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

Title:

ISBN:

9780394740188

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1984]

Physical Description:

xv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Series statement from jacket.

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.

Subject Term:

Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore

Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific -- Religion

Indian mythology--North America

Indians of North America -- Folklore

Indians of North America -- Religion

Indigenous peoples--Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore

Indigenous peoples--Northwest, Pacific -- Religion

Indigenous peoples--North America -- Folklore.

Indigenous peoples--North America -- Religion

Added Author:

Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008