INDIAN MYTHS ~ Or, Legends, Traditions, And Symbols Of The Aborgines Of America Compared With Those Of Other Countries Including Hindostan, Egypt, Persia, Assyria, And China. Illustrated

Emerson, Ellen Russell

Edité par Minneapolis MN. 1965. Ross & Haines facsimile reprint of the 1884 original. Limited to 2000 copies

light brown cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. limited facsimile reprint edition. b&w frontis. xviii+671p. approximately 150 b&w illustrations. large vintage b&w foldout map in perfect condition. list of principal works and authors consulted. index. religion. mythology. ancient history. folklore. art history. cosmology. astrology. philosophy. theology. theosophy. the breath master, god of air. the four spirits of the winds. concerning the serpent. star worship. the sun. the earth and the moon. the origin of evil and its personification. the origin of man. legends of the dead. burial rites. transmigration and transformation. ceremonials, rites and symbols. pictography, symbol and song. manabozho. of animals. deities of indian rite and story. the ancestral cavern. yo~wah the great spirit ~ "By the compilation of these myths, I seek to make more evident the capacity of the Indian race for moral and intellectual culture. The oneness of origin of diverse races is not less apparent than the singleness of the origin of the rainbow light broken upon a cloud. The same orb whence fall the unshattered sunbeams upon the hill~top is also the source of the pageant of color fringing the dark mantle of the flying storm. Diversity in unity is the vesture of God, the Parent Energy of the universe. Diverse races are but the varying offspring of that ever existent Life of which the heavens are witness, whose measureless heights transcend the limits of thought. Our earth, an atom in shoreless space, is a laboratory in which tireless Divinity works with unceasing energy, kindling the fire of souls, and informing with wisdom the common dust thrown off the passing foot of man, permitting the microscopic particles to inhale that breath which is life.The human race is a product of those processes of Divine energy by which are evolved all phenomena of existence ~". N° de réf. du vendeur 4292002

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Titre : INDIAN MYTHS ~ Or, Legends, Traditions, And ...
Éditeur : Minneapolis MN. 1965. Ross & Haines facsimile reprint of the 1884 original. Limited to 2000 copies
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