Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-s classic study of the subject. Some-times, as is the case with the Kootenays, abilityto draw does not seem to have been accom-panied by exuberant pictography. The WalumOlum of the Delawares. the calendars of theKiowa, Sioux. Pima, etc., are special develop-ments of primitive records, the highest form ofwhich is seen in the manuscripts (books) ofthe Aztecs and Mayas of a religio-historicalcharacter. The pictographic records of theOjibwa medicine men have been studied by
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■f. >< O•3 p INDIANS Hoffman, and the rite-literature of the Chero-kee by James Mooney. The native literature ofprimitive America has been the subject of specialmonographs by Dr. D. G. Brinlon. The Span-ish-American countries have furnished severalwriters and investigators of Indian descent. Religion.— The mythology and religion of theAmerican Indians have received particular treat-ment at the hands of Miiller, Brinton, Powell, etc.Perhaps the most general myth of importance isthat of the divine hero, teacher, and civilizcr,who after accomplishing his labors, leaves theearth, promising to return at some future time.This myth is found in Mexico (Quetzalcoatl),Yucatan (Kukulkan), Colombia (Bochica),northeast Xorth America (Manabozho, Glus-kap, etc.) Somewhat analogous is the mythof the twin reformers of the primitive worldamong the Pueblo Indians, Navahos, etc. TheIroquoian stock have the myth of the contestof the good and the bad mind. The Algonkianshave a myth-cycle of the

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