The Pawnee MythologyU of Nebraska Press, 1. jan. 1997 - 546 strani The Pawnee Mythology, originally published in 1906, preserves 148 tales of the Pawnee Indians, who farmed and hunted and lived in earth-covered lodges along the Platte River in Nebraska. The stories, collected from surviving members of four bands-Skidi, Pitahauirat, Kitkehahki, and Chaui-were generally told during intermissions of sacred ceremonies. Many were accompanied by music. George A. Dorsey recorded these Pawnee myths early in the twentieth century after the tribe's traumatic removal from their ancestral homeland to Oklahoma. He included stories of instruction concerning supernatural beings, the importance of revering such gifts as the buffalo and corn, and the results of violating nature. Hero tales, forming another group, usually centered on a poor boy who overcame all odds to benefit the tribe. Other tales invited good fortune, recognized wonderful beings like the witch women and spider women, and explained the origin of medicine powers. Coyote tales were meant to amuse while teaching ethics. George A. Dorsey (1868-1931) was a distinguished anthropologist and journalist who also wrote about the traditions of the Arapahos, Arikaras, and Osages. Douglas R. Parks is a professor of anthropology and associate director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University. He is the editor of James R. Murie's Ceremonies of the Pawnee (Nebraska 1989) and the editor and translator of Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians (Nebraska 1996). |
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Preface | 5 |
Introduction | 7 |
MYTHS | 8 |
TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS 1 Origin of the Chaui C | 13 |
The Four Gods in the West K | 19 |
The SmallAnts Bundle and the Buffalo C | 21 |
The Four Gods of the North K | 28 |
LongTongue the Rolling Head C | 31 |
The Poor Boy and the Mud Ponies P | 123 |
The Origin of the Buffalo Bundle K | 124 |
The Last of the White Buffalo K | 126 |
How the World is to Come to an End P | 134 |
The Talking Membrum Virile K | 137 |
The Hermaphrodite K | 138 |
The Scalped Men S | 139 |
BurntBelly and his Dreams | 156 |
How Evening Stars Daughter was Overcome S | 38 |
HandsomeBoy and AfterBirth | 39 |
The Daughter of the Evening Star and her Sacred Bundle S | 42 |
Origin of the Basket Dice Game S | 44 |
The Origin of a New Band K | 46 |
How the People got the CrowLance K | 50 |
The Origin of the PipeStick Ceremony S | 52 |
The Girl who Married a Star K | 56 |
The GrainofCorn Bundle S | 58 |
The Meteorite People S | 61 |
BuffaloWife and CornWife S | 62 |
The Poor Boy who Married the Chiefs Daughter C | 68 |
The Cannibal Witch and the Boy who Conquered the Buffalo K | 72 |
The Warrior and the Black Lightning Arrow S | 82 |
The MedicineMan who Killed his | 85 |
Spotted Horse a Brave and a Chief S | 86 |
The Boy who was Given Power to Call the Buffalo K | 90 |
The Man who Called the Buffalo P | 95 |
The Boy who Preferred Woman to Power S | 102 |
The Buffalo Gaming Sticks S | 104 |
The Boy who Called the Buffalo and Went to NorthWind K | 106 |
The Man who Married a Buffalo P | 109 |
How the WitchWoman was Killed K | 114 |
Pursuit by a Rattling Skull the Pleiades K | 119 |
Origin of the Clam Shell | 164 |
Young Hawk Hunts for his Mother | 185 |
How the Cannibal SpiderWoman was Overcome | 219 |
The WitchWoman who Stole the Wonderful Robe | 225 |
WoodRatWoman who wished to be Married | 232 |
THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER | 241 |
The Lightnings Medicine Ceremony | 254 |
The StoneMan MedicineLodge | 279 |
The Squash Medicine | 296 |
The Wonderful Boy who Killed his Father | 304 |
P | 318 |
The Buffalo Power and the Wild Horse Dance | 355 |
The Buffalo Medicine Dance | 369 |
The Lost Warrior and the Singing Buffalo Medicine | 377 |
S | 407 |
The Man who Went to Spirit Land | 413 |
COYOTE Tales | 428 |
Coyote and the Rolling Stone | 435 |
Coyote Steals Turtles Buffalo | 452 |
Coyote and Bear | 455 |
S | 461 |
How WildCat Killed the Bear | 467 |
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