HAWM 1:2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt

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Historical Atlas of World Mythology:
Volume 1: The Way of the Animal Powers
Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Art as Revelation

• Paleolithic Rock Paintings
• The Second Art: Rock Sculpture
• The Mythic and Mystical Modes of Religious Art

MYTHOLOGIES OF THE GREAT HUNT

The Great West-to-East Dispersal

• Map 30: [Domains treated in this chapter]
• The Migration of X-Ray Style Art
• Map 31: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
• Myths of the Australian "Dream Time"
• Map 32: Australian Provinces of Aboriginal Myth and Art
• Map 33: The Diffusion of Bisexual Mythic Beings and Powers
• Circumpolar Cults of the Master Bear
• Map 34: Periods and Provinces of the Circumpolar Bear Cult
• The Bear Sacrifice
• Shamanic Lore of Siberia and the Americas
• Map 35: Tierra del Fuego
• Map 36: The Aleut-Eskimo Domain
• Map 37: The Eurasian Shamanic Domain
• Map 38: The Ritualistic Permanent Sex Change
• The Siberians
• Myths and Tales of the North Pacific and Arctic
• Folktales of the Maritime and Reindeer Koryak
• Grass Woman's Abduction and Rescue
• When Raven Man Swallowed the Sun
• Glutton, The Cannibal Giant
• How Universe the Supreme Being Makes Rain
• Map 39: The Arctic Province
• Eskimo Tales
• When the Earth was Made
• Sun Sister and Moon Brother
• The Old Woman, Sedna, of the Sea
• The Fox Wife
• The Wild Goose Wife
• The Raven Who Wanted a Wife
• In the Beginning: Two Tales
• Four Raven Episodes from the American North Pacific Coast
• He Whose Voice is Obeyed
• The Greater and the Lesser Raven
• Raven Becomes Voracious
• Raven Steals Light from Heaven
• The First Kwakiutl Totem Pole
• The Great Kwakiutl Shaman Named Fool

North American Twilight of the Paleolithic Great Hunt

• The Ideas and Names of God
• Map 40: [Summary map]
• Map 41: American Culture Areas and Culture Currents
• Map 42: Culture Areas of North America
• Mythologies of the North Pacific Coast
• Landscape and Culture
• Map 43: Indians of the North Pacific Coast
• Cosmology
• The Mythological Trickster
• The Woodland Indians
• The Iroquois and Algonquians
• The Muskogean Creek
• Prehistoric Societies in the American Midwest
• Map 44: Adena Sites
• Map 45: Hopewell Sites
• Map 46: Mississippian Sites
• The Rocky Mountain Medicine Wheels
• Map 47: Known North American Medicine Wheels
• The Plains Indians
• The Sun Dance
• The Mandan Okipa Festival
• The Ghost Dance
• Myths and Tales of the Northern Plains
• Three Blackfoot Medicine Legends
• The Buffalo's Wife
• Scarface
• The Sand Hills
• Two Creation Myths
• Trickster Tales
• The Eye Juggler
• The Sun's Leggings
• The Buffalo Hoarder
• The Fire-Bed Game and Trickster Tricked
• The Fire Theft
• Three Coyote Tales of the Winnebago
• Big Turtle's War Party
• Mythologies of the North American Southwest
• The Emergence
• Where the Two Came to their Father
• Map 48: Navaho Country
• Not Man Apart
• Cultural Geography
• Map 49: Cultural Geography of the Pre-Columbian Americas
• At the Uttermost Part of the Earth
• Myths of the Selk'nam of Tierra del Fuego
• How the Ancestors Came to Be
• How the Old Were Given New Life
• How the Sky Was Raised
• Kwanyip, the First Herdsman
• Kwanyip and Chenuke: a Shaman Contest
• How Kwanyip Separated Night from Day
• Kwanyip and Chaskals, the Cannibal
• How Kwanyip Caused the Dead to Rise No More
• When the Women Ruled
• Foundation of the Men's Secret House
• Map 50: Indians of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego: c.1900
• Myths of the Yamana of Tierra del Fuego
• The Older and the Younger Sun Man
• The Flood
• The Culture Bringers
• The Invention of Fire
• Bird Hunting
• The Sea-Lion Hunt
• The Invention of the Harpoon Point
• The First Menstruation
• The First Childbirth
• Death is Introduced
• The Sea-Lion Husband
• The Ascension

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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