The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 3, Myths and Languages: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3

· 1918

Difference between Man and Brutes -- Mind-Language and Soul-Language -- Origin of Language: A Gift of the Creator, a Human Invention, or an Evolution -- Nature and Value of Myth -- Origin of Myth: The Divine Idea, a Fiction of Sorcery, the Creation of a Designing Priesthood -- Origin of Worship, of Prayer, of Sacrifice -- Fetichism and the Origin of Animal-Worship -- Religion and Mythology 1 Quiché Creation-Myth -- Aztec Origin-Myths -- The Papagos -- Montezuma and the Coyote -- The Moquis -- The Great Spider's Web of the Pimas -- Navajo and Pueblo Creations -- Origin of Clear Lake and Lake Tahoe -- Chareya of the Cahrocs -- Mount Shasta, the Wigwam of the Great Spirit -- Idaho Springs and …

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