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It cannot be said that the religious sense was exceptionally strong in the mind of the North American Indian. But this was due principally to the stage of culture at which he stood, and in some cases still stands. In man in his savage or barbarian condition the sense of reverence as we conceive it is small, and its place is largely filled by fear and superstition. It is only at a later stage, when civilizing influences have to some extent banished the grosser terrors of animism and fetishism, that the gods reveal themselves in a more spiritual aspect.

1. J. R. Swanton, in Handbook of the North American Indians.

2. Cushing's Zuñi Fetiches (1883).

3. Myths of the New World.

4. Cushing, 13th Report, Bureau of American Ethnology.

5. Brinton, Myths of the New World.

6. Brinton, Myths of the New World, pp. 131-133.

7. Schoolcraft, op. cit.

8. See the author's Myths of Mexico and Peru, in this series.

9. Boas, Chinook Texts.

10. See Myths of Mexico and Peru.