Native American Myths & Tales - Epic Tales(Pevná vazba)

The mythology and folk tales of the native, indigenous and First Nation tribes are many and varied, ranging from those of the Iroquois in the Northeast, and the Blackfoot and Cheyenne of the Great Plains, to the Cherokee of the Southeast, and the Navajo and Apache of the Southwest, among countless more. Though they retain distinctive identities, the tribes shared a deep-seated respect for Nature, its cycles, bounty and dangers, each of which reverberates through tales that abound with the symbolism of flora and fauna, the elements and the heavenly bodies. This new selection of myths offers a broad insight into the nature and lifestyle of the ancestral lands of the Native American tribes that once stretched from the tip of Alaska, down to the Bay of Mexico. Hundreds of languages, with traditions and folkore, grew independently across the continent, flourishing in deserts, mountains
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