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Mother Earth, Father Sky : Native American myth
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- ISBN: 9780760774854
- ISBN: 760774854
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Physical Description:
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144 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm. - Publisher: New York : Barnes & Noble, 2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Writers, Tom Lowenstein, Piers Vitebsky ... created, edited and designed by Duncan Baird Publishers"--T.p. verso. Originally published: London : Duncan Baird, 1999. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 144) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Indian world. The first Americans -- A tapestry of peoples -- Picture essay: sacred places -- Earthdivers and creators. Earthdivers -- Of seasons, seals and cereals -- From darkness to light -- The search for home -- The Great spirit -- The origin of the sun, moon and stars -- The details of the universe -- The peopling of the earth -- How old age and death began -- Picture essay: myth and art -- The spiritual cosmos. "The earth is my mother" -- The circle of heaven -- Watery realms -- The sun, moon and stars -- Spirits of nature -- Thunder, lightning, fire and rainbow -- The society of animals -- Animal souls and the afterlife -- Soul theory and spirit flight -- The next life -- Keepers of order. Tricksters, the unpredictable spirits -- Raven and hare -- Coyote, a sly wild dog -- Heroes of myth and history -- Demons and monsters -- Sacred and terrifying creatures -- Humans and animals -- Animal spouses and guardians -- The vulnerability of animals -- Picture essay: on the warpath -- Totems and clans -- Northwest coast ceremonies -- A web of ceremony. Shamans and medicine -- Soul flights, dreams and vision quests -- Sacred societies -- Hunting ceremonies -- The Sun dance -- Revivals and cults -- Picture essay: the alien eye -- The Native American legacy. |
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