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The Myths of the New World / A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America — Daniel G. Brinton

The Myths of the New World / A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

Daniel G. Brinton

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 231 pages

A collection of essays and a nineteenth-century treatise on the symbolism and mythology of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Daniel G. Brinton explores early ideas of the soul, God, creation, flood, and the afterlife as expressed in myth and symbol. It offers a window into nineteenth-century comparative mythology and ethnographic thought.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. PREFACE.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. THE MYTHS OF THE NEW WORLD.
  4. CHAPTER I.
  5. CHAPTER II.
  6. CHAPTER III.
  7. CHAPTER IV.
  8. CHAPTER V.
  9. CHAPTER VI.
  10. CHAPTER VII.
  11. CHAPTER VIII.
  12. CHAPTER IX.
  13. CHAPTER X.
  14. CHAPTER XI.
  15. INDEX.
  16. ERRATA.
  17. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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