{"product_id":"the-short-swift-time-of-gods-on-earth-the-hohokam-chronicles","title":"The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles","description":"In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the \"Hohokam Chronicles,\" is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth.\n\nNow this extraordinary work, composed of thirty-six separate stories, is presented in its entirety for the first time. Beautifully expressed, the narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages. Central to the story is the murder\/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam.\n\nDonald Bahr extensively annotates the text and supplements it with other Pima-Papago versions of similar stories. Important as a social and historic document, this book adds immeasurably to the growing body of Native American literature and to our knowledge of the development of Pima-Papago culture.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0520084683\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0520084683.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bahr, Donald|Hayden, Julian|Allison, William Smith|Smith, Juan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516530761786,"sku":"DBV.0520084683.G","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0520084683-0.jpg?v=1783740819","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-short-swift-time-of-gods-on-earth-the-hohokam-chronicles","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}