 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1883 - 896 pages
...their aid in transforming what was once commonplace or purely ideal into a concrete myth. The natives of this continent had many myths, and among them there was one which was very prominent. It is that of a national hero, their mythical civilizer and teacher of the tribe, who,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1884 - 892 pages
...their aid in transforming what was once commonplace or purely ideal into a concrete myth. The natives of this continent had many myths, and among them there was one which was very prominent. It is that of a national hero, their mythical civilizer and teacher of the tribe, who,... | |
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The native tribes of this continent had many myths, and among them there was one which was so prominent and recurred with such strangely similar features in localities widely asunder, that it has for years attracted my attention, and I have been led to... 