The Supernatural Among the Omaha Tribe of Indians

ISBN: 9781333784515 出版年：2016 页码：22 Alice Cunningham Fletcher Forgotten Books

The myths seem to indicate a linking together of all forms of life throughout nature. The various animals are endowed with speech, and address each other by terms of relationship, and are so addressed by man. The beaver, eagle. And others are called grandfather or grandmother, the titles of respect; but in the various myths these terms are not always applied to the same animal.