List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction - Jessica Joyce Christie I. NORTH AMERICA Chapter 1. The Center of the World: The Principle People and the Great Smoky Mountains - Christopher Arris Oakley Chapter 2. Xeroxed on Stone: Times of Origin and the Navajo Holy People in Canyon Landscapes - Polly Schaafsma and Will Tsosie Chapter 3. N?vagant?, ?Where Snow Sits?: Origin Mountains of the Southern Paiutes - Richard Stoffle, Richard Arnold, Kathleen Van Vlack, Larry Eddy, Betty Cornelius Chapter 4. Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the ?Namgis, a Kwakwaka?wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada - Jessica Joyce Christie II. MESOAMERICA (CULTURAL REGION WITHIN CENTRAL AMERICA) Chapter 5. Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth - Manuel Aguilar-Moreno Chapter 6.

The Map of the Province of Maní: A Record of Landscape and Northern Maya Lowland Concepts of Origin - Merideth Paxton Chapter 7. Ancestral Presence at the Navel of the World: Francisco Sojuel and Santiago Atitlán - Allen J. Christenson III. SOUTH AMERICA?REGION OF THE ANDES Chapter 8. Landscapes as Metaphor: Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabí (Ecuador) - Patricia J. Netherly Chapter 9. Inka Pacariqtambo: It Depends Which Eyes Are Looking at It - Jessica Joyce Christie References Cited Contributors Index.