Introduction Mythology is an integral part of the protagonist Tayo's journey in Ceremony. Although it is the Laguna people and their stories that form the backbone of the novel, the myths that Leslie Marmon Silko uses are archetypes found not only in Nati...

Every single society in the world has had the innate necessity to find out the origin of their existence and the world that surrounds them. Several American Indian tribes have done it through stories which narrate the beginning of human beings, the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, death and al...

Since time immemorial, through different cultures and whenever they occur, there have been many beliefs about the northern lights. The Inuit around Hudson Bay had the following explanation of what they saw: The sky is a huge dome of hard material arched over the flat earth. On the outside there is...