HAWM 2:3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas

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Historical Atlas of World Mythology:
Volume 2: The Way of the Seeded Earth
Part 3: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Agricultural Developments in the Mesoamerican Matrix

• Map 26: The Mesoamerican Agricultural Matrix
• The Tide of History
• The Olmec Enigma
• Map 27: The Olmec World
• Map 28: La Venta

 

Agricultural Rites and Myths of Middle America

• Southwestern North America
• The Desert Cultures
• Map 29: The Desert Cultures
• The Kiva
• Map 30: Chaco Canyon
• Cycles of the Sun and Moon
• Map 31: Ancient Roadways in the North American Southwest
• The Spirits of Life
• Northwest Mexico: The Huichol
• Map 32: Huichol Lands
• The Land and Fruit of Eternal Life
• Brother Deer and Mother Maize
• The Story of Our Roots
• Map 33: The American Voyages of Christopher Columbus
• A New World Discovered and Divided
• From the Journal of Christopher Columbus
• The Papal Bull "Inter Cetera"
• The Antilles
• Map 34: The Early Inhabitants of the Antilles: Languages and Distribution
• The Taino
• The Exploits of the Four Twins of One Birth
• The Arawak
• The Carib

South American Agricultural Rites and Myths

• Map 35: Culture Areas of South America
• The South American Rain Forest
• Watunna: A Cariban Creation Cycle from the Upper Orinoco
• Map 36: The Orinoco River Valley
• Cycle of the First Emanation
• Cycle of the Second Emanation
• Cycle of the Third Emanation
• Cycle of the Twin Heroes
• The End of the Mythological Age
• Map 37: South American Rain Forest Tribes
• The Desana Creation Myth
• Map 38: Northwest Amazonia
• The Sun Father's Intention
• The Maternal Snake Canoe
• The Daughter of the Sun
• The Coming of Night
• Supernaturals
• The First Maloca
• The Daughter of the Aracu Fish
• The Great Flood
• The First Death
• Origin of the Yage Vine and Coca Plant
• The Hallucinogenic Voyage
• Sun Priest (Kumu) and Shaman (Paye)
• The Animal Master: His Malocas in the Hills
• The Yurupari Cult
• Where Sacred Things Are Seen
• The Pacific Coast
• Map 39: Ancient Cultures of the South American
• Pacific Coast
• Valdivia (Ecuador) and the Old Pacific Culture
• Map 40: Distribution of Varied Types of Sailing Crafts
• Map 41: Pacific Ocean Currents and Small Craft Journeys
• Ecuador As the American Formative Matrix
• The Civilization and Despoliation of Peru
• Map 42: Royal Roads of the Incas
• Map 43: The Southern Americas: Languages and Distribution

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[I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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