PRE - COLUMBIAN PERIOD - before the arrival of Colombus- different culture- the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures- Indian stories - nature is alive and endowed with spiritual forces, main characters may be animals or plants, often totems associated with a tribe, group, or individual. The closest to the Indian sense of holiness in later American literature is Ralph Waldo Emerson´s transcendental „OVERSOUL“ with pervades all of life- Indian oral ...