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THE CHILDHOOD OF RAVEN All versions of the myth feature Raven as a demanding child, with an indulgent grandfather who lets him p ...

The people of the northernmost region of North America traditionally lived by hunting and fishing in the cold Arctic seas. Their ...

MYTHS OF THE FAR NORTH THE SUN PERSON The spirit of the sun began life as a young woman who was abused by her brother. In deep d ...

The Taíno lived in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas in the centuries before the arrival of the European settlers in the Cari ...

GODS AND SPIRITS ATABEY The goddess Atabey was the mother of the great god Yúcahu, and like her son, she was a fertility deity. ...

Ghede was an ancient Haitian god of love, sex, and fertility. In Haitian voodoo, Ghede is the god of death, as well as the name ...

GHEDE BARON SAMEDI Baron Samedi is the most familiar aspect of the ancestral spirit, or loa, known as Baron, other incarnations ...

A number of people representing the lower classes of peasants and slaves emerged from the other two entrances to the cave. Then ...

THE INCAS Although they did not develop the wheel or a conventional system of writing, the Incas had a sophisticated civilizatio ...

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OCEANIA ...

O ceania is made up of Australia and the islands to its north and east. Spread over an enormous geographical area, these lands h ...

INTRODUCTION THE PACIFIC’S SPIRITUAL WORLD IS AS MULTICOLOURED AS ITS CORAL REEFS OR THE FLORA OF ITS COASTS, WHERE OVER A THOUS ...

investigate. The Rainbow Snake heard her coming and was at last roused from his sleep. He reared up and attacked the two women w ...

WAWILAK SISTERS The story of the two sisters – often known as the Wawilak Sisters – is told in diferent versions by the many Abo ...

around and saw that nothing else but his body was left to be used for the task of creation. So Tangaroa took his own flesh and m ...

POLYNESIAN DEITIES Tangaroa is one of the oldest Polynesian deities, and in some myths, the primary god. Many of the Polynesian ...

Acknowledgments ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their pho ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Luca Tettoni (br). DK Images: Courtesy of the Crafts Museum, New Delhi/Akhil Bakshi (tl). 102 http://www.dinodia ...

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