John Bierhorst

Describes how the creation of the world was begun by a woman who fell down to earth from the sky country, and how it was finished by her two sons Sapling and Flint.

Coyote is featured in each of these Aztec interpretations of Aesop's fables.

The best of the American Indian myths are works of art, blending form and content into an organic whole in which the great themes of human experience are interwoven much as they are in a memorable short story or novella. But if the underlying themes are similar, the metaphorical and narrative conventions are vastly different; and it is this aesthetic gap that critic John Bierhorst intends to bridge in this companion volume to his well-known anthology...

A tale shared by the different native peoples of California tells how Coyote and other animals created the world and the people who came to live in it.

A collection of twenty-two traditional tales from the Mayas, including "How Christ Was Chased" and "The Corn in the Rock."

Relates how an Indian warrior, his wife, and son became the firsteagles on the earth.