Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . nt a mode of repre-senting sounds as that of Nineveh and Babylon, there may be found in the presentactive state of ethnological researches, some traces even in the ancient ruins of Ame-rica. It is not traces of the comparatively recent and polished periods of Roman andGrecian history, that we should look for here, but rather of those more ancient stocksof th
Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . nt a mode of repre-senting sounds as that of Nineveh and Babylon, there may be found in the presentactive state of ethnological researches, some traces even in the ancient ruins of Ame-rica. It is not traces of the comparatively recent and polished periods of Roman andGrecian history, that we should look for here, but rather of those more ancient stocksof the human race from the Euphrates and Tigris, who have probably reached ourshores, through India, Tartary, China, or Japan. Australia and the islands of theIndian and Pacific oceans, had no symbols for sounds. They have thus far formedbarren fields of research on this topic. While thus contemplating, through the most recent researches in the valleyof the Euphrates, the state of the superstitions and magic reliances of one ofthe most ancient stocks of the human race, we present, as suitable addenda to theseremarks, the following descriptions of the state of demon worship, in relation to one ofthe leading stocks of our American :4Tl!|Mfv
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