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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Transcriber’s Note The corrections mentioned in the Errata have been made. The corrected text is marked and the original text is shown in the popup. A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book. The following less-common characters are found in this book: ă (a with breve), ā (a with macron), ē (e with macron), ū (u with macron). If they do not display properly, please try changing your font. The Myths OF The New World A TREATISE ON THE SYMBOLISM AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE RED RACE OF AMERICA BY Daniel G. Brinton, A. M., M. D.
Memb. Hist. Soc. of Penn.; of Numismat. and Antiq. Soc. of Philada.; Corresp. Memb. Amer. Ethnolog. Soc.; author of “Notes on the Floridian Peninsula,” Etc. Owl NEW YORK LEYPOLDT & HOLT LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO. 1868 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by DANIEL G. BRINTON, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. I have written this work more for the thoughtful general reader than the antiquary. It is a study of an obscure portion of the intellectual history of our species as exemplified in one of its varieties. What are man’s earliest ideas of a soul and a God, and
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