The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America: Myths and languages. 1875Appleton, 1875 - Indians Extensive anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and historical work on the Indians of the North, Central, and South Americas and, in North America, as far east as the Mississippi Valley. |
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animals Antiq Apache appear Aztec Aztek believed bird Brasseur de Bourbourg Buschmann California called Chinook Cholula Clavigero Cochimí Cora Coyote dead death deity dialects earth Ethno evil father festival fire four Geog give goddess gods guage guttural heaven Hist honor Huitzilopochtli human idioma idols Indians Kingsborough's Mex language lengua Lord Lord's Prayer Messico Mexican Mexico Mictlan Mictlantecutli Mithridates Monarq Moqui mother mountains Mutsun myth nations natives origin Orozco y Berra Otomí painted Pima Pimentel plural Pomo Popol Vuh priests pronouns Pueblos Quetzalcoatl Quiché River sacrifice Sahagun Sahaptin Schoolcraft's Arch Shoshone snake Sonora soul speak spirit spoken Sprache Spuren der Aztek stone Storia Tarahumara temple Tezcatlipoca thee thine things Thlinkeet thou Tinneh tion Tlaloc Toltecs tongue Torquemada tribes Vater verb vocabulary woman words worship Zapotec
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Page ix - a series of definite and successive changes, both of structure and composition, which take place within an individual without destroying its identity ;" by Schelling as " the tendency to individuation;" by Richeraud as "a collection of phenomena which succeed each other during a limited time in an organized body ; " and by De Blainville as " the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition, at once general and continuous.
Page 697 - H; I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z a, b, c, d, o, f, g, h, i, j, k, I, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y...
Page 482 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 27 - They had neither father nor mother, neither were they made by the ordinary agents in the work of creation ; but their coming into existence was a miracle extraordinary, wrought by the special intervention of him who is preeminently The Creator. Verily, at last, were there found men worthy of their origin and their destiny; verily, at last, did the gods look on beings who could see with their eyes, and handle with their hands, and understand with their hearts.
Page 23 - Quiches, is in its rude, strange eloquence and poetic originality, one of the rarest relics of aboriginal thought.
Page 173 - God and the true God. And yet it hath caused great admiration in me, that although they had this knowledge, yet had they no proper name for God. If wee shall seeke into the Indian tongue for a word to answer to this name of God, as in Latin, Deus, in Greeke, Theos, in Hebrew, El, in Arabike, Alia; but wee shall not finde any in the Cuscan or Mexicaine tongues. So as such as preach or write to the Indians vse our Spanish name Dios...
Page 101 - Quecholli, the citizens of Mexico and those of Tlatelolco were wont to visit a hill called Cacatepec, for they said it was their mother.35 As to the substance, arrangement, and so on of the earth and sky there remain one or two ideas not already given in connection with the general creation. The Tlascaltecs, and perhaps others of the Anahuac peoples, believed that the earth was flat, and...
Page 147 - Jewish or Christian countries. Not only was every criminal safe there, whatever his crime, but the crime was, as it were, blotted out from that moment, and the offender was at liberty to leave the sanctuary and walk about as before ; it was not lawful even to mention his crime ; all that the avenger could do was to point at him and deride him, saying : Lo, a coward, who has been forced to flee to Chinigchinich ! This flight was rendered so much a meaner thing in that it only turned the punishment...
Page 483 - In an age, therefore, when no prejudices of artificial decency existed, what more just and natural image could they find, by which to express their idea of the beneficent power of the great Creator, than that organ which endowed them with the power of procreation, and made them partakers, not only of the felicity of the Deity, but of his great characteristic attribute, that of multiplying his own image, communicating his blessings, and extending them to generations yet unborn?