All about history book of myths and legends. ( PDFDrive )

KEY CHARACTERS The characters in the tragic story of the murder of Osiris have a number of roles in other aspects of Egyptian my ...

JUDGING THE SOULS The souls of the deceased were judged at a place near the end of the journey, the Hall of the Two Truths. The ...

DEITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD Besides Osiris, Anubis, and the ferocious assessor gods, several other deities were associated with th ...

The spider Ananse is a trickster and also a culture hero in West Africa, especially among the Ashanti people of Ghana. Besides h ...

ANANSE MASTER OF STORIES Nyame owned all the stories in the world. Ananse wanted to buy the stories from him, and as payment, Ny ...

The story of Mwindo is a traditional epic of the Nyanga people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been passed down ...

MWINDO IN THE UNDERWORLD After Mwindo escaped from the drum in which Shemwindo had trapped him, he vowed to return home and figh ...

THE MAN OF PEACE The Bushongo were a warlike people, skilled in the use of weapons. But Shamba hated violence and killing, and w ...

THE CULTURE HERO’S GIFTS Shamba was credited with introducing a number of skills into the lives of his people that later proved ...

Dorobo. The messenger told him to go home and build a fence around his hut, then kill and skin a wild animal, and put the meat i ...

CATTLE AND THE MASAI The Masai believed they had been entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding all the world’s cattle. ...

Part of a group often known as “bushmen”, the San are a hunting people who live mainly in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. T ...

MYTHS OF THE SAN / HLAKANYANA A trickster figure belonging to myths of the Xhosa and Zulu peoples of South Africa, Hlakanyana wa ...

SOUTHERN AFRICA THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE There was once a severe shortage of water in the jungle, so all the animals (except fo ...

SOUTHERN AFRICAN FOLK TALES THE EGG CHILD One day, a girl who was out plucking leaves with her friends found an egg that belonge ...

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I t is thought that people first came to the Americas over a narrow land bridge that connected Siberia with Alaska before sea le ...

INTRODUCTION WE WILL BE KNOWN FOREVER BY THE TRACKS THAT WE LEAVE. Dakota proverb Further south, in the area known historically ...

RAVEN REBORN With Raven inside her body, the sky chief’s daughter became pregnant. When Raven was born as a human child, he had ...