Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Week 10 Reading A: Native American Marriage Tales

READING A:
So what happened here was that a young man "took advantage" of a cow/buffalo and she gave birth to a son. I'm unsure as to whether the son is a cow or a human or both because how could he talk to humans if he was just a calf? It looks like the man eventually came to love his family so much he died to get them back.
This story was extremely dark. So the bear killed the deer wife. Then the deer children killed the bear children. Why were there two wives? Where was the husband in all this? I think I can write something about this. Maybe have the husband come back wondering where in the heck his family went.
Okay... so some guy's leg gave birth to a child. Then this bull comes along and wants to marry the child. After a few tries, he got her.
This part tells us why bulls have shorter horns (than they did before?) and why they are hunted by humans. So the wife ran away from the bull and got up on a tree. He found her and started ramming the tree with it and breaking his horns. Then he got stuck in the tree and died. The rest of his herd ended up with short horns because he made them ram the tree so much.
So then an evil moving rock wanted to marry the girl. The girl and her family escaped by using a ball to bounce themselves to the stars. This tells the reason as to why rocks no longer move.
There were two girls who each wanted an eagle and a whale husband. They got their wish and found out that it wasn't the best life and abandoned ship.
There was a man who had some random person taking care of his house. Which is kind of creepy and weird if you ask me. He then spied to see who it was and it turned out to be a fox who told him she was his wife. Then over time, she started smelling bad and he asked about it and she up and left.
A man was fishing and happened to kill a killer whale. Then the friends of the dead killer whale took revenge by capturing his wife. The man got help from a shark to get his wife back. 
So many things happened in this story. The wife was cheating on the husband with a giant snake. I don't even know how. Then the husband killed his wife and fed her to his children. He left the head there and the children ran away after realizing what they did. Then in the end, they made some lions kill him. What did I just read?
A woman fell in love with a bear. Her little sister saw what happened and told the family, causing them to kill the bear. The older sister made her little sister get the flesh of the bear and all was well after that... then one day they were playing and big sis got touched in the wrong place by little sis and big sis ended up killing a ton of people. 
This story basically finished with the older sis getting killed. Then it was tied with the constellations
Constellations.
Source: Starryskies.

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