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American Indian myths and legends / selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pantheon fairy tale & folklore libraryPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [1984]Copyright date: �1984Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394507967
  • 9780394507965
  • 0394740181
  • 9780394740188
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: American Indian myths and legends.; Online version:: American Indian myths and legends.DDC classification:
  • 398.2/08997 19
LOC classification:
  • E98.F6 A47 1984
Other classification:
  • BE 5601
  • HR 1981
Contents:
Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit: tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero: monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup: war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes: tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries: trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs: stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night: ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever: visions of the end.
Summary: Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world.
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 398.2 ERD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 103270
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-525) and index.

Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit: tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero: monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup: war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes: tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries: trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs: stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night: ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever: visions of the end.

Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world.

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