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Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899

"The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America"

The Tarahumara language of Sonora
offers an almost parallel instance. In it _regui_, is _above_[TN-11], up,
over, _reguiki_, heaven, _reguiguiki_, a hill or mountain (Buschmann,
_Spuren der Aztek. Sprache im noerd. Mexico_, p. 244). In the Quiche
dialects _tepeu_ is lord, ruler, and is often applied to the Supreme
Being. With some probability Brasseur derives it from the Aztec _tepetl_,
mountain (_Hist. du Mexique_, i. p. 106).
[227-1] Balboa, _Hist. du Perou_, p. 4.
[229-1] Long's _Expedition to the Rocky Mountains_, i. p. 274; Catlin's
_Letters_, i. p. 178.
[229-2] Richardson, _Arctic Expedition_, pp. 239, 247; Klemm,
_Culturgeschichte der Menschheit_, ii. p. 316.
[230-1] Long, _Exped. to the Rocky Mountains_, i. p. 326.
[231-1] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, v. p. 683.
[231-2] Schwarz, _Ursprung der Mythologie_, p. 121.


CHAPTER IX.
THE SOUL AND ITS DESTINY.
Universality of the belief in a soul and a future state
shown by the aboriginal tongues, by expressed opinions,
and by sepulchral rites.


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