ANTH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Iroquois, Handsome Lake, Muskrat
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Arthur c parker was seneca grew up speaking the language. Ely s parker of loi was his grand uncle. William fenton who worked a lot on iroquois anthropology the three grand elements of. There"s also a fourth one, about religion, the end of the world. So ones about the beginning of the world, it"s development, and the end of the world. In the time of handsome lake they were told it would be 300 years to fully restore them, should stay away from white people, and after that time the world would be restored. Have both three and four story elements, sort of like us. First of the great cycles of myths, creation. What happened in a world above this world, why and how it ended, led to the creation of our world below it. In beginning two worlds and upper world and lower world full f water and without form.
