READING B:
- this story explains why the sierra nevada range is larger than the coast range
- Hawk and Crow took mud from a dead duck's mouth to create the mountain ranges
- Hawk thought Crow stole mud from him since Crow's mountain range was larger, so he put his where Crow's was
- tutokanula means measuring worm
- the story is about why the rock is called tutokanula
- two boys fell asleep on the rock that is continuously growing
- as a result, no one could go and wake them up to bring them home
- so various animals tried to jump up, but only the measuring worm was able to climb up and get them to wake up
- this is the story of two twin boys who had the power of the cloud: thunder and lightning
- they did not know who their father was and so their mother sent them to go see him
- once they met their father, he was skeptical and had them go through various trials to make sure they were his children
- he finally accepted them, but after they lived to him for a while, they wanted to see their mother
- he sent them on their way and told them to not talk to anyone, but they got caught by a wolf and turned into agave plants
- there was a priest with a beautiful staff who bestowed the people with 4 eggs: 2 blue and 2 red.
- he told them the blue would give them good fortune and happiness and the red would give them cold hard winters, so essentially, misfortune
- the stronger people took the blue egg from the weaker ones
- the blue egg ended up to be a raven
- the red egg was a beautiful macaw
- in the first story, a hare gets caught by a coyote and uses its wit to get away.
- it does so by saying that all of the things that can kill it are its 'friends' whereas the weak stuff was harmful
- in the second story, the coyote wanted its children to be beautiful like the deer, so it put it in a cave of fire and accidentally burned them all to death
- the deer misled the coyote. so sad.
- some quails stole some meat from the coyote's body without him noticing
- he woke up and stole that meat from them and ate it
- they told him he was eating his own meat
- he finally noticed they had cut meat from him, so he went after them
- they disguised a cactus to look like them
- he bit the cactus and died
- the bluebird used to be an ugly color, but it bathed in a river for 4 days and come out blue
- the coyote wanted the same, so he followed its instructions
- but he was so busy wanting to see if people noticed him that he ran into a stump and got covered with dirt
- as a result, all coyotes are the color of dirt
- I didn't really understand this story
- it seems there was a bird that could take out its eyes and throw them up and back into its sockets to make them "brighter"
- the coyote wanted the same, so he copied it, making the bird do it for him
- the first time, it worked, but later one, he lost his eyes
- then the bird found some gum on a tree and used them to fill his sockets
- that's why his eyes are no longer black, but yellow
Coyote eyes.
Source: Larry 1732.
- the rattlesnake was known as the soft child because all it could do was rattle its tail
- other animals would poke it and bother it in order to hear its tail
- so the rattlesnake was given teeth with poison made from hair
- the rabbit bothered it and got bitten and died
- the others tried to cremate the rabbit without letting the coyote know, but fail and the coyote ate its heart
- but the coyote also got burned from the fire in its mouth, which is why it is black
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