George A. Dorsey - The Pawnee Mythology (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature)

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CONTENTS

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Preface 5

Introduction 7

MYTHS.
I. True Stories Op The Heavenly Beings.

1. Origin of the Chaui C* 13

2. The Four Gods in the West K 19

3. The Small-Ants Bundle and the Buffalo C 21

4. The Four Gods of the North K 28

5. Long-Tongue, the Rolling Head C 31

6. How Evening Star's Daughter was Overcome S 38

7. The Daughter of the Evening Star and her Sacred Bundle S 42

8. Contest between the Morning Star and the Moon C 42

9. Origin of the Basket Dice Game S 44

i o. The Origin of a New Band K 46

11. How the People got the Crow-Lance K 50

11. The Origin of the Pipe-Stick Ceremony S 52

13. The Girl who Married a Star K 56

14. The Grain-of-Corn Bundle S 58

15. The Meteorite People S 61

16. Buffalo-Wife and Corn-Wife S 6

17. The Poor Boy who Married the Chief's Daughter C 68

18. The Cannibal Witch and the Boy who Conquered the Buffalo K 73

19. The Warrior and the Black Lightning Arrow S 82

20. Spotted Horse; a Brave and a Chief S 86

21. The Boy who was Given Power to Call the Buffalo K 90

33. The Son of Wind, Ready-to-Give C 90

23. The Man who Called the Buffalo P 95

24. The Wonderful Boy S 95

25. The Boy who Preferred Woman to Power S 102

26. The Buffalo Gaming Sticks S 104

37. The Boy who Called the Buffalo and Went to North-Wind K 106

28. The Man who Married a Buffalo P 109

29. How the Witch-Woman was Killed K 114

30. Pursuit by a Rattling Skull; the Pleiades K 119

31. The Poor Boy and the Mud Ponies P 1*3

32. The Origin of the Buffalo Bundle K 124

33. The Last of the White Buffalo K 126

34. The Wife who Returned from Spirit Land P 126

35. How the World is to Come to an End P 134

36. The Talking Membrum Virile K 137

37. The Hermaphrodite K 138

38. The Scalped Men S 139

* The letters C, K, S, and P indicate, respectively, the Chaui Kitkehahki, Skidi, and Pitahauirat.

II. Tales Of Ready-to-give.

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39. Handsome-Boy and After-Birth Boy S 142

40. Long-Tooth Boy K 156

41. Long-Tooth Boy K 156

42. Burnt-Belly and his Dreams C 156

43. The Boy who Wore a Woodpecker Cap P 159

44. The Shooting of the Squirrel's Nose K 164

45. Origin of the Clam Shell S 167

46. The Poor Boy who Turned into an Eagle S 172

47. The Poor Boy who Lost his Power K 176

48. The Flint Man K 178

49. The Turkey Ritual K 181

50. The Boy who Turned into a Prairie Dog K 183

51. The Gambler and the Gaming Sticks C 185

52. Young Hawk Hunts for his Mother S 191

53. The Dog-Boy who Married the Chief's Daughter K 192

54. Sun-Ray who Mistreated his Wife K 194

55. Hawk Slays the Fire-Keeper K 196

56. The Singing Hawk K 199

57. The Boy who Married a Buffalo K 202

58. Buffalo Wife and the Dispersion of the Buffalo K 204

59. The Poor Boy who Wanted to get Married S 206

60. The Buffalo and Red-Spider-Woman's Daughter K 211

61. The Singing Buffalo Calf K 213

62. The Buffalo and the Deer K 214

63. The Unfaithful Bundle Keeper K 215

64. The Hungry Coyote K 216

65. The Gathering of the Priests K 217

66. The Man who Sang to Coyote K 218

67. How the Cannibal Spider-Woman was Overcome C 219

68. The Witch-Woman who Stole the Wonderful Robe K 222

69. How the Cannibal Witch-Woman was Overcome C 225

70. The Girl who Called the Buffalo K 228

71. Wood-Rat-Woman who wished to be Married S 232

72. The Witch-Woman who wished to be Married K 232

73. The Basket Game or the Woman in the Moon S 233

74. The Girl, Spider-Woman, and the Ball Game S 236

75. The Boy who Killed the Cannibal Witch K 239

76. The Witch-Woman and Her Home S 240

III. The Origin Op Medicine Ceremonies Or Power.

77. The Medicine-Child and the Beaver Medicine K 241

78. The Origin of the Loon Medicine Ceremony S 254

79. The Lightning's Medicine Ceremony K 261

80. The Stone-Man Medicine-Lodge K 279

81. The Fossil Giant Medicine-Lodge :.. P 294

82. The Squash Medicine S 296

83. Origin of the Geese Medicine S 300

84. The Wonderful Boy who Killed his Father K 304 Page

85. The Medicine-Man who Killed his Son P 308

86. The Chief's Son who Received the Animal Power K 312

87. The Thunder-Bird Ceremony K 314

88. Proud Boy and the Animal Medicine P 318

89. The Bear Medicine-Man C 330

90. The Bear Medicine S 336

91. The Bear Medicine and Ceremony S 346

92. The Buffalo Power and the Wild Horse Dance C 355

93. The Origin of the Buffalo Ceremony K 362

94. The Buffalo Medicine Dance K 369

95. The Woman and the Buffalo Dance K 370

96. The Buffalo Medicine Dance K 372

97. The Buffalo-Game Medicine C 374

98. The Lost Warrior and the Singing Buffalo Medicine K 377

99. The Buffalo Medicine War Shield S 378

100. The Man who Married a Deer S 380

101. The Deer Dance P 382

102. The Wolf-Warrior K 384

103. The Coyote and Wolf Medicine K 389

104. The Scalped-Man Medicine S 390

105. How the Pawnee got the Eagle-Dance P 394

106. The Dog Medicine K 403

107. Burnt-Belly and the Dog K 404

108. The Eagle and the Sun-Dance S 407

109. The Skeleton-Man and the Sun-Dance S 408

no. TheWomanwho was Bewitched by a Fox K 409

in. Ghost-Man who Became a Whirlwind K 410

112. The Man who Went to Spirit Land K 411

113. The Spirit Wife and the Whistle-Dance P 413

114. Handsome-Boy P 414

115. The Weeping Cedar Tree K 426

116- Big Turtle K 426

IV. Coyote Tales.

117. Coyote and the Scalped-Woman K 428

118. How a Witch-Woman was Killed by Coyote S 430

119. Coyote Marries his Daughter K 430

120. Coyote and his Two Wives Meet Wonderful Being K 432

121. Coyote Tries to Fool the Rain-Gods K 434

122. Coyote and the Priests K 434

123. Coyote who Called Himself "Dragging-the-Stone" P 435

124. Coyote-Man and his Tricks S 439

125. Coyote Takes the Pipe Sticks to the Beavers P 445

126. Coyote and the Rolling Stone K 446

127. Coyote and the Rolling Skull K 447

128. Coyote Turns into a Buffalo P 449

129. Coyote Family Run After the Buffalo K 452

130. Coyote Steals Turtle's Buffalo K 453

131. Coyote and Bear S 434

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132. Coyote and Bear S 455

133. Coyote Shows Turkey the Scalp-Offering Ceremony S 456

134. Coyote and the Dancing Turkeys S 457

135- Coyote and the Turkeys Roll Down Hill S 438