Navaho Legends: Collected and Translated

About this eBook

Compiler

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905

Title

Navaho Legends

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The music that appears in this book was transcribed in MusicXML by Linda Cantoni.

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Navajo mythology

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60165

Release Date

August 24, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. — PREFATORY REMARKS. — HOME OF THE NAVAHOES. — POPULATION. — RACIAL AFFINITY—APPEARANCE. — PORTRAITS. — CRANIA. — LANGUAGE. — HOUSES. — ARTS. — INDUSTRY. — POETRY AND MUSIC. — TRIBAL ORGANIZATION. — RELIGION. — CEREMONIES. — THE LEGENDS. — ALPHABET USED. — SPELLING OF NAVAHO. — NOTES. — SHAMANS. 16 — A LAST WORD (TO POETS AND OTHERS).
5. 5.LEGENDS. — THE NAVAHO ORIGIN LEGEND. — I. THE STORY OF THE EMERGENCE. — II. EARLY EVENTS IN THE FIFTH WORLD. — III. THE WAR GODS. — IV. GROWTH OF THE NAVAHO NATION. — NA T Ĭ′NĔS T H ANI. — THE GREAT SHELL OF KĬNTYÉL.
6. 6.NOTES. — NAVAHO MUSIC. — 273. DOVE SONG. — TEXTS AND INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS. — 274. ASSEVERATION OF TORLINO (IN PART). — 275. BEGINNING OF ORIGIN LEGEND. — 276. SONG OF ESTSÁNATLEHI. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — 277. SONG OF NAYÉNĔZGẠNI (NAYÉNĔZGẠNI BĬGĬ′N). — I. — II. — III. — IV. — 278. SONG OF NAYÉNĔZGẠNI. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — 279. SONG OF NAYÉNĔZGẠNI. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — 280. A SONG OF NAYÉNĔZGẠNI. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — 281. SONG OF THE SUN. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — 282. SONG OF THE SUN. — I. — II. — 283. SIGNIFICANT WORDS OF SONGS OF THE LOG, FIRST SET. — 284. SIGNIFICANT WORDS OF SONGS OF THE LOG, SECOND SET. — 285. WORDS OF THE EAGLE. — 286. SONG OF THE EAGLES.—A SONG OF THE BEAD CHANT. — I. — 287. SONG OF THE ASCENSION. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — 288. PRAYER OF FIRST DANCERS FROM THE CEREMONY OF THE NIGHT CHANT. — FREE TRANSLATION OF PRAYER. — REMARKS ON THE PRAYER.
7. 7.BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES.
8. 8.MELODIES 1 — No. 1. — SONG OF THE APPROACH OF THE WAR GODS. — No. 2. — SONG OF THE WAR GODS. — No. 3. — TWELFTH YIKAÍGĬN OR DAYLIGHT SONG. — No. 4. — A SONG OF THE NAAK H AÍ, OR DANCE OF THE LAST NIGHT OF THE NIGHT CHANT. — No. 5. — A SONG OF THE NAAK H AÍ. — No. 6. — SEVENTH SONG IN THE FARM OF H AST S É H O G AN. — No. 7. — TENTH AND ELEVENTH SONGS IN THE FARM OF H AST S É H O G AN. — No. 8. — FIFTEENTH SONG IN THE FARM OF H AST S É H O G AN. — No. 9. — TWENTY-SECOND SONG IN THE FARM OF H AST S É H O G AN. — No. 10. — TWENTY-THIRD SONG IN THE FARM OF H AST S É H O G AN. — No. 11. — TWENTY-FIFTH SONG IN THE FARM OF H AST S É H O G AN .
9. 9.INDEX.
10. 10.SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PUBLICATION FUND OF THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY, 1896.
11. 11.Table of Contents
12. 12.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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