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Extract from Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by Morris Edward Opler. Reproduced by permission of the American Folklore Society from the Memoirs Of The American Folklore Society, Volume XXXI, 1938.

“Antinomy and Cosmology: Kant Among the Maori” by Gregory Schrempp. Reprinted from Myth and Philosophy, ed. Frank Reynolds and David Tracy by permission of the State University of New York Press. © 1990 State University of New York.

Extracts from The Lore of the Whare-Wānanga by S. Percy Smith. Reprinted by permission of the Polynesian Society, Auckland, New Zealand, from Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Vol. III.

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Introduction: Sages and Sophists -- The Great Race -- Cosmogony Today, Cosmogony Yesterday: The Further History of the Chain of Being -- Maori Cosmogonic Thought: A Text of Orientation -- Other Variants -- Antinomy and Cosmology: Kant Among the Maori -- The Quick and the Dead: The Great Race in North America.

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