Daniel Garrison Brinton

Library of Aboriginal American Literature ...

This comprehensive work compiles a brief history of the Lenape people along with their legends, literature, language and various historical sketches of the people native to the Delaware region.

With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walam Olum, a New Translation, and an Inquiry Into Its Authenticity

The Lenâpé and Their Legends

The Maya Chronicles

The basis of social relations, ed. by L. Farrand

The Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths, Central America

Ethnologic and Archaeologic. Mythology and Folk Lore. Graphic Systems and Literature. Linguistic

Essays of an Americanist

Thomas Davidson

2 Addresses

Giordano Bruno, Philosopher and Martyr

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Philosopher and Martyr

Giordano Bruno

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A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

The Myths of the New World

The Myths of the New World: a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

Albert Samuel Gatschet

Horatio Hale

Library of Aboriginal American Literature

Marcus Benjamin

A Library of Universal Knowledge; Comprising a General Encyclopedia of Literature, History, Art, Science, Invention and Discovery; a Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language; a Gazetteer of the World; a Comprehensive Dictionary of Universal Biography, Etc. with Nearly Four Thoudand Illustrations

The American Educator

From the preface: "This little volume is a contribution to the comparative study of religions. It is an endeavor to present in a critically correct light some of the fundamental conceptions which are found in the native beliefs of the tribes of America. So little has heretofore been done in this field that it has yielded a very scanty harvest for purposes of general study. It has not yet even passed the stage where the distinction between myth and tradition has been recognized. Nearly all historians continue to write about some of the American hero-gods as if they had been chiefs of tribes at some undetermined epoch, and the effort to trace the migrations and affiliations of nations by similarities in such stories is of almost daily occurrence. How baseless and misleading all such arguments must be, it is one of my objects to set forth. At the same time I have endeavored to be temperate in applying the interpretations of mythologists. I am aware of the risk one runs in looking at every legend as a light or storm myth. My guiding principle has been that when the same, and that a very extraordinary, story is told by several tribes wholly apart in language and location, then the probabilities are enormous that it is not a legend but a myth, and must be explained as such. It is a spontaneous production of the mind, not a reminiscence of an historic event. The importance of the study of myths has been abundantly shown of recent years, and the methods of analyzing them have been established with satisfactory clearness. The time has long since passed, at least among thinking men, when the religious legends of the lower races were looked upon as trivial fables, or as the inventions of the Father of Lies. They are neither the one nor the other. They express, in image and incident, the opinions of these races on the mightiest topics of human thought, on the origin and destiny of man, his motives for duty and his grounds of hope, and the source, history and fate of all external nature. Certainly the sincere expressions on these subjects of even humble members of the human race deserve our most respectful heed, and it may be that we shall discover in their crude or coarse narrations gleams of a mental light which their proud Aryan brothers have been long in coming to, or have not yet reached. The prejudice against all the lower faiths inspired by the claim of Christianity to a monopoly of religious truth--a claim nowise set up by its founder--has led to extreme injustice toward the so-called heathen religions. Little effort has been made to distinguish between their good and evil tendencies, or even to understand them. I do not know of a single instance on this continent of a thorough and intelligent study of a native religion made by a Protestant missionary."

A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent

American Hero-Myths

Charles Smith Morris

Amos Emerson Dolbear

Walam Olum

This 1882 volume contains the?prophetic and historic records of the Mayas of Yucatan.

The Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan

The Books of Chilan Balam

Daniel Garrison Brinton

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