- Native American Indian Myths
- "In ages past our old ones were the storytellers. This was the way things were passed along to the generations that followed. For this reason the aged people made it a point to remember every detail so they could relate it at a later time. They were the word and picture carriers making history and spirtual values alive and important. In recent times we have made our old ones think they are not so important. We spoof their stories and make them feel foolish. The truth is that we are ignorant of what is precious and how to 'a da li he li tse di -- appreciate age. Rigidity can creep in and set even the young mind if there are no soft memories no laughter no times too deep for tears. Age is grace -- a time too valuable to waste.""
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- The Prayer of a Navajo Shaman
- Navajo gods and other supernatural powers are many and varied. Most important among them are a group of anthropomorphic deities and especially Changing Woman or Spider Woman the consort of the Sun God and her twin sons the Monster Slayers. Other supernatural powers include animal bird and reptile spirits and natural phenomena or wind weather light and darkness celestial bodies and monsters
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- Navajo Legends
- The Navajo people also referred to as the Diné live primarily in Arizona and New Mexico and remain an active Native American tribe. The Navajo reservation is the largest in the country. The Navajo people have a rich history and like many Native American tribes have passed down many legends and myths from generation to generation.
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- Hopi Indians
- The Hopi people originate from the northeastern part of Arizona in a region known as the Black Mesa. The Black Mesa consists of a flat-topped hill upon which the Hopi pueblos were built. One of the Hopi pueblos called Oraibi was first settled in 1050. Their language is complex and most closely resembles that of the Aztecs. In the Hopi language the name of their tribe means good wise or peaceful.
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- The Legends of the Iroquois
- The Iroquois League has also been known as the Iroquois Confederacy. Some modern scholars distinguish between the League and the Confederacy. According to this interpretation the Iroquois League refers to the ceremonial and cultural institution embodied in the Grand Council while the Iroquois Confederacy was the decentralized political and diplomatic entity that emerged in response to European colonization. The League still exists. The Confederacy dissolved after the defeat of the British and allied Iroquois nations in the American Revolutionary War.
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- On Shamanism
- To the uninitiated and inexperienced the wind is the wind a rock a rock and tree is just a source of lumber or shade; water is for drinking and washing animals are fleshed-covered bones and humans are flesh blood thoughts and feelings.
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- Learn About the Healing Art of Traditional Native American Healing Methods
- A lot of healing practices and spiritual ceremonials that are being practiced nowadays by healing practitioners and metaphysical groups have been acquired from traditions that initiated from assorted Native American tribes.
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- LECTURES ON TH E ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF RELIGION AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE NATIVE RELIGIONS OF MEXICO AND PERU
- Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the native religions of Mexico and Peru.
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- THE MOUNTAIN CHANT: A NAVAJO CEREMONY
- The ceremony of dsilyídje qaçàl, or mountain chant-literally, chant towards (a place) within the mountains-is one of a large number practiced by the shamans, or medicine men, of the Navajo tribe. I have selected it as the first of those to be described, because I have witnessed it the most frequently, because it is the most interesting to the Caucasian spectator, and because it is the best known to the whites who visit and reside in and around the Navajo country.
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- The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
- The Midewiwin (also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) or the Grand Medicine Society is a secretive religion of the aboriginal groups of the Maritimes, New England and Great Lakes regions in North America. Its practitioners are called Midew and the practices of Midewiwin referred to as Mide. Occasionally, male Midew are called Midewinini, which sometimes is translated into English as "medicine man"
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- Unwritten Literature of Hawaii
- The people were superstitiously religious; one finds their drama saturated with religious feeling, hedged about with tabu, loaded down with prayer and sacrifice. They were poetical; nature was full of voices for their ears; their thoughts came to them as images; nature was to them an allegory; all this found expression in their dramatic art. They were musical; their drama must needs be cast in forms to suit their ideas of rhythm, of melody, and of poetic harmony. They were, moreover, the children of passion, sensuous, worshipful of whatever lends itself to pleasure. How, then, could the dramatic efforts of this primitive people, still in the bonds of animalism, escape the note of passion?
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- Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts
- Maya mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles. Other parts of Maya oral tradition (such as animal tales and many moralising stories) do not properly belong to the domain of mythology, but rather to legend and folk tale
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- Rig Veda Americanus
- In accordance with the general object of this series of volumes—which is to furnish materials for study rather than to offer completed studies—I have prepared for this number the text of the most ancient authentic record of American religious lore. From its antiquity and character, I have ventured to call this little collection the Rig Veda Americanus, after the similar cyclus of sacred hymns, which are the most venerable product of the Aryan mind.
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- Intro to Shamanism
- The ancient shamanic traditions that originated many cycles of life ago found their beginnings in what the Hopi call the First World. In October 2007, when cosmic space collapsed, we entered into the fifth world. The shamanism practiced by indigenous peoples of all races on Earth today, pales by comparison to what once was. Having forfeited its inclusiveness that benefits the interconnectedness of all life in favor of exclusiveness which benefits only a few, it also disem-powered itself.
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- American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
This little volume is a contribution to the comparative study of religions. It is an endeavor to present in a critically correct light some of the fundamental conceptions which are found in the native beliefs of the tribes of America. So little has heretofore been done in this field that it has yielded a very scanty harvest for purposes of general study. It has not yet even passed the stage where the distinction between myth and tradition has been recognized. Nearly all historians continue to write about some of the American hero-gods as if they had been chiefs of tribes at some undetermined epoch, and the effort to trace the migrations and affiliations of nations by similarities in such stories is of almost daily occurrence. How baseless and misleading all such arguments must be, it is one of my objects to set forth.- $1.99 USD
- The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
- By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of this people, this bulletin proposes to show that an intimate connection exists between their ritual acts, their moral standards, their social organization, even their practical activities of today, and their myths and tales--the still unwritten legendary lore.
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- Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
- This reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices.
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- The Archaeology of Shamanism
- In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism. Following an intial orientation reviewing shamanism as an anthropological construct, the volume focuses on the Northern hemisphere with case studies from Greenland to Nepal, Siberia to Kazakhstan.
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