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Tables of Contents for Song of the Stars
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Foreword
ix
Luisah Teish
Editor's Introduction
xiii
The Way of the Witch Doctor
1
32
The Illness
1
7
Beginning the Cure
8
5
The Sangoma's Apprentice
13
5
The Lore of the Soul
18
4
How a Sangoma Cures
22
4
The Bone Oracle
26
1
The Sangoma's Creative and Psychic Powers
27
6
The Great Goddess
33
28
The Tree of Life
33
7
How Evil Came Into the World
40
11
Amarava, and the Second People
51
5
The Childhood of the Second People
56
5
Of Goddesses and Gods
61
16
The Four Winds of the Goddess
61
6
How the Birds Saved the Earth
67
3
Ngungi, the Crippled Smith of the Gods
70
2
The Gift of the Magic Flower
72
5
Tales of the Trickster
77
44
The Theft of Fire
78
17
Kintu and the Cattle of the Sun
95
8
Kintu and the Star Goddess
103
6
The Trickster's Revenge
109
12
The Song of the Stars
121
32
The Song of the Stars
125
6
Fire Visitors
131
12
Extraterrestrial Beings
143
5
Communion
148
5
The Common Origin of All Humanity
153
20
Commonalities of Myth, Ritual, and Custom
153
5
Roots and Commonalities of Language
158
5
On the Family
163
5
On Banishing Fear
168
5
Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries
173
38
On Sleep and Dreaming
173
4
Prophecies
177
14
On the Sacred Rock Carvings
191
6
Science and Religion
197
5
A Path to Wisdom
202
5
The Boundaries of Human Life
207
4
Notes
211
9
Index
220