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American Hero-Myths

CHAPTER II
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14, 1637, p.

46.] In one form of the myth he is the grandson of the Moon, his father is the West Wind, and his mother, a maiden who has been fecundated miraculously by the passing breeze, dies at the moment of giving him birth.

But he did not need the fostering care of a parent, for he was born mighty of limb and with all knowledge that it is possible to attain.[1] Immediately he attacked his father, and a long and desperate struggle took place.

"It began on the mountains.

The West was forced to give ground.


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