Cherokee Mythology
Cherokee Mythology: The Complete Guide to the Uktena, the Spirits, and the Sacred Stories
The Uktena, the Spirits, and the Sacred Stories
The sacred stories of the Cherokee: how the world was made on the back of a water beetle, the horned serpent Uktena and its blazing crystal, the Little People who live inside the mountains, and the medicine that holds it all together. Recorded from the elders before it could be lost.
$14.99
Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the recorded oral tradition
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The People of the Mountains
- 02How the World Was Made
- 03The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
- 04The First Fire and the Animals Who Brought It
- 05Why the Animals and People No Longer Speak
- 06The Uktena and the Ulunsuti Crystal
- 07The Little People and the Nunnehi
- 08Spearfinger, the Raven Mocker, and the Dangers
- 09The Origin of Disease and Medicine
- 10Kanati and Selu: The Hunter and the Corn Mother
- 11The Sacred Formulas and the Keepers of the Stories
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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