learn their religious and mythological folk tales.

And I believe it is this mythological paradigm that inspired Indian mathematicians to discover the number zero.

Totem poles consist of a group of figures that represent animals, birds, fish, mythological beings and supernatural beasts.

There was a nude woman in the lower foreground, and on the hillside in the back, there was a figure of the mythological god Bacchus, and he said, What is this?

And this is all rooted in the mythological past, yet the curious thing is in these long houses, where there are six or seven languages spoken because of intermarriage, you never hear anyone practicing a language.

And over the course of 30 years, I recorded traditional tales from Alex, mostly mythological accounts of Wy ghet, the trickster transformer of Gitxsan lore who, in his folly, taught the people how to live on the land.

We look for a story on the plot level, then we look for a story on the psychological level, then we look for a story on the political level, then we look at a story on a mythological level.

It has floated away down a dark mythological river whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall, well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those who have forgotten even how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.

Nearer yet to town, you come to Breed's location, on the other side of the way, just on the edge of the wood ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England life, and deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day who first comes in the guise of a friend or hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family New England Rum.