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	Mythology
		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.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/m/my/mythology.html (903 words)

	Mythology
		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
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/my/mythology.html (830 words)

	Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word mythology (Greek: μυθολογία, from μυθος mythos, a story or legend, and λογος logos, an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity.
		In modern usage, mythology is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology) or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths.
		The word mythology is used 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mythology (2650 words)

	Indian Mythology - The Navaho Genesis
		The fourth, the Patriarchal Age, chronicles the growth of the Navaho nation in the days of its early wanderings; to this age, too, belong most of the revelations which prophets and visionaries bring back in the form of rites, acquired in their visits to the abodes of the gods.
		The lowest of the world-storeys, where the Navaho myth begins, was red in colour, and in its centre was a spring from which four streams flowed, one to each of the cardinal points, while oceans bordered the land on all sides.
		By their aid a young Navaho defeated the Gambler, and with a magic bow shot him into the sky whence he came, and whence he was sent back into the world to become the ruler of the Mexicans.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/indian-mythology-46.shtml (1653 words)

	Indian Mythology - Navaho Ritual Myths
		Navaho ceremonials are mainly of the latter kind and are in sharp contrast to the calendric rites of their Pueblo neighbours.
		He, however, used his powers to trick the Pueblo people into surrendering their wealth to him; and in a great shell which he obtained from them he was lifted by ropes of lightning up into the heavens, surrounded by his treasure." The story recalls similar ascents in the legends of northern Indians.
		Of all the ritual myths of the Navaho the most pathetic is the story of the Stricken Twins." They were children of a mortal girl by a god; and in childhood one was blinded, the other lamed.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/indian-mythology-48.shtml (645 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Mythology
		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 does not have to be so.
		An excellent example of such a mythology is that developed by J.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/my/Mythology (593 words)

	Navaho mythology: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Navaho mythology Navaho mythology The Navajo are a tribe of Native Americans...among the Navaho.
		Yolkai Estasan's sister, Estanatelhi (or Estsanatlehi[?]), was a sky goddess who was very respected among the Navaho.
		Glispa[?] invented medicine and taught it to the Navaho.
	www.encyclopedian.com /na/Navaho-mythology.html (392 words)

	Journal of American Indian Education-Arizona State University
		Without Navaho language and culture as an integral part of the curriculum, schools are seen by Navahos as foreign institutions, teaching foreign subjects and values in a foreign language and undermining the foundations of Navaho culture and social order.
		Teaching Navaho language and culture in the classroom enables Navaho children to positively identify with the schools they attend and to enthusiastically and securely pursue their academic work.
		Another major reason for teaching Navaho culture and language in the schools Navahos attend is to provide the framework and environment for Navaho children to develop a positive self-image.
	jaie.asu.edu /v7/V7S3Nav.html (1744 words)

	Mythology - Gurupedia
		Greek mythology, and Norse mythology, which were nearly extinct at one time.
		Buddhist mythology - Bon mythology (pre-Buddhist Tibetan mythology) - Chinese mythology -
		Navaho mythology - Nootka mythology - Pawnee mythology -
	www.gurupedia.com /m/my/mythology.htm (1049 words)

	APPENDIX II. The Religious Life of the Navaho
		It revealed that, besides improvised songs, in which the Navahos are adepts, they have knowledge of thousands of significant songs—or poems, as they might be called—which have been composed with care and handed down, for centuries perhaps, from teacher to pupil, from father to son, as a precious heritage, throughout the wide Navaho nation.
		Their lives, to a great extent, are reflected in the social condition of the Navaho; as, for instance, in the subordination to local headmen, in the manner of farming, hunting, ceremony, etc., all of which find an explanation in previous occurrences in the lives of the Holy Ones.
		The Wind (which in Navaho mythology is a personification), in his kindness towards the boys, gave them warning as to the treacherous acts contemplated by Yeitso, and made it possible for them to dodge the lightning bolts that he rapidly hurled at them one after another.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /inbl/back.1_div.2.html (4878 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Culture Hero
		In many cultures, particularly Native American, the mythical figure of the trickster and the culture hero are combined.
		To illustrate, Prometheus, in Greek mythology, stole fire from the gods to give it to humans.
		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.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/cu/Culture_Hero (137 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This broader truth runs deeper than the advent of critical history which may, or may not, exist as in an authoritative written form which becomes "the story" (Preliterate oral traditions may vanish as the written word becomes "the story" and the literate become "the authority").
		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.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, New Age beliefs, certain aspects of religion and so forth.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/mythology (2850 words)

	CHAPTER IV. THE NAVAHO (Continued).
		Afterwards the prophet was captured by the Utes, always at enmity with the Navahos, bound hand and foot, and sentenced by the Ute council to be whipped to death.
		Few white people, except those living in the immediate vicinity of the Navahos, have ever witnessed many of the Navaho ceremonies for the reason that as these ceremonies are primarily for the healing of the sick, no regular time for holding them is ever appointed by the priests.
		The Navaho shaman believes that to depart from the fixed order as handed down from father to son through many generations, would be to invite the enmity of the gods.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /hav7/body.1_div.4.html (6925 words)

	Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian - Uncorrected OCR Text for volume 1
		Although the mythology and ceremonials of this virile people would alone furnish material for many volumes, it is believed that even with the present comparatively brief treatment a comprehensive view of their character and activities will be gained.
		Based on the creation legends of the Navaho and on known historical events, the advent of the southern branch of this linguistic group -the Navaho and the Apache tribes- has been fixed in the general region in which they now have their home, at about the time of the discovery of America.
		Again, judging by the similarity in language, the Apache and the Navaho in prehistoric times were as nearly a single group as the present bands of Apache are; and, likewise, there is sufficient similarity in the underlying principles of their mythology to argue a common tribal origin.
	curtis.library.northwestern.edu /ocrtext.cgi?vol=1 (17089 words)

	DelennDax7's Ancient World Trivia 2002
		In Norse Mythology, Idun, goddess of eternal youth, is the custodian of the golden apples of youth.
		In Norse Mythology, in Sweden in particular, she was a cow-goddess & protectress of the king in battle.
		In Judaic Mythology, it’s a wild demon from the desert to whom the scapegoat was driven forth, but is also mentioned as the place to which the scapegoat was sent on the day of atonement.
	hometown.aol.com /delenndax7/trivia2002.html (16739 words)

	Symbology
		The Navaho associates the powder on lepidopteron wings with insanity, the drive to commit incest and the power of an aphrodisiac and the power to run fast.
		In Navaho mythology, the caterpillar of a sphinx moth has a position as a security guard, possibly because it possesses a formidable looking, though harmless, horn on its hind end.
		The Navaho Indians associate both moths and butterflies with insanity with much written about the equation of insanity and acting like a moth by jumping into the fire ('moth-crazy') which is said to result from sexual excess, breaking restrictions, and the like.
	www.angelfire.com /on2/MyFlower/sym.html (7655 words)

	Amazon.com: Navaho Legends: Books: Washington Matthews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Navaho Legends" is one of the earliest collections of Navaho oral traditions in English, and still the best.
		These richly detailed legends remain among the most complete sources of Navaho cultural, ritual, and cerimonial information.
		This edition, published by University of Utah Press, is fully faithful to the original, containing Matthews introduction, extensive notes, interlinear prayer translations, and musical notations, plus a note on modern orthography by Robert W. Young.
	www.amazon.com /Navaho-Legends-Washington-Matthews/dp/0874804248 (595 words)

	List of deities
		See also definitions of the words 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.
		Susa-No-Wo - god of storms and thunder, snakes and farming.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Dieties.html (687 words)

	Navaho Stories Home - Printable Native American Folklore & Myths
		Native American, American Indian, 10 Navaho Indian Stories from "The Order of Things" or "The Age of Animal Heroes." Here are ten stories from before the beginning to present day.
		Native American, American Indian, 22 Navaho Indian Stories from the Navaho's "Age of Gods." Including Native American Games and insights into the culture.
		Wonderful Stories from the Age of Gods that are as timeless as the stories of Hercules and Ulysses.
	www.lathe-of-heaven.com /Navaho-Stories-home.html (352 words)

	Mythology
		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.
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	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/my/mythology.html (700 words)

	Learn more about Navaho mythology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/na/navaho_mythology.html (344 words)

	Underworld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go.
		From Star Trek, Gre'thor and Fek'lhr appear in Klingon mythology.
		In the television series PRMF, the antagonists reside in a world which appears to be quite literally under the surface of the earth.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Underworld (276 words)

	Leads
		The causation of illness according to the Navaho (p.47)
		The significance of priest chanters in the Navaho healing ceremony (p.50)
		The role of the diviner in the Navaho ceremony (p.48)
	www.stu.ca /~parkhill/hhr02/leads.htm (2306 words)

	VilNet Dossiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To some degree they fit the mythology of the southwest but some contradictions remain.
		For example Coyote and Changing Woman are not, in the Navaho mythology, allies.
		The group does not cooperate smoothly but functions effectively because the individual members are very powerful, all weighing in at S2 and above on the VilNet energy production scale.
	orion.math.iastate.edu /danwell/champions/Rsons.html (362 words)

	Mythology
		Also, ask at the Reserve Desk for John Nelson's mythology titles.
		Mythology and You: Classical Mythology and its Relevance to Today's World
		Mythology and Values: An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths
	www.pvc.maricopa.edu /library/libguides/mythology.htm (231 words)

	HOROSCOPESCHAT
		Please scroll on down this page for the full listing of other mythology texts and topics....
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		America - Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians - 1
	groups.msn.com /HOROSCOPESCHAT/mythology1.msnw (344 words)

	Native American Mythology
		Written by Harry C. James, this article discusses the mythological world of the Hopi.
		The complete texts of the Dine: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians by Aileen O'Bryan in 1956.
		Sponsored by the Innu Nation, this article discusses Innu mythology.
	www.admser.mccsc.edu /~kmcglaun/mythology/indians.htm (449 words)

	MonsterSlayer (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Slayer of Monsters has a headdress of Eagle feathers and is carrying a bow.
		He is a major Yei/Deity of Navaho mythology.
		This rock art site is called Dinatah by the Navahos, meaning the Holiest Place on Earth.
	www.bigsurphoto.com.cob-web.org:8888 /MonsterSlayer2.html (126 words)

	Amazon.com: Northern elements in the Navaho mythology: Books: Franz Boas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Northern elements in the Navaho mythology (Unknown Binding)
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	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0008CC652 (341 words)

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