American Tribal Religions Navajo Coyote Tales: The Curly To Aheedliinii Version
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0803272227
ISBN 13
9780803272224
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1984
Publisher
Volume
8
Pages
146
Series Name
Description
Coyote is easily the most popular character in the stories of Indian tribes from Canada to Mexico. This volume contains seventeen coyote tales collected and translated by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., more than half a century ago. The original Navajo transcriptions are included, along with notes. The tales show Coyote as a warrior, a shaman, a trickster; a lecher, a thief; a sacrificial victim, and always as the indomitable force of life. He is the paradoxical hero and scamp whose adventures inspire laughter or awe, depending upon what shape he takes in a given story. In his introduction to Navajo Coyote Tales, Karl W. Luckert considers Coyote mythology in a theoretical and historical framework.
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