insight, and beauty of speech of the Indian tribes along the Pacific Coast, from those of Alaska in the far-away Northland, with half of life spent in actual darkness and more than half in the struggle for existence against the cold and the storms loosed by fatal curiosity from the bear's bag of bitter, icy winds, to the exquisite imagery of the Zunis and other desert tribes, on their sunny plains in the Southland. It was in the night-shine of this southern land, with its clear, dry air and brilliant stars, that the Indians, looking up at the heavens above them, told the story of the bag of stars of Utset, the First Mother, who gave to the scarab beetle, when the floods came, the bag of Star People, sending him first into the world above. It was a long climb to the world above and the tired little fellow, once safe, sat down by the sack. After a while he cut a tiny hole in the bag, just to see what was in it, but the Star People flew out and filled the heavens everywhere. Yet he saved a few stars by grasping the neck of the sack, and sat there, frightened and sad, when Utset, the First Mother, asked what he had done with the beautiful Star People. The Sky-father himself, in those early years of the New-making, spread out his hand with the palm downward, and into all the wrinkles of his hand set the semblance of shining yellow corn-grains, gleaming like sparks of fire in the dark of the early World-dawn. "See," said Sky-father to Earth-mother, "our children shall be guided by these when the Sun-father is not near and thy mountain terraces are as darkness itself. Then shall our children be guided by light." So Sky-father created the stars. Then he said, "And even as these grains gleam upward from the water, so shall seed grain like them spring up from the earth when touched by water, to nourish our children." And he created the golden Seed-stuff of the corn." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: Earle R Forrest
Publisher: Rio Grande Press
Published: 1990-09
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780873801751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katharine Berry Judson
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bertha Pauline Dutton
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Published: 1979
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Published: 1993
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