Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth - The Hohokam Chronicles

"As definitive a work as we are likely to get on Pima-Papago mythology."—William Bright, author of A Coyote Reader

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

0 PRELUDE, THE FONT TEXT
1 GENESIS
2 THE FLOOD
3 NEW CREATION AND CORN
4 THE WHORE
5 ORIGIN OF WINE AND IRRIGATION
6 MORNING GREEN CHIEF AND THE WITCH
7 FEATHER BRAIDED CHIEF AND THE GAMBLER
8 SIUUHU'S DEATH AND RESURRECTI0N
9 THE C0NQUEST UNTIL BUZARD
10 THE C0NQUEST UNTIL SIWAN WA'AKI
11 AFTER THE CONQUEST

Conclusion: Mythologies
Appendix: Correlation of Conquests
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Donald Bahr is Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University and author of Pima-Papago Ritual Oratory (1975) and Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (1974).

Summary

In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. This work comprises thirty-six separate stories. It begins with the creation of the universe out of the void and ends with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages.

Additional text

"While fascinating enough as an account of Pima mythology, the collection is even more compelling because much of the mythology it recounts concerns the Hohokam Indians, ancestors of the Pima whose culture disappeared around 1450 -- hence the subtitle, The Hohokam Chronicles."

Product details

• Authors: William Smith Allison, Allison William Smith, Donald Bahr, Donald M. Bahr, Donald M. Smith Bahr, Donald Smith Bahr, Julian Hayden, Hayden Julian, Juan Smith, Smith Juan
• Assisted by: William Smith Allison (Editor), Juan Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1994
• EAN: 9780520084681
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08468-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Oral History, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, North America, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Folklore, myths & legends, Alternative belief systems, Relating to indigenous peoples, North America (USA and Canada), Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)