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Zuni Folk-Tales
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When the mythology of tribal men came to be studied, it was found that their philosophy was also a mythology in which the mysteries of the universe were explained in a collection of tales told by wise men, prophets, and priests. This lore of the wise among savage men is of the same origin and has the same significance as the lore of Hesiod and Homer. It is thus a mythology in the early sense of that term. But the mythology of tribal men is devoid of that glamour and witchery born of poetry; hence it seems rude and savage in comparison, for
example, with the mythology of the Odyssey, and to rank no higher as philosophic thought than the tales of the ignorant and superstitious which are called folk-lore; and gradually such mythology has come to be called folk-lore. Folk-lore is a discredited mythology--a mythology once held as a philosophy. Nowadays the tales of savage men, not being credited by civilized and enlightened men with that wisdom which is held to belong to philosophy, are called folk-lore.
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Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle Book
Publication Date: 2008-02-21
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Summary: Zuni Folk Tales
Comment: 33 tales collected by Mr. Powell between 1879 to 1884 when he was posted to the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico working as a collector for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Mr. Powell was made an honorary member of the Zuni tribe.
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