TY - BOOK AU - Campbell,Joseph TI - Historical atlas of world mythology, V.2: The way of the seeded earth, Part 2: Mythologies of the primitive planters: the Northern Americas SN - 0-06-055158-5 PY - 1989/// CY - New York PB - Harper and Row KW - Mythology KW - FAST KW - Animals--Folklore KW - Animals--Mythology KW - Indians of North America--Religion and mythology KW - Agriculture--Symbolic aspects KW - Death KW - Reincarnation N1 - Part 1 - Agricultural origins in the New World. Two agricultural systems. From nomadism to seed gardening. Part 2 - North American agriculturalist rites and myths. The Iroquois. The Algonquians. Tales of the northeast woodland. The people of the trail of tears. The origin of maize and game N2 - 'Combining and putting into perspective the work of specialists in botany, archaeology, ethnology, and geography, Campbell provides a thorough and insightful examination of the mythologies of the earliest agricultural communities in the New World, where two distinct agricultural traditions simultaneously developed: one (predominantly northern) that cultivated maize and other seed crops and a second dependant upon plants propagated by runners and cuttings, like the sweet potato.' ER -