American Indian myths and legends

✍ Scribed by Richard Erdoes; Alfonso Ortiz

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 728
• Series: Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.
Abstract: 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