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Folk Literature of the Guajiro Indians (UCLA Latin American Studies) (2 Volumes) by Johannes Wilbert, 1987-02 Folk Literature of the Mataco Indians (Ucla Latin American Studies ; V. 52) Havasupai Legends: Religion and Mythology of the Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon by Robert C Euler, 2002-01-09 American Indian Mythology by Alice and Rachlin, Carol Marriott, 1968 American Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott, 1972-01-01 Mythology in American Education by Harold H. Punke, 1981-04 The Iliad, The Odyssey, and All Of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less by Jay Hopkins, John Hunter, 2008-09-29 USES OF MYTHOLOGY IN ELIZ (Garland Publications in American and English Literature) by Beilin, 1988-09-01 American Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies) Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century by Donald L. Parman, 1994-10-01 Ute Tales (University of Utah Publications in the American West, Vol 29) by Anne Smith, 1992-07-30 A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution by Robert Harvey, 2002-05-22 German-American Folklore (American Folklore Series) Pueblo Gods and Myths (Civilization of the American Indian) by Hamilton A. Tyler, 1984-09

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101. Aztec Myth - Native American Myths
     Humanities Aztec Myth Created by player thejazzkickazz.  
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102. Columbus In American History
     Christopher Columbus, as a hero and symbol of the first order in America,is an important figure in this pantheon of american myth.  
     http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/COLUMBUS/col3.html
     
     Extractions: "We arouse and arrange our memories to suit our psychic needs." Michael Kammen America's national memory is filled with icons and symbols, avatars of deeply held, yet imperfectly understood, beliefs. The role of history in the iconography of the United States is pervasive, yet the facts behind the fiction are somehow lost in an amorphous haze of patriotism and perceived national identity. Christopher Columbus, as a hero and symbol of the first order in America, is an important figure in this pantheon of American myth. His status, not unlike most American icons, is representative not of his own accomplishments, but the self-perception of the society which raised him to his pedestal in the American gallery of heroism. This gallery was not in place at the birth of the political nation. America, as a young republic, found itself immediately in the middle of an identity crisis. Having effected a violent separation from England and its cultural and political icons, America was left without historyor heroes. Michael Kammen, in his Mystic Chords of Memory explains that "repudiation of the past left Americans of the young republic without a firm foundation on which to base a shared sense of their social selves." (65) A new national story was needed, yet the Revolutionary leaders, obvious choices for mythical transformation, were loath to be raised to their pedestals. "Even though every nation needs a mythic explanation of its own creation, that process was paradoxically elaborated by the reluctance of Revolutionary statesmen to have their story told prematurely." (Kammen, 27) To be raised above others would be undemocratic, they believed. The human need to explain origins, to create self-identity through national identity, was thwarted by this reluctance. A vacuum was created, and was slowly filled with the image of Christopher Columbus.

103. Myth - America
     Browse Categories Atlas and PlacesAncient Greece GreekAncient Rome - RomansANEEgypt Persia Israel Biographies / PeopleMythology ReligionLanguages Latin  
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104. The Turtle
     Turtle. Protection. Many tribal creation stories say that earth wasborn on the back of Turtle. Since it carries its home on its back  
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     Extractions: Many tribal creation stories say that earth was born on the back of Turtle. Since it carries its home on its back, it has also been recognized as having the ability to "manage" in difficult circumstances. Some folk tales say that if a turtle is flipped over, it cannot right itself and will eventually die. This however is not necessarily true, the strong neck muscles that Turtle possesses can flip Turtle upright. Turtle has good hearing and can sense movement in the water through the membranes in the skin. Turtle even has a sense of smell and pretty good eyesight, reminding us not to judge any of our relations by outward appearances. Long ago the rabbit and the terrapin had a race. They had a long way to go and each hoped to win. They crossed valleys and high hills, and at the top of the each hill a new terrapin started. That's the way they did throughout the entire race. (There was only one rabbit, but there were many terrapins - a different one who started at the top of each hilltop.) Therefore the rabbit was left behind. So the terrapin won the race. That's all. The Terrapin and the Deer wanted to have a race. The terrapin said, "I am going to wear a white corn-shuck on my head." So he gathered his friends and told them that they were to station themselves at the top of each hill over which the race was to be run. So at each hilltop sat a terrapin exactly like the others. When they (the terrapin and the deer) started the race, they went downhill and uphill, and at the top sat the terrapin. When they went down in the valley again, then up the hill, there sat the terrapin who had arrived there already. Then when he went down and up the third time, there sat the terrapin already. The terrapin won the race, they say. He used his friends with corn-shucks just like he had and placed them at intervals. That's all.

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