Tusayan Katcinas (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Tusayan Katcinas (Classic Reprint) written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tusayan Katcinas In the use, throughout this article, of the words gods, deities, and worship we undoubtedly endow the subject with conceptions which do not exist in the Indian mind, but spring from philosophic ideas resulting from our higher culture. For the first two the more cumber some term supernatural beings is more expressive, and the word spirit is perhaps more convenient, except from the fact that it like wise has come to have a definite meaning unknown to the primitive mind. Worship, as we understand it, is not a proper term to use in the de scription of the Indian's methods of approaching his supernal beings. It involves much which is unknown to him, and implies the existence of that which is foreign to his conceptions. Still, until some better nomenclature, more exactly defining his methods, is suggested, these terms from their convenience will still continue in common use. The dramatic element which is ascribed to the Katcina2 ritual is more prominent in the elaborate than in the abbreviated presentations, as would naturally be the case, but even there it is believed to be less striking than in the second group or those in which the performers are without masks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.