The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . Paet VI ABORIGINAL MYTHS AND TRADITIONSCONCERNING THE ISLAND OF TITICACA THE most authentic sources for aboriginal Indian tradi-tions are songs, orations, and tales, known to the mem-bers of religious or other societies of which every tribe hasat least rudiments. Such societies sometimes preserverecords from very remote times, through oral substance changes but little in the course of centuries,but form may suffer modifications which distort the origi-nal picture or even shroud it almost completely. On the Island of Titicaca the
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . Paet VI ABORIGINAL MYTHS AND TRADITIONSCONCERNING THE ISLAND OF TITICACA THE most authentic sources for aboriginal Indian tradi-tions are songs, orations, and tales, known to the mem-bers of religious or other societies of which every tribe hasat least rudiments. Such societies sometimes preserverecords from very remote times, through oral substance changes but little in the course of centuries,but form may suffer modifications which distort the origi-nal picture or even shroud it almost completely. On the Island of Titicaca the changes which its Indianpopulation has undergone, and the promiscuous origin ofthe present inhabitants, made it very doubtful if any origi-nal folklore was still to be found. Esoteric clusters exist,but they are not originally from Titicaca. Their presentmembers may have been born there, but the lore with whichthey are acquainted is not indigenous to the Island; at leastin all likelihood. Its original occupants, Inca as well asAymara, forsook
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