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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
EPIGRAPH xi
INTRODUCTION 1
Beautiful Soup 1
Genesis 2
Timeless Tales, Sacred Scraps 2
Being What It Would Seem To Be 4
Where, Why, Who, and When 5
The Language in Numbers 5
The Spoken Word 6
Antecedents and Consequence 7
Mystery 10
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LINGUISTIC NOTES 14
ROMIN TERATOL 15
When the Guatemalans Were Blown Sky-high (Tl) 17
When the Guatemalans Were Blown Sky-high (T150) 21
When Christ Was Crucified (T8) . 23
A Visit to the Underworld (T9) 28
The Priest and the Constable (T10) 30
Rabbit in the Melon Patch (T21) 31
John Skin Slays the Sea Serpent (T107) 32
When One Stupid Indian Won (Till) 37
Musician's Delight (T132) 39
The Child They Couldn't Send on Errands (T136) 39
The Three Suns (T13) 40
Why the Woman Had No Children (T105) 41
Tortor Beebee, Papa! (T106) . 42
How the Weak Ones Won, Rabbit Wins and Rabbit Loses (T5) 44
How to Take Care of Tigers (T2) 47
When His Slip Was Showing (T137) 49
The Buzzard Man (T43) 50
What's Man Like? (T3) 52
The Jaguar and the Jaguarundi (T16) 54
The Man Who Didn't Know How (T138) 54
Respect the Dead! (T15) 57
The Revolution (T14) 58
A Lick and a Poke (T45) 59
When Zinacantecs Rode Home on Horseback (TllO) 60
The Man Who Took the Spook's Wings (T125) 63
A Bottle Won't Do (T135) 65
The Charcoal Cruncher (T12) 66
How Rabbit Tricked Coyote (T20) 67
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