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American Indian myths and legends / selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394507967
- ISBN: 9780394507965
- ISBN: 0394740181 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780394740188 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1984.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Series statement from jacket. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 522-525) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Folklore. Indian mythology > North America. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0. | ‡aAmerican Indian myths and legends / ‡cselected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. |
| 250 | . | ‡a1st edition | |
| 260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bPantheon Books, ‡cc1984. | |
| 300 | . | ‡axv, 527 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c24 cm. | |
| 440 | 0. | ‡aPantheon fairy tale & folklore library | |
| 500 | . | ‡aSeries statement from jacket. | |
| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 522-525) and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aRabbit 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. |
| 520 | . | ‡aIndian (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. | |
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| 650 | 0. | ‡aIndian mythology ‡zNorth America. | |
| 700 | 1 | . | ‡aErdoes, Richard, ‡d1912-2008. |
| 700 | 1 | . | ‡aOrtiz, Alfonso, ‡d1939-1997. |
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