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An analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths that shows the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. It discusses certain parallels between Navajo religious ideas and contemporary scientific cosmology.

Table of Contents
LIST OF TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART 1: BACKGROUND
1. Introduction
2. Historical Background
PART 2: THE MYTHS
3. The Underworlds
4. The Emergence and the Present World
5. Tricksters North and South
6. Two Traditions
PART 3: THE VERITIES
7. The Creation
8. Good and Evil, Order and Chaos
9. Men, Women, and Men-Women
10. Envoy
APPENDIX: CLASSIFICATION OF NAVAJO SINGS ACCORDING TO LELAND WYMAN AND CLYDE KLUCKHOHN
REFERENCES

In the Beginning

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 7/30/1998 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780520212770, 978-0520212770
    ISBN10: 0520212770
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    An analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths that shows the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. It discusses certain parallels between Navajo religious ideas and contemporary scientific cosmology.

    Table of Contents
    LIST OF TABLES
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    PART 1: BACKGROUND
    1. Introduction
    2. Historical Background
    PART 2: THE MYTHS
    3. The Underworlds
    4. The Emergence and the Present World
    5. Tricksters North and South
    6. Two Traditions
    PART 3: THE VERITIES
    7. The Creation
    8. Good and Evil, Order and Chaos
    9. Men, Women, and Men-Women
    10. Envoy
    APPENDIX: CLASSIFICATION OF NAVAJO SINGS ACCORDING TO LELAND WYMAN AND CLYDE KLUCKHOHN
    REFERENCES

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