Earth & sky : visions of the cosmos in Native American folklore /
Native American starlore has instructed and entertained non-natives for generations. Yet until recently the importance of this extensive body of tradition and acute observation has been ignored or viewed by non-natives simply as crude means to astronomical insight. In this edited collection, sevente...
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
©1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the animating breath / Ray A. Williamson and Claire F. Farrer
- Cosmos and poesis in the Seneca thank-you prayer / Paul Zolbrod
- The celestial skiff : an Alabama myth of the stars / Ray A. Williamson
- " ... by you they will know the directions to guide them" : stars and Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer
- Morning star, evening star : Zuni traditional stories / M. Jane Young
- Navajo earth and sky and the celestial life force / Rik Pinxten and Ingrid Van Dooren
- The Hooghan and the stars / Trudy Griffin-Pierce
- Saguaro wine, ground figures, and power mountains : investigations at Sears Point, Arizona / Tom Hoskinson
- Menil (moon) : symbolic representation of Cahuilla woman / Lowell Bean
- Racing Simloki's shadow : the Ajumawi interconnection of power, shadow, equinox and solstice / Jack M. Broughton and Floyd Buckskin
- North Pacific ethnoastronomy : Tsimshian and others / Jay Miller
- Clot-of-blood / Alice B. Kehoe
- On the necessity of sacrifice in Lakota stellar theology as seen in "the hand" constellation, and the story of "the chief who lost his arm" / Ronald Goodman
- The chief and his council : unity and authority from the stars / Von Del Chamberlain
- The conjurer's lodge : celestial narratives from Algonkian Shamans / Thor Conway
- Asking the stars : narrative indicators of Seneca hunting ceremonial / Thomas McElwain
- Epilogue : blue archaeoastronomy / Claire R. Farrer and Ray A. Williamson.