The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth : The Hohokam Chronicles / Donald Bahr [and three others].

Author
Bahr, Donald M. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]
  • ©1994
Description
1 online resource (343 p. ) ill. ;

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Summary note
In 1935 two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Front matter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART 0. PRELUDE, THE FONT TEXT
  • PART 1. GENESIS
  • PART 2. THE FLOOD
  • PART 3. NEW CREATION AND CORN
  • PART 4. THE WHORE
  • PART 5. ORIGIN OF WINE AND IRRIGATION
  • PART 6. MORNING GREEN CHIEF AND THE WITCH
  • PART 7. FEATHER BRAIDED CHIEF AND THE GAMBLER
  • PART 8. SIUUHU'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION
  • PART 9. THE CONQUEST UNTIL BUZZARD
  • PART 10. THE CONQUEST UNTIL SIWAŇ WA'AKI
  • PART 11. AFTER THE CONQUEST
  • CONCLUSION MYTHOLOGIES
  • Appendix: Correlation of Conquests
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
Other title(s)
Hohokam chronicles.
ISBN
  • 0-520-91456-2
  • 0-585-36501-6
OCLC
1149478097
Doi
  • 10.1525/9780520914568
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