Yaqui Myths and Legends

by Ruth Warner Giddings

Overview

Sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis reflect this people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816544134
Publisher:	University of Arizona Press
Publication date:	10/01/1968
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Cultural Setting Yaqui Story Telling The Narrators Yomumuli and the Little Surem People The Ku Bird The Wise Deer Tasi'o Sewa Yuku When Badger Named the Sun Mochomo The Wax Monkey The False Beggar The Stick That Sang The Two Bears The Walking Stone Sun and Moon Five Friends of a Takochai The Man Who Became a Buzzard The Snake People Omteme Juan Sin Miedo The Boy Who Became a King Kaiman The Big Bird The Wars Against the Mexicans War Between the Yaquis and the Pimas Peace at Pitahaya Malinero'okai The First Deer Hunter The Death of Kutam Tawi The Flood and the Prophets San Pedro and Cristo Jesucristo and San Pedro Pedro de Ordimales San Pedro and the Devil Father Frog Two Little Lambs Maisoka and Hima'awikia The Cricket and the Lion Grasshopper and Cricket Turtle and Coyote Coyote and Rabbit Heron and Fox The Cat and the Monkey In Rabbit's House Coyote and the Friendly Dogs The Black Horse Duck Hunter Tesak Pascola's Watermelons The Calabazas Funeral Suawaka Topol the Clever Why the Animals Remain Animals Coyote Woman The First Fiesta Bobok The Five Mended Brothers The First Fire The Spirit Fox The Yaqui Doctor The Twins The Snake of the Hill of Nohme Tukawiru Cho'oko Baso References

Editorial Reviews

"These stories are not curiosities, dead fairy tales. . . . Yaqui Myths and Legends is the spirit of the land—the living oral tradition of a people." —Journal of Arizona History

"Forthright in character, they are often grim, sometimes humorous, occasionally pointing a moral, but primarily entertaining." —Westways

"Yaqui Myths And Legends is a compilation of sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis which reflect this Native American people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory and the antiquity and distinctiveness of their customs. These aren't obsolete fairy tales, but vibrant, living expressions of Native American oral tradition and cultural expression." —The Bookwatch

"The stories will bring as much joy to youngsters as to grownups." —The Associated Press

"Folklore for the interested layman as well as the scholar. Anyone interested in the Greater Southwest, or folklore in general, will find a use for this volume." —Ethnohistory

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