
Mature
Length5h 6m
About this audiobook
The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees. The original manuscripts, now in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikwâ´ya (Sequoyah) in 1821, and were obtained, with the explanations, either from the writers themselves or from their surviving relatives.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length5 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
15Neglect of Sanitary Regulations
2How the Formulas were Obtained
16The Sweat Bath—Bleeding—Rubbing—Bathing
3The Swimmer Manuscript
17Shamans and White Physicians
4The Gatigwanasti Manuscript
18Medicine Dances
5The Gahuni Manuscript
19Description of Symptoms
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6The Inâli Manuscript
20The Pay of the Shaman
7Other Manuscripts
21Ceremonies for Gathering Plants and Preparing Medicine
8The Kanâheta Ani-Tsalagi Eti
22The Cherokee Gods and Their Abiding Places
9Character of the Formulas—The Cherokee Religion
23Color Symbolism
10The Origin of Disease and Medicine
24Importance Attached to Names
11Theory of Disease—Animals, Ghosts, Witches
25Language of the Formulas
12Selected List of Plants Used
26Specimen Formulas
13Medical Practice
27Medicine
14Illustration of the Tabu
28Miscellaneous Formulas