The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Illustrated EditionBy James Mooney
Length5h 7m
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.
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GenreHistory, Spirituality and Religion
Length5 hrs 7 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
2Introduction
3How the Formulas were Obtained
4The Swimmer Manuscript
5The Gatigwanasti Manuscript
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6The Gahuni Manuscript
7The Inâli Manuscript
8Other Manuscripts
9The Kanâheta Ani-Tsalagi Eti
10Character of the Formulas—The Cherokee Religion
11The Origin of Disease and Medicine
12Theory of Disease—Animals, Ghosts, Witches
13Selected List of Plants Used
14Medical Practice
15Illustration of the Tabu
16Neglect of Sanitary Regulations
17The Sweat Bath—Bleeding—Rubbing—Bathing
18Shamans and White Physicians
19Medicine Dances
20Description of Symptoms
21The Pay of the Shaman
22Ceremonies for Gathering Plants and Preparing Medicine
23The Cherokee Gods and Their Abiding Places
24Color Symbolism
25Importance Attached to Names
26Language of the Formulas
27Specimen Formulas
28Medicine
29Miscellaneous Formulas
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