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The myths of creation after an epic flood or ocean, the Earth Diver, and the Coyote as ancestor and trickster compare to Central and Northern California mythemes of Yokuts mythology, Ohlone mythology and Pomo mythology. The myths of "First People" dying out to be replaced with the Miwok people is a "deeply impressed conception" shared by ...
[9] [6] [16] [12] [15] In a Shasta myth, Coyote saves the world from ten evil moons which have afflicted it with everlasting winter. [11] [15] In a Miwok myth, Coyote creates all animals, then calls them to a council to discuss the creation of human beings. Each animal wants people to be imbued with its own best qualities, causing an argument.
Boys will undergo an official initiation into the tribe by participating in ceremonies that recount the tribes' mysteries and myths. [30] [31] See also: Earth-maker myth; Kuksu – a religion in Northern California practiced by members within several Indigenous peoples of California. Miwok mythology – a North American tribe in Northern ...
Indian Myths of South Central California by Alfred L. Kroeber (1907) The Dawn of the World by C. Hart Merriam (1910) Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912) Miwok Myths by Edward W. Gifford (1917) The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite by Herbert Earl Wilson (1922) The North American Indian by ...
Lake Miwok traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Lake Miwok people of Clear Lake in the North Coast Range of northwestern California. Lake Miwok oral literature shows similarities to that of the Pomo and other neighboring groups in the North Coast region.
Yokuts traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Yokuts people of the San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra Nevada foothills of central California. Yokuts narratives constitute one of the most abundantly documented oral literatures in the state.
Coast Miwok mythology and narratives were similar to those of other natives of Central and Northern California. The Coast Miwok believed in animal and human spirits, and saw the animal spirits as their ancestors. Coyote was seen as their ancestor and creator god. In their stories, the Earth began with land formed out of the Pacific Ocean. [26]
Coast Miwok traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Coast Miwok people of the central California coast immediately north of San Francisco Bay. Coast Miwok oral literature shares many characteristics of central California narratives, including that of their linguistic kinsmen the Lake , Plains ...