The Mythology of All Races ..., Količina 10Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch Marshall Jones Company, 1916 |
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abode aboriginal Ahsonnutli Algonquian animals ARBE Ataentsic Athapascan Bella Coola birds Boas body brother Cannibal ceremony Cherokee chief clan clouds Coast Coloured Corn cosmogony Coyote dance dead death deities demiurge Eagle earth Earth Doctor east elder Eskimo Father fire G. A. DORSEY girl gods Haida heaven hero Hopi human Indian Iroquoian Iroquois KROEBER land legend light live lodge M. C. STEVENSON magic maiden Maidu maize Manabozho Manito masks medicine monsters Moon MOONEY Morning Star mother mountain myth mythic mythology nature Navaho night North American North-West Notes Olelbis Pawnee Plains PLATE powers priest Pueblo rain Raven region rites ritual sacred shamans Siouan Sisiutl Skidi sky-world Smet Snake sometimes songs souls South-West Spirit stocks stone story symbol tale tell Text references Thunder tion Tirawa Tlingit totemic transformed tribes Tsimshian underworld VIII Wakonda warrior winds woman Zuñi
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Stran 90 - Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. "You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men! But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?
Stran 200 - Sun whom we hold to be our father and who thus came to exist and appear. With his appearance came the brightening of the spaces with light, and with the brightening of the spaces the great mist-clouds were thickened together and fell, whereby was evolved water in water; yea, and the world-holding sea. With his substance of flesh outdrawn from the surface of his person, the Sun-father formed the seed-stuff of twain worlds, impregnating therewith the great waters, and lo! in the heat of his light these...
Stran 96 - The circle represents a nest, and is drawn by the toe because the eagle builds its nest with its claws. Although we are imitating the bird making its nest, there is another meaning to the action; we are thinking of Tira'wa making the world for the people to live in. If you go on a high hill and look around, you will see the sky touching the earth on every side, and within this circular inclosure the people live. So the circles we have made are not only nests, but they also represent the circle Tira'wa...
Stran 60 - There is another world under this, and it is like ours in everything — animals, plants, and people — save that the seasons are different. The streams that come down from the mountains are the trails by which we reach this underworld, and the springs at their heads are the doorways by which we enter it, but to do this one must fast and go to water and have one of the underground people for a guide. We know that the seasons in the underworld are different from ours, because the water in the springs...
Stran 156 - In the Navaho Genesis, just recounted, there is a brief description of the creation of the Sun-Disk. A somewhat different and fuller version, recorded by James Stevenson, is as follows : "The first three worlds were neither good nor healthful. They moved all the time and made the people dizzy. Upon ascending into this world the Navaho found only darkness and they said, 'We must have light.
Stran 37 - If they see their fields verdant in the Spring, if they reap good and abundant harvests, and if their Cabins are crammed with ears of corn, they owe it to louskeha.
Stran 195 - All people awake, open your eyes, arise, Become Talahoya (child of light), vigorous, active, sprightly. Hasten clouds from the four world quarters ; Come snow in plenty, that water may be abundant when summer comes. Come ice and cover the fields, that after planting they may yield abundantly ; Let all hearts be glad ; The knowing ones will assemble in four days; They will encircle the village dancing and singing their lays * * * That moisture may come in abundance.
Stran 89 - O Morning Star! when you look down upon us, give us peace and refreshing sleep. Great Spirit! bless our children, friends, and visitors through a happy life. May our trails lie straight and level before us. Let us live to be old. We are all your children, and ask these things with good hearts.
Stran 156 - You have carried the white-shell beads and turquoise a long time; you should know what to say." Then with a crystal dipped in pollen she marked eyes and mouth on the turquoise and on the white-shell beads, and forming a circle around these with the crystal, she produced a slight light from the white-shell beads and a greater light from the turquoise, but the light was insufficient.
Stran 18 - Very frequently they address themselves to the Sky, paying it homage; and they call upon the Sun to be witness of their courage, of their misery, or of their innocence. But, above all, in treaties of peace and alliance with foreign Nations they invoke, as witnesses of their sincerity, the Sun and the Sky, which see into the depths of their hearts, and will wreak vengeance on the treachery of those who betray their trust and do not keep their word. So true is what Tertullian said of the most infidel...