Literary Aspects of North American Mythology
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In other words, what we will try to examine is whether the nature of the actor and his acts flow from the myth-content or not. Let us look at a few examples.
No one would, for instance, hesitate to identify the Haxige myth given above with the Holy One, merely because the Omaha have the duck and the buzzard where the Winnebago have the old woman (muskrat) and the hawk. It seems, rather, reasonable to suppose that the exact animal nature of these intermediaries is LITERARY ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERI...CAN MYTHOLOGY. 27 of little importance, as far as the story itself is concerned, al- though it may be of importance in studying the diffusion of versions. The fact that in these two myths the animals that act as intermediaries, although different, belong to the same type, being water animals in the one case and birds of prey in the other, indicates, in all probability, that the Omaha and Winnebago versions are rather closely related.
If, again, in identical plots the heroes are regarded as human beings until the very end of the myth, where we discover that they are really either animals or celestial objects, it does not disturb us if the explanation is clearly an after-thought.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In other words, what we will try to examine is whether the nature of the actor and his acts flow from the myth-content or not. Let us look at a few examples.
No one would, for instance, hesitate to identify the Haxige myth given above with the Holy One, merely because the Omaha have the duck and the buzzard where the Winnebago have the old woman (muskrat) and the hawk. It seems, rather, reasonable to suppose that the exact animal nature of these intermediaries is LITERARY ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERI...CAN MYTHOLOGY. 27 of little importance, as far as the story itself is concerned, al- though it may be of importance in studying the diffusion of versions. The fact that in these two myths the animals that act as intermediaries, although different, belong to the same type, being water animals in the one case and birds of prey in the other, indicates, in all probability, that the Omaha and Winnebago versions are rather closely related.
If, again, in identical plots the heroes are regarded as human beings until the very end of the myth, where we discover that they are really either animals or celestial objects, it does not disturb us if the explanation is clearly an after-thought.
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