Indian Myths

Priest of Secotan (illustration, full page), description, 268. — Records have
a two-fold meaning, 268. — Name description of the thing; examples;
Holophrastic word, 269.-Terms for Indian race, winter, and sun,
270.-System of signs, 270.- Effort at inculcating moral principle,
271.- A War Song in Pictography, 271. — Another war song, 272. -
Death Song, 273. - Me-zen-ne-neens, 274. - An Incantation, 275.
Pictography on dwelling-houses, 276.- Chant of Na-na-bush, 276.
Message in Pictography, 277.—Beads and shells used to convey mes-
sages, 277.- Indian manner of counting, and names of Numbers,
278.- Word for Growth, 278.- Nursery Songs, 270.- Names of
birds, insects, fishes, trees, plants, and animals, 280-283.—Similitude
of pictographic and hieroglyphic devices and emblems, illustrated, 284–
316.-Fifteen southern constellations suggested as a commentary upon
the first chapter of Genesis, 316.-The Indian's Hare-God and Lepus;
Nimrod and Manabozho, 316.- Emblems traceable among the starry
hieroglyphics; used among the Assyrians; constant occurrence in an-

cient sculpture, 317. — Sabianism, 318.-Composite figures in Seal of

Syrian Chief, 318. — Indian composite figure, 319.- Devices on Baby-

lonian cylinder, 319. - Chant and picture, 320.—The mystic syllable,

321.-Invocation, 322. —Language a testimony to the Indian's con-

ception of a Supreme Deity, 322.-Mounds (illustrations), 326–330.—

The pentagon, representative of the head; Rite of sacrifice, 331.- Mat-

rimonial and Festival mounds, 332.- Coiled Serpent, and Composite

Mounds, 333, 334.

CHAPTER XIV.

MANABOZHO, 336-371.

Symbols, their meaning, 336.- Human form 337.-Legend, 337, 338.-

Universal tradition, myth, and prophecy of a Redeemer, 339-342.

Wigwam tales of the Exploits of Manabozho; Composite figure of

the Deity, 343-346,- Legend, 346-349.-The Haytien Tradition of a

Deluge, 349.-Strife with Serpents; Hindoo myth; illustration, full

page, 350.-The Deluge; Chant of the Lenni-Lenape in pictography,

351-354.- Paraphrase, 355. — Assyrian tradition and cylinder, 356.

The Gift of Corn; or Mondamin, the Red Plume, 357, 358. - Feast of
Mondamin, 359.—Legends, 359–367.- Hindoo god Narayana, full page
illustration; compared with Indian myth, 367.-Elf arrows, 367.- The
Great Hare; crowned symbol; Osiris, 368.-Association of ideas dis-
closed in Indian words, 369.- Suggestions as to the origin of the use
of the hare as an emblem, 869, 370. Statements in Jesuit Relations,
370, 371.

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CHAPTER XV.

ON ANIMALS, 372-423.

Extracts from an Indian historian, 372-376.- Indian, Persian, and Egyp-

tian accounts of the creation, 376, 377.-Law of correspondence between

form and attribute illustrated by Indian composite figure, 878.- Use

of a mystical name in chant, preparatory to a bear hunt, 379.- The

sacred Che-mahn-duk and Ursa Major, 379-385.-Complex character

of devices, Indian and Assyrian, 385, 386. —Legend of Oannes, 386,

387.-Chaldean and Indian legends, 388, 389.—Babylonian tablets and

Indian myths, 389.- Lament of Izdubar, 390.- Animals believed to

have had the power of speech; Story of the trees, 391.-An animal

endowed with reason, 392.-Manabozho and Oannes, 392.- Assyrian

vessel and Indian medicine sack; sack shown in cylinder, 393. - The

creation; Chant in pictography, 394-397.- Paraphrase, 397.- Por-

tions of the Old Testament: expurgated form of an ancient Scripture,

398.-Fragment of Creation-tablets in cuneiform inscriptions, 398, 399.

— Legend of Creation from Cutha tablets, 399. — Extract from the Iro-

quois Book of Rites.-Extract from the Tablet of the Wicked Gods or

Spirits, 400.-Certain matters relative to animals, 401.- Legends,

402-404.-Superstitions in relation to the dog, 404-406.-The Dog-

Sacrifice of the Senecas, 407.-Fables, 409-418.-A similar custom
and symbol. The Image Stones, 418.- Legends, tradition, and fable,
419-423.

CHAPTER XVI.

DEITIES OF INDIAN RITE AND STORY, 424-445.

Symbol, its meaning, 424. — Electric currents. Assyrian Cylinder, 425. —

Gods and fairies, 426-430.-Legend of an Indian dryad, 431. - Iagoo

and other Manittos, 432-436.- Giants; a Legend, 436-439.- Alle-

gories, 439-443.-The sky a partition; the Mundane Egg, 443–445.

CHAPTER XVII.

MISCELLANEOUS LEGENDS, 446-489.

Symbols, their meaning in sacred rite and song, 446.-Original language,

referring directly to the action or state of things, 447.- Superstition

concerning the eye, 448.-Legend, rite, belief, tradition, and allegory,

450-452.-Song of the Okogies, 453.-Red pipe-stone; Tradition;

Dreams and Omens, 454, 455.—Symbolical colors; Indian, Egyptian,

Hindoo, Jewish; Hindoo Legends, 455-458.-Obscure passage in the

Iroquois Book of Rites, 458-460.-Wigwam legend of Hiawatha, 458-

465.-Quotation from Longfellow; the Indian Hymn, 466. — Regard

for women, 467.- Atotarho, 468, 469.-Greeting to Strangers, 470.—

Myths of the Yosemite Valley, 470-473.—Indian names of prominent

points of interest in the Valley, 474. Council of the bears, 474.- Tra-

ditional saying. Yokut Death-Chant. The Weeping-Dance, 475.-

Legend, 476-481.-Sayings of the California Indians. Destruction of

the Earth, 481-488.- Traditional sayings, 488, 489.

CHAPTER XVIII.

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS, 490-613.

Statement regarding government and tribal policy, 490, 491.-Spirit of re-
venge checked, 492. —A privileged class among the Natchez, 493.-
Propositions containing the functions and attributes of an Indian tribe,
493-495.-Speech of a Mohawk orator at Condoling Council, 495-499. —
Place and purposes and acts of the Council of the Confederacy, 499, 500.