Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . B|« ? 7i 3 Jti 2 1- w^ ^ ^ ^ — r— =tl^ —f ? 1 i i ii il » Jj I u li ROBERTS] ANALYSIS OF SONGS 447. IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY SECOND PARTWITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY J. N. B. HEWITT 449 CONTENTS Page Introduction , 453 Myths 464 The myth of the Earth-grasper 470 Notes to Iroquoian Cosmology 608 Onondaga text and interlinear translation 612 Dehodyatkaew6° 792 Index 821 451 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY SECOND PART WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES By J. N. B. Hewitt INTRODUCTION The accompanying text was recorded in
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . B|« ? 7i 3 Jti 2 1- w^ ^ ^ ^ — r— =tl^ —f ? 1 i i ii il » Jj I u li ROBERTS] ANALYSIS OF SONGS 447. IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY SECOND PARTWITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY J. N. B. HEWITT 449 CONTENTS Page Introduction , 453 Myths 464 The myth of the Earth-grasper 470 Notes to Iroquoian Cosmology 608 Onondaga text and interlinear translation 612 Dehodyatkaew6° 792 Index 821 451 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY SECOND PART WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES By J. N. B. Hewitt INTRODUCTION The accompanying text was recorded in 1900, on the Grand RiverReservation of the SLx Nations of the Iroquois, from the dictation ofthe Seneca Federal chief, John Arthur Gibson, who was in additiona priest of the rehgion of his ancestors. At the time the recordwas made lie had been completely blind for 26 years. Thetext wasrecorded partly by hand and partly by the typewriter. It is one ofthe longest known texts dealing with the myths of the genesis, thecosmic metamorphoses, of primitive Irocjuois thinking. Naturallythere are varying versions of the several incidents related in the text;but in the main events of the myth the seve
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