Underwater Cat

[Michael Mccafferty]

There are cosmogonic parallels, as the Underwater Cat and the snake are
constellated within the same archetypal field--long things. Long tails,
long bodies.

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Koontz John E wrote:

> 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?
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> 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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