
Mature
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.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Spirituality and Religion
Length5 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
16Neglect of Sanitary Regulations
2Introduction
17The Sweat Bath—Bleeding—Rubbing—Bathing
3How the Formulas were Obtained
18Shamans and White Physicians
4The Swimmer Manuscript
19Medicine Dances
5The Gatigwanasti Manuscript
20Description of Symptoms
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6The Gahuni Manuscript
21The Pay of the Shaman
7The Inâli Manuscript
22Ceremonies for Gathering Plants and Preparing Medicine
8Other Manuscripts
23The Cherokee Gods and Their Abiding Places
9The Kanâheta Ani-Tsalagi Eti
24Color Symbolism
10Character of the Formulas—The Cherokee Religion
25Importance Attached to Names
11The Origin of Disease and Medicine
26Language of the Formulas
12Theory of Disease—Animals, Ghosts, Witches
27Specimen Formulas
13Selected List of Plants Used
28Medicine
14Medical Practice
29Miscellaneous Formulas
15Illustration of the Tabu