A Guide to Mythology

About this eBook

Author

Clarke, Helen A. (Helen Archibald), 1860-1926

Original Publication

United States: Doubleday, Page & Company,1908,reprint 1918.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Mythology -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67172

Release Date

January 15, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY
6. 6.CHAPTER I WHAT IS A MYTH?
7. 7.CHAPTER II ANIMALS IN PRIMITIVE MYTHS — HOW A MUSKRAT MADE THE WORLD — HOW THE KITE HELPED TO MAKE THE WORLD — HOW MAUI FISHED UP THE EARTH — THE ORIGIN OF THE ROBIN — THE ORIGIN OF THE HARE — HOW THE MOLE BECAME BLIND — THE BOY AND THE WOLVES; OR, THE BROKEN PROMISE — HOW WASBASHAS, THE SNAIL, BECAME A MAN — THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF MASTER RABBIT WITH THE OTTER AND THE WOODPECKER GIRLS ALSO A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FAMOUS CHASE, IN WHICH HE FOOLED LUSIFEE, THE WILD CAT — I. HOW MASTER RABBIT SOUGHT TO RIVAL KEEOONY, THE OTTER — II. HOW MAHTIGWESS, THE RABBIT, DINED WITH THE WOODPECKER GIRLS, AND WAS AGAIN HUMBLED BY TRYING TO RIVAL THEM. — III. RELATING HOW THE RABBIT BECAME WISE BY BEING ORIGINAL, AND OF THE TERRIBLE TRICKS WHICH HE BY MAGIC PLAYED LOUP-CERVIER. — THE STORY OF MANABOZHO — HOW GLOOSKAP MADE HIS UNCLE MIKCHICH THE TURTLE INTO A GREAT MAN, AND GOT HIM A WIFE. OF TURTLES’ EGGS, AND HOW GLOOSKAP VANQUISHED A SORCERER BY SMOKING TOBACCO. — PUNCHKIN
8. 8.CHAPTER III ANIMALS IN CULTURE MYTHS — HYMNS TO INDRA — THE FOUR APES — STORY OF THE MIDGARD SERPENT AND FENRIS THE WOLF — THE STORY OF APOLLO AND PHAËTON — THE STORY OF ODYSSEUS AND THE OXEN OF THE SUN — STORY OF ARACHNE AND ATHĒNE
9. 9.CHAPTER IV TREE AND PLANT MYTHS — YGDRASIL: THE NORSE WORLD TREE — STORY OF THE AINO WHO FELL ASLEEP AT THE FOOT OF A PINE TREE — WUNZH, THE FATHER OF INDIAN CORN — LEELINAU, THE LOST DAUGHTER — BIRTH OF THE ARBUTUS — SONG AT THE BEGINNING — FLOWER SONG — THE STORY OF ERISICHTHON — PAN AND SYRINX — POMONA AND VERTUMNUS — MYTH OF OSIRIS AND ISIS — THE DEATH OF ADONIS [4]
10. 10.CHAPTER V MYTHS OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS — THE NAVAJO STORY OF THE MAKING OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS — THE STORY OF THE CONQUERING OF THE SUN — HYMN TO THE SUN — HYMN TO SÛRYA, THE SUN — THE WORSHIP OF THE SUN, AND THE DREAM OF ONAWUTAQUTO — THE WITCH AND THE SUN’S SISTER — THE MAKING OF THE MIRROR — THE DEATH OF BALDER THE GOOD — BATTLE BETWEEN RA AND ANAPEF OR APEP IN THE UNDERWORLD — THE STORY OF PHŒBUS APOLLO — THE STORY OF ARTEMIS AND ORION — STORY OF THE CHILD AND THE STAR — OSSEO, THE SON OF THE EVENING STAR — THE WANDERING STAR — THE DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS
11. 11.CHAPTER VI MYTHS OF THE SKY AND AIR — HOW A HUNTER VISITED THE THUNDER SPIRITS WHO DWELL IN MOUNT KATAHDIN — THE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING MEN — HOW GLOOSKAP BOUND WUCHOWSEN, THE GREAT WIND-BIRD, AND MADE ALL THE WATERS IN ALL THE WORLD STAGNANT — THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF PAUP-PUK-KEEWISS — THE STORY OF ODIN’S SWORD AND SIGMUND — HOW THOR CONQUERED THE STONE GIANT HRUNGNER — HOW ZEUS CAME TO BE KING OF GODS — HYMN TO THE DAWN — THE LOVER’S VISION OF THE HAPPY ISLAND — THE MESSAGE-BEARERS — THE WAY OF THE GODS
12. 12.CHAPTER VII MOTHER-MYTHS AND CHILD-MYTHS — MALAYAN STORY OF THE SUN AND MOON — HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS — HYMN TO CIHUACOATL, THE MOTHER OF MORTALS — THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH — STORY OF DEMETER — THE STORY OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE — LEGEND OF TU-TOK-A-NU-LA — NEZHIK-E-WA-WA-SUN; OR, THE LONE LIGHTNING — WASIS, THE BABY HOW THE LORD OF MEN AND BEASTS STROVE WITH THE MIGHTY WASIS, AND WAS SHAMEFULLY DEFEATED — OJEEG ANNUNG; OR, THE SUMMER-MAKER — THE LEGEND OF MAUI — THE INFANT HERACLES — THE STORY OF THE CHILD HERMES — FOOTNOTES

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