Spirits of blood, spirits of breath : the twinned cosmos of indigenous America /
Ancient North American cultures shared long-standing philosophical precepts, the most important of which was the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath, as it spun out fractally in pairs from serpent-eagle to dwarf-giant. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath unravels this philosophical balance using trad...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Style, and sources, and methods, oh, my!
- Grandfather God and the missionaries : totally good for nothing
- The twinned cosmos of serpents and thunderbirds
- Sweats of the living and the dead
- Visions and dreams
- Giants and dwarfs
- Terlife, resuscitation, and reincarnation
- The harmony way.