"Pawnee" Quotes from Famous Books
... (such as, how did human speech arise, or how came the animals by their names?), but to dehort its readers or hearers from the abominable vice referred to in Lev. xviii. 23.7 There may have been stories in circulation like that of Ea-bani (sec. 8), and even such as those of the Skidi Pawnee, in which "people'' marry animals, or become animals. Against these it is said (ver. 20b) that "for Adam he found no helper (qualified) ... — Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |