Creation Myths Of Primitive America

Written by a famous American translator and folklorist, Creation Myths of Primitive America includes the creation stories featuring Olelebis and Ilhataina in addition to the tales of the two sisters, Haka Lasi and Tsore Jowa, the deam of Juiwaiyu and the first battle in the world.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.

Reproduction of the original: Myths of Primitive America by Jeremiah Curtin

Explore the mythology of primitive America with Jeremiah Curtin's scholarly work 'Creation Myths of Primitive America in Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind Part 1'. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cultural and psychological aspects of myth-making. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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THE creation myths of America form a complete system; they give a detailed and circumstantial account of the origin of this world and of all things and creatures contained in it. In the course of the various narratives which compose this myth system an earlier world is described to us, with an order of existence and a method of conduct on which the life of primitive man in America was patterned.That earlier world had two periods of duration,—one of complete and perfect harmony; another of violence, collision, and conflict. The result and outcome of the second period was the creation of all that is animated on earth except man. Man, in the American scheme of creation, stands apart and separate; he is quite alone, peculiar, and special. Above all, he belongs to this continent. The white man was unknown to American myth-makers, as were also men of every other race and of every region outside of the Western Hemisphere.Described briefly and by an Indian, the American myth system is as follows: “There was a world before this one in which we are living at present; that was the world of the first people, who were different from us altogether. Those people were very numerous, so numerous that if a count could be made of all the stars in the sky, all the feathers on birds, all the hairs and fur on animals, all the hairs of our own heads, they would not be so numerous as the first people.”