Native American Mythology Archive
Ancient Places
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Navajo People - tough and brave people - have a deep relationship with the Holy Ones, who came from the sky. It is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is something special and fascinating about Kokopelli, the Native American trickster god. Known under various names among several Native American tribes and sometimes
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - You’re driving. It’s late and dark. The road is desolated, and you are eager to get home, but suddenly you see a strange,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The concept of the soul is fascinating. Despite many attempts, no-one can really tell you with certainty what the soul is and what
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – She is long gone, but the Cherokee have kept the legend of Spearfinger alive. She was an ancient, evil witch who used her
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like all other Native American tribes, the Iroquois have a myth that explains why there is both good and evil in this world.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Iroquois have an interesting legend about a horrifying flying that terrorized people for no apparent reason. This was no ordinary head of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Native American legend of the salt witch and her deadly encounter with a chief tells how Nebraska’s great Salt Basin was formed.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Often called a freak of nature, Okefenokee is as strange as beautiful. Many years ago, one scientist interested in Okefenokee said there is
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - In Cherokee beliefs, the Sun and Moon, the ancient world and the first man and woman were all created by a number of
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - There are many interesting and dangerous creatures in Cherokee mythology. One of them is the raven mocker and another one is the body
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - The Cherokee used the spirits of their ancestors as talismans of protection against harm. After the home was smoked, dirt from the family
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - We used crystals as part of our way of life. Once, every Cherokee kept one. Wrapped in deerskin and hidden. It was their
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - For the Navajo and other tribes of the Southwest, the tales of skinwalkers are not a mere legend. Many are convinced these evil creatures
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Among native Americans, the Apotamkin is a dangerous sea creature that lurks along the coast of Passamaquoddy Bay between the U.S. state of Maine
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Ancient Places
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Devil’s Tramping Ground in North Carolina is a mysterious place that many still avoid. Curious people who dared to visit this place report
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pamola is a snow bird spirit in mythology of Abenaki (Penobscot), indigenous peoples in the northeastern United States and Eastern Canada. In ancient beliefs of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located near Conway, New Hampshire, North America, Mount Chocorua is one of the world’s most stunning mountains and a frequent target for photographers who
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Do you believe a race of little people once walked the Earth? Myths and legends of our ancestors tell beings of small statue lived
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Among the Native Americans there are many fascinating myths describing how life merged on our planet. One very beautiful myth tells about a remarkable
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like many other Native American teachings, the Seven Fires Prophecy comes with a powerful message to future generations. It tells us that we are
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like many other characters encountered in Native American mythology, Heyoka teaches us valuable life-lessons. Heyoka is a quite entertaining figure and everything this creature
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient folklore of the Seminole Indians of Oklahoma in the United States, there is a vampire-like creature called a stikini (“man owl”). Likewise,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like many other mythological tricksters, Iktomi finds himself in constant trouble. He is very destructive, mostly to himself. Iktomi likes to play games
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Ancient Places
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mount Roraima is located on a high plateau at the junction of Brazil, Venezuela and Guyan. There are researchers who say Mount Roraima is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Native Americans have many very intriguing stories about beings who they encountered. These creatures are often very unusual in their appearance and they mostly
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Algonquian folklore, the Pukwudgies are magical little forest people. They are grey-faced humanoid creatures with large-ears and only knee-high or smaller. They can
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Thalia Lightbringer - AncientPages.com - The Cherokee have many wonderful legends. Some of the most interesting stories involve people who looked just like normal Cherokee, but were apparently
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Hopi await the return of Pahana, their lost white brother who will he will come back dressed in red and bring with him
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cedar is considered the most sacred tree in Native American beliefs. It was the first tree planted by man in the Third World
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Depictions of the mysterious giant Piasa bird can be found on a limestone bluff overlooking the Mississippi. Native American legends tell this creature
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Cherokee recall a white-skinned race that lived on their lands before they arrived. This group of very unusual beings were known as the
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The horned serpent is a very interesting creature, not only because we known relatively little about it, but because it appears in ancient stories
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Native Americans of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and Arapaho have a rich oral tradition that tells of a race of tiny people, commonly known
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast have a very complex structure of kinship, which is demonstrated in a great variety of the
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