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Creation Myths of Primitive America

Presents the original translation of Yana mythology by American linguist, Jeremiah Curtin, who recounts the Native American culture and beliefs as well as an account of its tragic demise.

By Jeremiah Curtin

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9781110348381 | Bibliolife, May 31, 2009, cover price $45.99

9781576079393 | Abc-Clio Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents the original translation of Yana mythology by American linguist, Jeremiah Curtin, who recounts the Native American culture and beliefs as well as an account of its tragic demise.

9780405136979 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1986, cover price $36.95

Paperback:

9781505975673 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 28, 2015, cover price $21.99

9781486155316 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $9.94

9781110348329 | Bibliolife, May 31, 2009, cover price $42.75

9780766145603 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 1, 2003, cover price $43.95

Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend

Product Description: Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They are horses that shimmer with colour and run swift as the wind. The Lakota capture and tame them, and the people grow rich and powerful...read more

By Agnes Gay (trans) and Donald F. Montileaux

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9780985290528 | Bilingual edition (South Dakota State Historical, April 1, 2014), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal.

Re-creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices

Product Description: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and HernÃ¡ndez show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period...read more

By Christine Hernandez

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9781607322207 | Univ Pr of Colorado, October 15, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts.

South Pacific Mythology

Product Description: Who is Frigg? What is Asgard? Why are myths so important in our lives? Myths are a rich source of history. People use them to make sense of our world. Even before myths were written down, people told and retold the stories of the gods and goddesses of their homeland...read more

By Jim Ollhoff

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9781617147272 | Abdo Group, August 1, 2011, cover price $27.07 | About this edition: Who is Frigg?

The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1

Product Description: For many readers, Genesis 1 2 is simply the biblical account of creation. But ancient Israel could speak of creation in different ways, and the cultures of the ancient near east provided an even richer repertoire of creation myths...read more

By Mark S. Smith

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9780800663735 | Fortress Pr, November 1, 2009, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: For many readers, Genesis 1 2 is simply the biblical account of creation.

Sedna: Goddess of the Sea

Product Description: Sedna: Goddess of the Sea is an explanatory tale; a unique synthesis of two variations of the ancient Inuit legend of how sea animals came to be. Sedna was a beautiful young woman and many young men asked to marry her, but she rejected every one...read more

By Joel Rudinger

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9780918342300 | Cambric Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sedna: Goddess of the Sea is an explanatory tale; a unique synthesis of two variations of the ancient Inuit legend of how sea animals came to be.

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9780918342317 | Cambric Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Sedna: Goddess of the Sea is an explanatory tale; a unique synthesis of two variations of the ancient Inuit legend of how sea animals came to be.

Tatanka And the Lakota People: A Creation Story

After Iktomi, the Spider, tricks mankind into going to Earth, Tanaka, the holy man, takes pity on their plight and, changing himself into a buffalo, gives up his life so that men could have food, clothing, and shelter.

By Donald F. Montileaux (illustrator)

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9780974919584 | South Dakota State Historical, September 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After Iktomi, the Spider, tricks mankind into going to Earth, Tanaka, the holy man, takes pity on their plight and, changing himself into a buffalo, gives up his life so that men could have food, clothing, and shelter.

Native American Mythology

Discusses the origins and cultural significance of Native American mythology and folklore and describes common myths involving the creation of the world, animals and their behavior, tricksters, and heroes.

By Fred Ramen

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9781404207387 | Rosen Pub Group, September 30, 2007, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: Discusses the origins and cultural significance of Native American mythology and folklore and describes common myths involving the creation of the world, animals and their behavior, tricksters, and heroes.

When God Made The Dakotas

When the Great Spirit, Wakantaka, consults with Woksape, the Dakota medicine man, before creating the Dakotas, Woksape soon realizes that many of the beautiful things he envisioned have already been given away--but when Woksape allows the Great Spirit to fashion the Dakotas in his own way, he discovers that the Dakota lands are far more stunning than he ever imagined.

By Timothy Kessler and Paul Morin (illustrator)

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9780802852755 | Eerdmans Pub Co, February 15, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Relates the legend of how the Dakotas were created by the Great Spirit, Wakantanka.

American Indian Creation Myths

Product Description: Myths tell us much about a people. And all cultures have creation myths. The myths collected by the author in this book tell us about the rich and varied lives and imagination of the first Americans. They vary from simple to complex and all attempt to answer the question of human origin...read more

By Teresa Pijoan

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9780865344716 | Sunstone Pr, October 31, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Myths tell us much about a people.

Iroquois Creation Story: John Arthur Gibson And J.n.b. Hewitt's Myth of the Earth Grasper

By John C. Mohawk

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9780976127901 | Mohawk Pubns, January 1, 2005, cover price $14.00

Native American Creation Myths

By Jeremiah Curtin

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9780486437361 | Dover Pubns, September 10, 2004, cover price $14.95

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: The Iroquois Story of Creation

Product Description: A native American tale of how the world began describes how a woman who fell from the sky uses her powers of creation to form the earth and heavens.

