Cherokees Shamanism
JAMES MOONEY
jan. de 2021 · FilRougeViceversa
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The sacred formulas and rituals 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.
The sacred formulas and rituals 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, w...
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James Mooney (February 10, 1861 December 22, 1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. Known as "The Indian Man," he did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains.
James Mooney (February 10, 1861 December 22, 1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. Known as "The Indian Man," he did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains.
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