It is so outdated it starts stating the American continent was colonized via frozen bridge from Europe.

Initially, I thought this book would fulfill my need for myths and folk tales of the American aborigine, but I was actually wrong. The myths here and tales are too short to carry one away into another past, but they still are interesting enough to allow one a little understanding into the background

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It's an early 20th century academic book, and thus somewhat outdated, but also posthumously vindicated at times in surprising & impressive ways when Spence was up against the stiff, arrogant ignorance of his peers - many of whom were surely fairly racist as well as more generally blinded by ego. The

This is a book published in 1913 by a Scottish author. I was ready for poorly aged terms and a lot of speculation. I was incredibly pleased and surprised to see that it had none of that.
The way Spence talks about pre-Columbian people is factual and respectful, not referring to their practices as bar

Outdated terms for indigenous peoples aside, the book has a somewhat winding 'narrative' and takes a generally unstructured view at Incan and Aztec cultures.

While it does establish in the prologue the hypothesis that these cultures evolved independent of eastern or western civilizations at the time

This book provides an insight into not only ancient and medieval Mexican and Peruvian religion but also turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century scholarly thinking on the subject. Reading this work further emphasizes the feeling of loss all humanity has experienced by the nearly complete destruction of these c