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Includes the spiritual world of the Indians, the ceremonies, the sacred objects, Christianity, and more. Full description
Table of Contents:
- The Indian world. the first Americans
- A tapestry of peoples
- Sacred places
- Earthdivers and creators. Earthdivers
- Of seasons, seals and cereals
- From darkness to light
- The search for home
- The Great Spirit
- The origin of the sun, moon and stars
- The details of the universe
- The peopling of the earth
- How old age and death began
- Myth and art
- The spiritual cosmos. "The earth is my mother"
- The circle of heaven
- Watery realms
- The sun, moon and stars
- Spirits of nature
- Thunder, lightning, fire and rainbow
- The society of animals
- Animal souls and the afterlife
- Soul theory and spirit flight
- The next life
- Keepers of order. tricksters, the unpredictable spirits
- Raven and hare
- Coyote, a sly wild dog
- Heroes of myth and history
- Demons and monsters
- Sacred and terrifying creatures
- Humans and animals
- Animal spouses and guardians
- The vulnerability of animals
- On the warpath
- Totems and clans
- Northwest Coast societies
- A web of ceremony. Shamans and medicine
- Soul flights, dreams and vision quests
- Sacred societies
- Hunting ceremonies
- The sun dance
- Revivals and cults
- The alien eye
- The Native American legacy.