What is included with this book?
Preface | p. v |
A Note on Pronunciation | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Storytellers | |
Central Mexico | p. 19 |
Oaxaca | p. 29 |
Southern Mesoamerica | p. 36 |
Northwest Mexico | p. 47 |
Lower Central America | p. 54 |
The Basic Myths | |
Beginnings | |
The emergence of ancestors (Aztec) | p. 67 |
The man of crops (Jicaque) | p. 68 |
Why the earth eats the dead (Bribri) | p. 74 |
Opossum steals fire (Mazatec) | p. 77 |
Destructions and New Beginnings | |
The loss of the ancients (Tarahumara) | p. 79 |
The flood myth (Mixe) | p. 80 |
The seeds of humanity (Guaymi) | p. 84 |
The tree and the flood (Cabecar) | p. 84 |
The Quest for Corn | |
The hidden corn (Mopan) | p. 86 |
Corn woman's marriage (Cora) | p. 90 |
The grasshoppers and the corn (Pipil) | p. 98 |
Sun Myths | |
The sun and the fire (Huichol) | p. 100 |
How the sun was named (Yaqui) | p. 101 |
The childhood of sun and moon (Chatino) | p. 102 |
Sun and his brothers (Tzotzil) | p. 110 |
The courtship of sun and moon (Kekchi) | p. 112 |
Journeys to the Other World | |
Thunder's apprentice (Mam) | p. 116 |
The dead wife (Miskito) | p. 117 |
The buzzard husband (Tzutujil) | p. 120 |
The visit to the animal master (Chinantec) | p. 123 |
Building mythologies | |
Myths in Sequence | p. 129 |
Gods and the Ordering of Space | p. 143 |
Adventures of the Hero | p. 158 |
Writing History | p. 174 |
Myths and Nationalism | p. 188 |
Afterword | p. 208 |
Glossary of Special Terms | p. 215 |
Notes on Sources | p. 217 |
References | p. 230 |
Index | p. 244 |
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