Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians / First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56

by John Wesley Powell

INDEX

• Algonkian myth, [27].
• Ancientism defined, [33], [39].
• Cĭn-aú-äv brothers, a Shoshoni myth, [44], [45].
• Devilism defined, [32].
• Diversity of language, [28].
• Echo, Origin of; a Shoshoni myth, [45]-[47].
• Ecstasism defined, [36].
• Falling Star (myth), [27].
• Fetichism, The term, defined, [32], [41].
• Gatschet, A.S., Linguistic and general researches among the Klamaths, [19].
• Genesis of philosophy, [19].
• Hecastotheism, The term, defined, [30], [32].
• Kaibabit myth, [28].
• Language, Diversity of, [28].
• Monotheism defined, [30], [32].
• Moon, Indian explanation of, [24];
  • myth, [25].
• Myth, Bain (Hindoo), [27];
  • Falling stars (Ute), [27];
  • Migration of birds (Algonkian), [27];
  • Moon (Ute), [25];
  • Norse, [26];
  • Oraibi, [25], [27];
  • Rain (Shoshoni), [26], [27];
  • Rainbow (Shoshoni), [27];
  • Sun (Ute), [24].
• Mythic tales, [43]-[56];
  • Cĭn-aú-äv brothers, [44], [45];
  • Origin of, [37];
  • Origin of the echo, [45]-[47];
  • The so'-kûs wai'-ûn-äts, [47]-[51];
  • Ta-wots has a fight with the sun, [52], [56].
• Mythologic philosophy, Course of evolution of, [38]-[43];
  • Devilism, [32];
  • Fetichism, [32], [41];
  • Four stages of, [29], [33];
  • Hecastotheism, [30], [32];
  • Monotheism, [30], [32];
  • Outgrowth from, [33], [38];
  • Physitheism, [30], [32];
  • Psychotheism, [30], [32];
  • Zoötheism, [30], [32].
• Mythology, Indian, [19]-[56].
• Myths, language, Hebrew, [28];
  • Kaibabit, [28].
• Norse rain myth, [26].
• Oraibi myth, [27].
• Philosophy, Genesis of, [19];
  • Mythologic, Ancientism, [33];
  • Course of evolution of, [38]-[43].
• Philosophy, Mythologic, Ecstasism, [36];
  • Mythic tales, [37];
  • Monotheism, [42];
  • Outgrowth from, [33]-[38];
  • Physitheism, [42];
  • Psychotheism, [42];
  • Religion, [37], [38];
  • Spiritism, [35], [36];
  • Thaumaturgics, [37];
  • Theistic society, [35];
  • Tutelarism, [41];
  • Zoötheism, [38], [39], [40];
  • of civilization, [21];
  • Of savagery, [21];
  • Stages of, [21].
• Physitheism defined, [30], [32].
• Picture writing, Central American, [25].
• Psychotheism defined, [30], [32].
• Rain myth, Hindoo, [27];
  • Oraibi, [26];
  • Shoshone, [26], [27].
• Rainbow myth (Shoshoni), [27].
• Religion, Origin of, [37], [38].
• Shoshone myth, [26], [27].
• So'-kûs Wai'-ûn-äts a Shoshoni myth, [47]-[51].
• Spiritism defined, [35], [36].
• Sun, Indian explanation of, [24];
  • moon, star myth (Oraibi), [25];
  • myth (Ute), [24].
• Ta-vwots' fights the sun; a Shoshoni myth, [52]-[56].
• Thaumaturgics, [37].
• Theistic society defined, [35].
• Tutelarism defined, [41].
• Ute myth, [23], 24, [27].
• Wind, Greek idea of, [24];
  • Indian explanation of, [23];
  • Norse idea of, [24].
• Zoötheism defined, [30]-[32].