Creation Myths of Primitive America

Download or read book Creation Myths of Primitive America written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1898 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation myths of America form a complete system, they give a detailed and circumstantial account of the origin of this world and of all things and creatures contained in it. In this course of the various narratives which compose this myth system, an earlier world is described to us, with an order of existence and a method of conduct on which the life of primitive man in American was patterned.