The Americas have within its landscape time capsules of mythology, held with remnants of the cultures that used to roam this world. From Alaska, across the Rockies, the great plains, deserts, Mesoamerica, and South America, there are some fascinating stories, myths, and ritual going back not just hundreds, but sometimes many thousands of years. Consider this an introduction to the subject as there is so much more I want to talk about, and so will make more videos about the Americas in the future.

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References
The Orpheus Myth in North America. Gayton, A.H. 1935. The Journal of American Folklore , Jul. Sep., 1935, Vol. 48, No. 189 (Jul. Sep., 1935), pp. 263293

d'Huy, Julien. 2013. A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber Sky a phylogenetic reconstruction of a Palaeolithic mythology

The Siberian Paleolithic site of Mal’ta: a unique source for the study of childhood archaeology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

Reassessing the chronology of the archaeological site of Anzick
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...


Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:54 Populating the Americas
4:32 The First Cultures in America
9:15 The Oldest Myths in America
13:27 The Cosmic Hunt
19:24 The Orpheus Myth
21:44 A Telumni version (Southern California) of the Orpheus Myth
31:39 Mesoamerica
32:09 The Olmecs
34:28 The Aztecs
38:22 The Mayans
41:26 South America and the Incas
43:20 The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
45:40 The Skywoman myth
50:28 The Sioux
54:19 The story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
56:53 The Apache
58:39 My thoughts on Mythology in the Americas