Record details

• ISBN: 0688026478
• ISBN: 9780688026479
• ISBN: 0688016995
• ISBN: 9780688016999
• Physical Description: 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st Quill ed.
• Publisher: New York : Quill, 1984.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185).

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Birth and infancy -- Mother's prayer for a girl / Navajo -- Magic spell for a difficult birth / Arekuna -- Song to the child / West Greenland Eskimo -- Song to a son / Kwakiutl -- Prayer of a man to twin children / Kwakiutl -- Prayer of the midwife to the goddess of water / Aztec -- Introduction to life / Iglulik Eskimo -- Woman's prayer to the sun, for a newborn girl / Hopi -- When the child is named / Tewa -- Lullaby / Kiowa -- Cradlesong / Mbya -- Cradlesong for Ahuitzotl / Aztec -- Lullaby / Creek -- Words to a sick child / Iglulik Eskimo -- II. Growing up -- Prayer of the youngest daughter, with an offering of crumbs / Zuni -- Prayer of an old man at a young man's change of name / Arapaho -- Prayer / Sioux -- Young man's prayer to the spirits / Crow -- For young men growing up, to help themselves / Cherokee -- A prayer of the girls' puberty ceremony / Jicarilla Apache -- A song of the girls' puberty ceremony / White Mountain Apache -- A song of the girls' puberty ceremony / Mescalero Apache -- Prayer / Paviotso -- From a prayer summoning the novice for his initiaion / Zuni -- From a prayer for the novice at the close of his initiation / Zuni -- Initiation songs / Chippewa -- III. Love songs and love magic -- The dream / Ammassalik Eskimo -- Magic spell for finding a woman / Aztec -- Dance song / Quechua -- Woman's prayer / Anambe -- Man's song / Chippewa -- Magic spell to turn a woman's heart / Arekuna -- To fix the affections / Cherokee -- For putting a woman's family to sleep / Cherokee -- Song / Inca -- Keeping a fly / Quechua -- Man's song / Kwakiutl -- Woman's song / Chippewa -- Clear river / Quechua -- Song / Quechua -- IV. For the traveler -- Life song / Flathead -- Traveler's prayer, with an offering of copal / Kekchi Maya -- Prayer to the sun, for quick travel / Aztec -- To make the road seem short / Cherokee -- Prayer for safe passage through enemy country / Zuni -- Salt pilgrimage / Papago -- Songs of the horse society / Sioux -- It starts toward me / Navajo -- V. Against sickness and evil -- To blow away a headache / Uitoto -- For chest pain / Aztec -- To cure epilepsy / Tzotzil Maya -- From a prayer of the shooting chant / Navajo -- Confession of sin / Aztec -- Prayer to the migratory birds / Kwakiutl -- Magic words to the gull / Netsilik Eskimo -- A song of the coyoteway / Navajo -- Dream songs / Modoc -- Medicine man's prayer / Blackfeet -- I am the medicine / Mazatec -- Medicine songs / Sioux -- Morning prayer to the creator / Mbya -- VI. Controlling the weather -- To quiet a raging storm / Copper Eskimo -- Magic spell for an approaching storm / Arekuna -- This is to frighten a storm / Cherokee -- Girl's prayer to thunder during a storm / Blackfeet -- Song for smooth waters / Haida -- Boatman's prayer for smooth waters / Kwakiutl -- Prayer for smooth waters / Yahgan -- Song / Nootka -- Weather incantation / Iglulik Eskimo -- Song for calling rain / Kwakiutl -- Thunder song / Navajo -- Special request for the children of mother corn / Zuni -- VII. Planting and gathering -- Song / Cagaba -- Prayer before felling to clear a cornfield / Kekchi Maya -- Prayer / Arikara -- A song of the corn dance / Papago -- Songs of the corn dance / Seneca -- To keep animals out of the cornfield / Aztec -- Harvester's prayer, with an offering of copal / Kekchi Maya -- Prayer to the corn mothers / Tewa -- Prayer before eating / Arapaho -- Prayer before the first meal in a new summer camp / Modoc -- Prayer to the sun / Havasupai -- VIII. For the hunter -- Offering to deceased hunters / Zuni -- A song of the buffalo dance / Pawnee -- A song of the buffalo dance / Sioux -- A song of the buffalo dance / Omaha -- Prayer to the black bear / Kwakiutl -- Words to call up game / Iglulik Eskimo -- Prayer to the whale / Nootka -- For subduing a walrus / Ammassalik Eskimo -- Eagle song / Papago -- Prayer before killing an eagle / Yokuts -- Before butchering the deer / Papago -- Prayer to a dead buck / Navajo -- A prayer of the midwinter hunt / Zuni -- IX. For the dying and the dead -- Song / Tlingit -- Chief's song / Tsimshian -- Song of farewell to the deceased / Quechua -- Crazy-dog prayer / Crow -- Crazy-dog song / Kiowa -- A widow's lament / Aztec -- Song of a ghost / Wintu -- Song of two ghosts / Omaha -- Prayer to the ghost / Winnebago -- Prayer to the deceased / Aztec -- Prayer to the deceased / Tewa -- Prayer to the deceased / Omaha.

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