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  Mythology article - Mythology 1942 Edith Hamilton myths religion belief What mythology? Modern - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
For the purposes of this article, therefore, we use the word "mythology" to refer to stories that, while they may or may not be strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes.
Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways.
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 Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The modern definition of mythology primarily the body of myths from a particular culture or religion, as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology.
Mythology is also the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths.
Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, New Age beliefs, certain aspects of religion and so forth.
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 Chippewa mythology - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chippewa mythology is known from oral legends passed down through the generations, such as the Atisokan[?], which were told only in winter in order to preserve their transformative powers.
The Chippewa venerated Sint Holo, a mystical, invisible, horned serpent which appeared to males who were extremely wise.
Sint Holo was venerated, in various forms, by the Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Catawba[?].
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 Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system.
Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths" and "founding myths"), natural phenomena, inexplicable cultural conventions, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
However, it is important to keep in mind that while some view the Norse and Celtic pantheons as mere fable, others hold them as a religion, though the modern versions of these beliefs usually have little to no resemblance to the originals (see Neopaganism).
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 Knowledge King - Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universe, the world's creation, natural phenomena, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
Aztec mythology - Incan mythology - Guarani mythology - Maya mythology - Olmec mythology - Toltec mythology
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 Trickster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit or human hero who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects.
In many North American Indian mythologies, the coyote spirit stole fire from the gods (or stars or sun) and is more of a trickster than a culture hero.
This is primarily because of other stories involving the coyote spirit; Prometheus was a Titan, whereas a coyote is usually seen as a jokester and prankster.
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 Native American mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Native American mythology includes a number of stories and legends that are mythological.
Native American mythology helps explain or symbolizes Native American beliefs.
Chippewa tribe of Native Americans located in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
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 TRICKSTER FACTS AND INFORMATION
In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, human hero or anthropomorphic animal who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects.
In many Native American and First Nations mythologies, the coyote (Southwestern_United_States) or raven (Pacific_Northwest and coastal British_Columbia) stole fire from the gods (stars or sun) and are more tricksters than culture heroes.
Such figures appear in Native American and First Nations mythologies, where they are said to have a two-spirit nature.
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 Ojibwa or Chippewa
Ojibwa mythology was elaborate; the chief religious and superstitious rites centered around the Medewiwin, or grand medicine society.
Chippewa warriors fought with the French against the British in the French and Indian War.
The Chippewas occupied the northern shores of Lake Huron and Lake Superior, from Georgian Bay to the Prairies and northwards to the territory of the Cree, to whom they were closely related (the boundary was the watershed where the rivers flow north into Hudson Bay).
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 Read about Chippewa mythology at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Chippewa mythology and learn about Chippewa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chippewa (also Ojibwa, Anishaabe) are a tribe of
Chippewa mythology is known from oral legends such as the
Atisokan, which are told only in winter in order to preserve their transformative powers.
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 Gods
Narratives about gods and their deeds are referred to as myths, the study of which is mythology.
The word "myth" has an overtone of fiction; so religious people commonly (although not invariably) refrain from using this term in relation to the stories about gods in which they believe themselves.
In this view, God (Allah, Brahman, Waheguru, Elohim, etc...) is not a god or deity, and the anthropomorphic mythology and iconography associated with Him is regarded as symbolism, allowing worshippers to speak and think about something which otherwise would be beyond human comprehension.
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 mytihcal information,mythical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied toat least one religion.
For the purposes of this article, therefore, we use the word "mythology" to refer to stories that, while they may or may notbe strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes.
Some critics believe that the fact that the core characters and stories of modern story cycles are not in the public domain prevents the modern story cycles from sharing severalessential aspects of mythologies.
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 Chippewa Valley Business Report
On a blustery March day, Charlie Grossklaus looks out over the Chippewa River from what is to be his office in the new RCU corporate headquarters, and thinks about the workers who have been constructing the $10 million facility.
In mythology, the Phoenix is a bird that bursts into flame, is consumed, then reborn from its own ashes.
Entering Chippewa County, the river broadens to become a force to reckon with as it completes its course through Eau Claire, Dunn and Pepin counties.
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 Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universe, the world's creation, natural phenomenon, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
Although many people think that a mythology must be old, it doesn't have to be so.
An excellent example of such a mythology is that developed by J.
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 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The park was authorized on October 21, 1970.
The park is named after the Chippewa legend of the sleeping bear.
According to the legend, an enormous forest fire on the western shore of Lake Michigan (now Wisconsin) drove a mother bear and her two cubs into the lake for shelter, determined to reach the opposite shore.
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 Trickster
In the study of mythology and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit or human who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects.
