Creation myths and legends of the Creek Indians /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126558 |
Table of Contents:
- Beliefs and ritual: Role of mythology
- Cosmogony
- Creek cosmology
- Souls
- Spiritual specialists
- Miscellaneous beliefs
- Sacred plants or medicines
- Sacred time and space
- Ceremony and ritual
- Conclusions
- Myths and legends: Earth diver myths
- Emergence myths
- Migration legends
- Relationships between the tribes
- Journeys into the sky world
- Visitors from the sky world
- Snake man legends
- Man-eating birds
- Tobacco and corn; sacred plants to the Creeks
- Contemporary Creek myths and legends.