ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GODS & DEITIES - INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN & ARCTIC MYTHOLOGY

Step into a world where sea women rule the animals beneath Arctic waters, Raven releases light into creation, sacred mountains speak through ancestral power, tricksters reshape the earth through wisdom and folly, corn mothers sustain humanity, and divine forces govern storms, hunting, harvests, warfare, healing, death, renewal, and the balance between people and the living world. Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Indigenous North American & Arctic Mythology invites you into the extraordinary sacred worlds of Inuit, Cherokee, Navajo, Lakota, Hopi, Iroquois, First Nations, and many other Indigenous traditions-a vast mythological landscape shaped by ice, oceans, cedar forests, desert mesas, grasslands, inland lakes, great rivers, ceremonial cycles, ancestral memory, oral tradition, and centuries of sacred storytelling.

From Sea Woman, Raven Father, Kiviuq, Raven, K'wati, and Bear Mother to Changing Woman, Spider Grandmother, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Iktomi, Nanabozho, Glooscap, Sky Woman, Selu, and the Cherokee Thunderers, this richly illustrated volume explores how creators, goddesses, ancestors, transformers, tricksters, culture heroes, and sacred beings came to embody creation, destruction, hunting, agriculture, fertility, warfare, healing, morality, death, transformation, and cosmic order.

Discover Arctic Sea Powers, Sacred Tricksters, Culture Heroes & Divine Ancestors

Rather than offering disconnected summaries, this encyclopedia enters the internal logic of the sacred traditions themselves. It reveals how divine power became connected to sea ice, whales and seals, cedar and salmon, volcanic peaks, medicine wheels, sacred pipes, kivas, corn, buffalo, clan relationships, ceremonial fires, seasonal migrations, dreams, visions, ancestral teachings, and the living landscapes through which Indigenous peoples understood their responsibilities within the cosmos.

These stories show how creator beings, animal guardians, corn mothers, divine twins, thunder powers, solar figures, culture founders, transformers, and sacred tricksters shaped ideas of community, reciprocity, courage, hunting, agriculture, kinship, conflict, death, renewal, and humanity's relationship with nature. Here, Sea Woman governs the animals of the Arctic waters, Raven brings light into the world, Changing Woman renews herself with the seasons, Spider Grandmother assists creation, White Buffalo Calf Woman brings the sacred pipe, Nanabozho shapes the land through wisdom and mischief, Glooscap protects humanity, and Selu gives corn to future generations.