Week 9 Unit: California and the Old Southwest
Three Coyote Creation Stories
- In the first story, it looks like the coyote did much more than the eagle when the world was created.
- Why were his methods more lethal or had a bigger impact on what became of the world?
- The second story also put more emphasis on the coyote's helping hand in creating the world
- Something important is the 9 suns and 9 moons being destroyed
- maybe write a story on how the fragments from the destroyed sun and moons brothers came together to be one big sun and one big moon.
- In the third story, everything was wiped out instead of the coyote and due to his benevolence, he grabbed feathers from various birds and recreated the world
- In this story, the Earth Doctor plays the role of the god that creates the earth
- It almost seems like he plays around with various elements to create the earth
- like throwing the sun or land back and forth
- In this story, the spider was the one who created the world
- the name was Sussistinnako
- It sang and thus created the animals of the world
- it also separated people in to different clans according to animal names
- For the first story, a man who was ridiculed by the two women he wanted to marry got angry and destroyed the world
- In the end, the world was saved by the coyote
- In the second story, it tells of why the moon isn't very bright
- it is because the moon is a ball of tule reeds made by the coyote and the hawk
- It tells about how the cunning coyote created man
- all the other animals wanted to make man into a creature that resembled their own species
- however, while the other animal were sleeping, coyote destroyed all of their clay models and gave life to his own and beat the others to it, so he was able to use his own model
- this story tells about why grizzly bears are the way that they are
- the Old Man Above had a daughter that got swept to the land of the grizzlies
- as a result, she married a grizzly and had children who became men
- Old Man Above was furious and punished grizzlies by taking away their voice and then making them walk on all fours instead 2 legs
- this story also talks about the Earth Doctor as the creator
- he created animals, but because there were too many of them to handle, he had to kill them all in a flood
- then he went and recreated animals and continued to kill them in the flood if they got out of hand
- how did elder brother become the ruler of the world if earth doctor was the creator? why did earth doctor try to create something that would eventually become stronger than himself?
- I wasn't too sure how the turkey bears the mark of the water
- this story talks about how the spider from the previous stories saved the people from the flood and how the constellations were made
- In this story, Kareya is the god figure
- coyote wanted to be the most powerful animal so he sent out to not sleep to meet kareya in order to gain more power, but his plan backfired
- as a result, he was the last to meet kareya and was to be the weakest but kareya felt sorry for him and gave him more cunning power than any other animal
- this story explains why the sun goes from rises in the east and sets in the west
- the sun went various directions and didn't like them before he settled from east to west
- the karok people were cold so coyote set out to steal fire in order to warm them for this story
- I think the story warns about the dangers of eating mesquite beans because the coyote ate them and died.
- In both stories, the coyote died..
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