Underwater Cat

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Mon Jun 17 19:05:04 UTC 2002


On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> Does Siouan, or for that matter Muskogean, cosmology have the Underwater
> Panther, Underwater Cat, characteristic of Algonquian and Iroquoian?

Michael's question reminds me that it might be informative in regard to
Siouan terms for 'sacred', 'snake', 'watermonster', etc., to look at
Algonquian usage with manitou, which I think has some semantic parallels.
I don't know if there are any grammatical parallels.



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