The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

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.

Author: James Mooney
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 07/20/2015
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781515161127
ISBN10: 1515161129
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics

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