By John Bierhorst

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9781571781208 | Council Oaks Distribution, October 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A native American tale of how the world began describes how a woman who fell from the sky uses her powers of creation to form the earth and heavens.

9780688106805 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describes how the creation of the world was begun by a woman who fell down to earth from the sky country, and how it was finished by her two sons Sapling and Flint.

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9780688106812 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1993, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Describes how the creation of the world was begun by a woman who fell down to earth from the sky country, and how it was finished by her two sons Sapling and Flint.

Myths of Creation

Product Description: An exploration of mythology, religious belief, and scientific theory on the origins of the universe.Â AÂ classic study of mythology, this examination investigates stories from all continents and agesâwith all their startling similarities and contrastsâto reveal the workings of the human mind and imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip Freund

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9780720612028 | Peter Owen Ltd, September 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An exploration of mythology, religious belief, and scientific theory on the origins of the universe.

9780671513412 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1966, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: An exploration of mythology, religious belief, and scientific theory on the origins of the universe.

Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story

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By Karl W. Giberson and Donald A. Yerxa

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9780742507647 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $103.00

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9780742507654 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $33.00

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Myths from the Arapaho to the Zuni: An Anthology

Product Description: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons were at the center of a large body of myths in which they played important roles, from creators of earth and all life to heroes (male and female) in battle. From approximately 160 extant Native American myths, Jim Elledge has selected all those which would be most readily identifiable by contemporary readers as dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals, as well as those which focus on them as prominent, if not main, characters in the myths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jim Elledge (editor)

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9780820452869 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 2002, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons were at the center of a large body of myths in which they played important roles, from creators of earth and all life to heroes (male and female) in battle.

The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folk Tales

A Kent State professor culls forty-one tales from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching into a collection with several stories to represent each country of West Africa, including Niger, Mali, Mauritania, and Cameroon. Original. (view table of contents)

By Buchi Offodile

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9781566563758 | Interlink Pub Group Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A Kent State professor culls forty-one tales from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching into a collection with several stories to represent each country of West Africa, including Niger, Mali, Mauritania, and Cameroon.

Pia Toya: A Goshute Indian Legend

Retells the story of the creation of the Deep Creek Mountains by Mother Hawk after Coyote steals her breakfast, and offers information on the Goshute people, legends, and history.

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9780874806618 | Univ of Utah Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Retells the story of the creation of the Deep Creek Mountains by Mother Hawk after Coyote steals her breakfast, and offers information on the Goshute people, legends, and history.

The Oneida Creation Story

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By Harvey Antone, Demus Elm, Bryan Gick (editor) and Floyd Glenn Lounsbury (editor)

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9780803267428 | Bison Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.95

The People With Five Fingers: A Native Californian Creation Tale

A tale shared by the different native peoples of California tells how Coyote and the other animals created the world and the people who came to live in it.

By John Bierhorst and Robert A. Parker (illustrator)

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9780761450580 | Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, March 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A tale shared by the different native peoples of California tells how Coyote and other animals created the world and the people who came to live in it.

The Primeval Revelation in Myths and in Genesis: A Dynamic Subject Much Neglected by Theologians

Product Description: In this provocative study, Zimmerman examines the creation myths of traditional cultures and compares them to Genesis in terms of symbolic content. While the Old Testament in general has only vague references to life in heaven, the myths discuss the notion of an after-life in a more vivid manner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Anthony Zimmerman

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9780761814870 | Univ Pr of Amer, October 1, 1999, cover price $57.99 | About this edition: In this provocative study, Zimmerman examines the creation myths of traditional cultures and compares them to Genesis in terms of symbolic content.

Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle

Product Description: Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marc De Civrieux and David M. Guss (editor)

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9780292715899 | Reissue edition (Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present.

Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours: A Traditional Creation Story As Told by a Seneca Elder

Product Description: Has recorded one of the ancient oral histories of one of Native America's most ancient people - the Seneca.

By Twylah Hurd Nitsch

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9780826410153 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, February 1, 1997, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: Has recorded one of the ancient oral histories of one of Native America's most ancient people - the Seneca.

Stories of the Beginning: Genesis 1-11 and Other Creation Stories

Product Description: Book by Van Wolde, Ellen, Wolde, E. J. Van (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ellen Van Wolde and E. J. Van Wolde

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9780819217141 | Morehouse Pub Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Van Wolde, Ellen, Wolde, E.

Green Tales

Eight myths from around the world which present different stories of creation

By Beatrice Tanaka

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9781568580203 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eight myths from around the world which present different stories of creation

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