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"Tlingit myths and texts" by John Reed Swanton is an ethnographic collection written in the early 20th century. It gathers Tlingit oral narratives and parallel-language texts with linguistic notes, focusing on cosmology, origins, clan histories, and cultural practices from Sitka and Wrangell. The centerpiece is the Raven cycle, along with tales of killer whales, land otters, and mythic heroes, framed by careful documentation of storytellers and context.
The opening of the collection presents editorial and phonetic notes, a formal transmittal, and an introduction explaining how the narratives were recorded from named Tlingit informants and clans. It then launches into myths: Raven creates and orders the world by stealing and releasing light and water, shaping rivers, tides, winds, fire, animals, and languages through trickery and feats, while naming places and instituting customs. Brief subsequent tales include the slaying of a monstrous clam threatening canoes; the “Four Brothers” who
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