NATAMST 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pomo People, Menstrual Taboo, Syncretism

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 151
• Professor: Diane Pearson

Document Summary

Pomo believed creator - made the world. Most equated creator with coyote an animal & mythological. Some e. pomo gave creator different name , separating him from. All pomo believed there was a time in distant past when animals could speak & had other human as well as animal attributes. Then all creatures changed to their present forms. Supernatural forces abided in everything ; supernatural beings could. Early historical period - post discovery; pomo performed the kuksu. Totally non-violent & all the buffalo & game that white people had killed would come back too. Life would be good again, the way it had been. 1872, this reached the pomo - in modified form called earth lodge. Stressed destruction of world from which faithful could be protected by gathering in subterranean lodges. Pomo streamed into the clear lake region to await this event . starvation, they were not prepared for life to go on.