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Table of Contents
Art as Revelation
-Paleolithic Rock Paintings
-The Second Art: Rock Sculpture
-The Mythic and Mystical Modes of Religious Art
MYTHOLOGIES OF THE GREAT HUNT
The Great West-to-East Dispersal
................Map 30: [Domains treated in this chapter]
-The Migration of X-Ray Style Art
................Map 31: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
-Myths of the Australian "Dream Time"
................Map 32: Australian Provinces of Aboriginal Myth and Art
................Map 33: The Diffusion of Bisexual Mythic Beings and Powers
-Circumpolar Cults of the Master Bear
................Map 34: Periods and Provinces of the Circumpolar Bear Cult
-The Bear Sacrifice
-Shamanic Lore of Siberia and the Americas
................Map 35: Tierra del Fuego
................Map 36: The Aleut-Eskimo Domain
................Map 37: The Eurasian Shamanic Domain
................Map 38: The Ritualistic Permanent Sex Change
-The Siberians
-Myths and Tales of the North Pacific and Arctic
..........-Folktales of the Maritime and Reindeer Koryak
................-Grass Woman's Abduction and
Rescue
................-When Raven Man Swallowed the
Sun
................-Glutton, The Cannibal
Giant
................-How Universe the Supreme Being Makes Rain
................Map 39: The Arctic Province
..........-Eskimo Tales
................-When the Earth was
Made
................-Sun Sister and Moon
Brother
................-The Old Woman, Sedna, of the
Sea
................-The Fox Wife
................-The Wild Goose
Wife
................-The Raven Who Wanted a
Wife
................-In the Beginning: Two Tales
..........-Four Raven Episodes from the American North Pacific Coast
................-He Whose Voice is
Obeyed
................-The Greater and the
Lesser Raven
................-Raven Becomes
Voracious
................-Raven Steals Light from Heaven
..........-The First Kwakiutl Totem Pole
..........-The Great Kwakiutl Shaman Named Fool
North American Twilight of the Paleolithic Great Hunt
-The Ideas and Names of God
................Map 40: [Summary map]
................Map 41: American Culture Areas and Culture Currents
................Map 42: Culture Areas of North America
-Mythologies of the North Pacific Coast
..........-Landscape and Culture
................Map 43: Indians of the North Pacific Coast
..........-Cosmology
..........-The Mythological Trickster
-The Woodland Indians
..........-The Iroquois and Algonquians
..........-The Muskogean Creek
-Prehistoric Societies in the American Midwest
................Map 44: Adena Sites
................Map 45: Hopewell Sites
................Map 46: Mississippian Sites
-The Rocky Mountain Medicine Wheels
................Map 47: Known North American Medicine Wheels
-The Plains Indians
..........-The Sun Dance
..........-The Mandan Okipa Festival
..........-The Ghost Dance
-Myths and Tales of the Northern Plains
..........-Three Blackfoot Medicine Legends
................-The Buffalo's
Wife
................-Scarface
................-The Sand Hills
..........-Two Creation Myths
..........-Trickster Tales
................-The Eye Juggler
................-The Sun's
Leggings
................-The Buffalo
Hoarder
................-The Fire-Bed Game and
Trickster Tricked
................-The Fire Theft
................-Three Coyote Tales of the
Winnebago
................-Big Turtle's War
Party
-Mythologies of the North American Southwest
..........-The Emergence
..........-Where the Two Came to their Father
................Map 48: Navaho Country
-Not Man Apart
-Cultural Geography
................Map 49: Cultural Geography of the Pre-Columbian Americas
-At the Uttermost Part of the Earth
..........-Myths of the Selk'nam of Tierra del Fuego
................-How the Ancestors Came to
Be
................-How the Old Were Given New
Life
................-How the Sky Was
Raised
................-Kwanyip, the First
Herdsman
................-Kwanyip and Chenuke: a Shaman
Contest
................-How Kwanyip Separated Night from
Day
................-Kwanyip and
Chaskals, the Cannibal
................-How Kwanyip Caused the
Dead to Rise No More
................-When the Women
Ruled
................-Foundation of the Men's Secret House
................Map 50: Indians of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego: c.1900
..........-Myths of the Yamana of Tierra del Fuego
................-The Older and the Younger Sun
Man
................-The Flood
................-The Culture
Bringers
................-The Invention of
Fire
................-Bird Hunting
................-The Sea-Lion
Hunt
................-The Invention of the Harpoon
Point
................-The First
Menstruation
................-The First
Childbirth
................-Death is
Introduced
................-The Sea-Lion
Husband
................-The Ascension

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