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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Contributor(s): Mooney, James (Author)

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 ISBN: 1515161129     ISBN-13: 9781515161127
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $6.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2015
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- Fiction | Classics
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.31 lbs) 96 pages
 
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The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees. The original manuscripts, now in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikw ya (Sequoyah) in 1821, and were obtained, with the explanations, either from the writers themselves or from their surviving relatives.
 
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