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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Spirituality and Religion

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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Illustrated EditionBy James Mooney

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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

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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.

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GenreSpirituality and Religion

Length5 hrs 6 mins

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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

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