Excerpt from The League, the Iroquois: Other Legends; From the Indian Muse While the Folk-lore of the Old World has long been made the subject of research and poetic elaboration, the Mythology of the North American Indians has received comparatively little attention. What the Eddas were to Scandinavian Europe; what the Greek Mythology was to the Hellenic mind; what the story of Buddha, with all its clustering fables, is to Hindoo and Mongolian; what the teachings of Christ are to the Christian world, the revelation, in some sort, of a divine love and wisdom, around which gather the deepest affections, the purest h0pes and aspirations of the human soul; - such, undoubtedly, were to the Red Men the body of -their myths and legends, of which but a meager store has been left to us. There is in these fragmentary traditions abundant evi dence that they are the architecture of a religion, a part of the world's sacred literature - the Scriptures of the Ages; scattered rays of Divine Truth come down from above, clothed in such imagery as the then development of the Race made possible of apprehension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.