Mythology Blog

Hi there!  For the second reading this week I chose to read the stories in the Great Plains unit. These stories come from    Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson. I chose to take notes over the story A Tradition of the Calumet which tells of their use of a ceremonial pipe. Here are those notes:  Lived in the North by a lake and along a river  Many warriors "the Mysterious One"  Great nation, hunted widely   from the "Big Water in the Sunrise" (The eastern coast possibly?) to the "Mountains in the Darkening Land" (Mt Laurel and others in that chain)  Chiefs and old men hold a council  Runners come to the council  Council decides they will attack the Great Nation for "scalps and horses" A big white bird flew in and landed above the chief's daughter  She heard a voice  "Call all the chiefs and worriers together. Tell them the Mysterious One is sad because they seek the...

Hi There!  This week I chose to read the Pacific North West Unit. I took notes over "Why There Are No Snakes On Takhoma," "Chinook Wind," and "How Silver Fox Created the World"  because I thought they would be the stories that I could adapt well. Of those I have included here my notes over "Chinook Wind" that I took while reading.  Chinook Brothers (5): Warm Wind Lived on Great River Walla Walla Brothers (5): Cold Winds Walla Walla = “the meeting of the waters”         Grandparents live at Umatilla “the place of the wind-drifted sands” The brothers fighting caused hardship for the people. “blew down trees and raised great clouds of dust” Walla Walla Brothers suggested they wrestle and whoever loses gets their head chopped off Coyote was the judge of the contest Coyote told the Chinook Grandparents to put oil on the ground Coyote told the Walla Walla grandparents to put ice on the ground The ground was slippery...