In many cultures, particularly Native American, the trickster and the culture hero are combined.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 diety   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This List of deities aims at giving information about ancient and actual deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.
See also: deva (=demigod), God, Goddess, mythology, religion, scripture.
Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in the same God, but Muslims, and to some degree Jews (see below), visualize God in strictly monotheistic terms, whereas most Christians believe that God exists as a Trinity.
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 Indian Mythology - The Frame Of The World
The ritual of the calumet defines for the Indian the frame of the world and the distribution of its indwelling powers.
The Chippewa believe that there are four "layers," or storeys, of the world above, and four of the world below.
This is probably only a reflection in the overworld and the nether world of the fourfold structure of the cosmos, since four is everywhere the Indian's sacred number.
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 Native Americans: Chippewa Indian Tribe (Ojibway First Nations, Ojibwa, Anishinabe)
Language:: The Ojibwe language--otherwise anglicized as Chippewa, Ojibwa or Ojibway and known to its own speakers as Anishinabe or Anishinaabemowin--is an Algonquian tongue spoken by 50,000 people in the northern United States and southern Canada.
The Ottawa have always been politically independent from the Ojibwe, but their language is essentially the same--speakers of all five dialects, including Ottawa, can understand each other readily.
Ojibwe and Chippewa are renderings of the same Algonquian word, "puckering," probably referring to their characteristic moccasin style.
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 Chippewa mythology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Chippewa mythology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Chippewa (also Ojibwa, Anishaabe) are a tribe of Native Americans located in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Chippewa mythology contains research on
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 List of deities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There are also lists of deities by type; see the articles death deity, household deity, lunar deity, and solar deity.
See much more complete list at Celtic mythology.
Egyptian deities are often portrayed as having animal heads in art; as an example, Anubis is often portrayed in statuary as having the body of a human, but the head of a canine.
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 Trickster
Inherent in Christian mythology is the concept of tragedy as one can fall from a rigidly defined sense of order.
Vizenor throughout his writings defers to the Chippewa trickster wenebojo who in his challenge to us to reimagine our reality balances the world with laughter (Owens 239).
The trickster was jumping from oral tradition to written stories in the middle of the renaissance of Native American writings, a time of changing consciousness reflected by postmodernism and the science of chaos.
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 Chippewa Mythology Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Paul Buffalo Biography -- Tim Roufs -- University of Minnesota Duluth
Barnouw, Victor, "Reminiscences of a Chippewa Mide Priest," Wisconsin Archaeologist, 35 (1954):4:83-112.
Chippewa Music, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology 45), pp.
Chippewa Music--II, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute, Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology 53), pp.
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 Joseph_Campbell_Mythology_Group
Myths never arise in a vacuum; they are the connective tissue of the social body which enjoys synergistic relations with dreams (private myths) and rituals (the enactment of myth).
The Center For Story and Symbol was established by Jonathan Young, assistant and archivist to Joseph Campbell.
Mystical watercolor paintings & dreamlike fiction rooted in mythology, archetypes & the divine feminine.
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 The School Network: An introduction to mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends and many other ways.
Mythology is the title of a 1942 work by Edith Hamilton detailing Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology with their sources.
All our material may be used by students in school essays and assignments.
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 The Ultimate Sint Holo - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sint Holo is a mystical, invisible, horned serpent which appeared to males who were extremely wise in the mythologies of many Native Americans.
Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, was said to have seen Sint Holo.
He may have origins in Maya mythology or Aztec mythology.
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 Chippewa. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
Chippewa, county (1,041 sq mi/2,696 sq km; 1990 pop.
Chippewa Falls; 45°04'N 91°16'W. Drained by Chippewa R. Dairying; barley, oats, soybeans, brans, alfalfa, hay; cattle, sheep, poultry.
State Park in NE; L. Wissot State Park in S center.
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 Ojibwa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
They should not be confused with the Chipewyan people.
White Earth Band, 1894]] The Ojibwa or Chippewa (also Ojibwe, Ojibway, Chippeway) are the third-largest group of Native Americans in the United States, surpassed only by Cherokee and Navajo.
The major component group of the Anishinabek, they number over 100,000 living in an area stretching across the north from Michigan to Montana.
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 SAIL Ser.2, 12.2
The Chippewa creation myth is of the earth-diver type, where muskrat brings back a few grains of earth from the waters surrounding the great turtle.
The significance of bears in the folklore, myth, and ritual of the Chippewa is reflected in the contemporary literary tradition.
In Chippewa mythology Manabozho, the trickster and messenger to humans from the gods, retires to an island, "where he still lives, accessible only rarely to some vision seeker" (Landes 25).
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