American Indian myths and legends /
selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
- First edition
- xv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library .
Series statement from jacket
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
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
0394507967 9780394507965 0394740181 9780394740188
C93-6869-6
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Folklore Indian mythology--North America Indians of North America--Legends Indians of North America--Religion and mythology