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American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
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by Daniel G. Brinton 16 Jan, 2019
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This little volume is a contribution to the comparative study of religions. It is an endeavor to present in a critically correct light some of the fundamental conceptions which are found in the native beliefs of the tribes of America. So little has h ... Read more
This little volume is a contribution to the comparative study of religions. It is an endeavor to present in a critically correct light some of the fundamental conceptions which are found in the native beliefs of the tribes of America. So little has heretofore been done in this field that it has yielded a very scanty harvest for purposes of general study. It has not yet even passed the stage where the distinction between myth and tradition has been recognized. Nearly all historians continue to write about some of the American hero-gods as if they had been chiefs of tribes at some undetermined epoch, and the effort to trace the migrations and affiliations of nations by similarities in such stories is of almost daily occurrence. How baseless and misleading all such arguments must be, it is one of my objects to set forth. Less
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Daniel G. Brinton
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Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899), was an American M.D. and surgeon in the Union army; became professor of ethnology and archaeology in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1884; and w...
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