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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: mythology of Mexico and Central America
    sub title: with a new afterword
  name:
    name part: Bierhorst, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Folklore.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: Discusses the mythology from Indians of various regions of Mexico and Central America, describing origins, comparing the similar tales, and presenting some of the myths themselves.
  table of contents: The Storytellers -- Central Mexico -- Oaxaca -- Southern Mesoamerica -- Northwest Mexico -- Lower Central America -- The Basic Myths -- Beginnings -- The emergence of ancestors (Aztec) -- The man of crops (Jicaque) -- Why the earth eats the dead (Bribri) -- Opossum steals fire (Mazatec) -- Destructions and New Beginnings -- The loss of the ancients (Tarahumara) -- The flood myth (Mixe) -- The seeds of humanity (Guaymi) -- The tree and the flood (Cabecar) -- The Quest for Corn -- The hidden corn (Mopan) -- Corn woman's marriage (Cora) -- The grasshoppers and the corn (Pipil) -- Sun Myths -- The sun and the fire (Huichol) -- How the sun was named (Yaqui) -- The childhood of sun and moon (Chatino) -- Sun and his brothers (Tzotzil) -- The courtship of sun and moon (Kekchi) -- Journeys to the Other World -- Thunder's apprentice (Mam) -- The dead wife (Miskito) -- The buzzard husband (Tzutujil) -- The visit to the animal master (Chinantec) -- Building mythologies -- Myths in Sequence -- Gods and the Ordering of Space -- Adventures of the Hero -- Writing History -- Myths and Nationalism.
  note: John Bierhorst.
  note: Originally published: New York : W. Morrow, ©1990.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Indian mythology
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Indian mythology
    geographic: Central America
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Mexico
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Central America
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Mexico
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Central America
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Mexico
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Central America
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie des Peuples autochtones
    geographic: Mexique
  subject:
    topic: Peuples autochtones
    geographic: Amérique centrale
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Peuples autochtones
    geographic: Mexique
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Indian mythology
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Central America
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Central America
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Mexico
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    geographic: Central America
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
  classification: F1219.3.R38 B54 2002
  classification: 398.2/08997072
  identifier: 0195146212
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 011030
    record change date: 20240808224734.4
    record identifier: in00004816602
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng