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Acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint, adapt, or trans-
late the following. For additional information see bibliography and
notes, above.
ALFRED A. KNOPF: “The moon, the moon, Santa Rosa . . .” (chain riddle) from Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec by Miguel Covarrubias. Copyright © 1946 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
ASSOCIATION D’ETHNOLINGUISTIQUE AMERINDIENNE: “The Christ Child as Trickster” and “The White Lily” translated from Dioses y diablos: tradicion oral de Canar Ecuador (Amerindia: Revue d’Ethnolinguistique Amerindienne, Paris numero special 1, 1981) by Rosaleen Howard-Malverde. Reprinted by permission of the Association d’Ethnolinguistique Amerindienne.
JOHN BIERHORST: “The Condor Seeks a Wife,” “Legends of the Inca Kings” (with revision), and “The Moth” as translated in Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), edited by John Bierhorst; “The Beginning Life of the Hummingbird,” “The Pongo’s Dream” (with revision), and “Was It Not an Illusion?” as translated in The Red Swan: Myths and Tales of the American Indians (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), edited by John Bierhorst; “Montezuma” from The Hungry Woman: Myths and Legends of the Aztecs (Morrow, 1984), edited by John Bierhorst; “The Miser’s Jar,” “Tup and the Ants,” and “Rosalie” as adapted in The Monkey’s Haircut and Other Stories Told by the Maya (Morrow, 1986), edited by John Bierhorst. Reprinted by permission of John Bierhorst.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: “Romi Kumu Makes the World” from The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia by Stephen Hughes-Jones. Reprinted by permission of the Cambridge University Press.
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS FOLKLORICOS, UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN CARLOS DE GUATEMALA: “The King’s Pigs” translated from Las increibles hazanas de Pedro Urdemales en Guatemala by Celso A. Lara Figueroa. Reprinted by permission of the Centro de Estudios Folkloricos, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS: “The Origin of Permanent Death” and “The Revolt of the Utensils” as translated in The Way of the Earth: Native America and the Environment (Morrow, 1994). Copyright © 1994 by John Bierhorst. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA E HISTORICA: “What the Owls Said” translated from Cuentos y mitos en una zona mazateca by Maria Ana Portal. Reprinted by permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historica, Mexico.
ROBERT M. LAUGHLIN: “As If with Wings,” “The Blind Man at the Cross,” “The Cricket, the Mole and the Mouse,” “In the Beginning,” and “A Prophetic Dream” from “In the Beginning: A Tale from the Mazatec” by Robert M. Laughlin in Alcheringa, no. 2 (1971). Reprinted by permission of Robert M. Laughlin.
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS: “The Cow,” “The Count and the Queen,” “The Mouse and the Dung Beetle,” and “The Hog” translated from Cuentos españoles de Colorado y Nuevo Mexico (2d ed.) by Juan B. Rael. Reprinted by permission of the Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: “Bringing Out the Holy Word” from Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs, translated by John Bierhorst (1985). Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Stanford University Press.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS: “The Flower of Lily-Lo” from Folktales of Mexico, edited by Americo Paredes (Folktales of the World Series, general editor Richard M. Dorson). Copyright © 1970 by The University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by permission of The University of Chicago Press.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS AND H. RUSSELL BERNARD AND JESUS SALINAS PEDRAZA: “A Day Laborer Goes to Work” from Otomi Parables, Folktales, and Jokes (International Journal of American Linguistics, Native American Texts Series, vol. 1, no. 2) by H. Russell Bernard and Jesus Salinas Pedraza. Copyright © 1976 by The University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by permission of the authors and The University of Chicago Press.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS: “Let’s hunt . . .” (chain riddle) an excerpt from Introduction from An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya, translated with commentaries by Allan F. Burns. Copyright © 1983; “Buried Alive” translated from Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area: Introduction, Notes, and Classification by Elaine K. Miller. Copyright © 1973; “Why Did It Dawn” from Nahuat Myth and Social Structure by James M. Taggart. Copyright © 1983. Reprinted by permission of the University of Texas Press.
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