Myth Folklore

At the beginning of time there was one tribe of Native Americans that lived in the Mississippi Valley. They had no contact with other tribes but knew they were out there. The only way they were able to survive was because the animals in the forest would come and help them. Some would bring vegetables so that the tribe could eat while others would bring other dead animals so that the Native Americans could use them. Whenever the tribe received an animal they would respect it by praying first and then use the entire animal. They wouldn't disrespect the animal by not using all the parts. They believed that since the other animals were bringing them the dead animals the least they could do was to respect the animals that brought them. One day an animal brought a plant to the tribe and placed it near the fire pit. One of the Native Americans thought this was a sign and then threw the plant in the fire. After throwing it in the fire he inhaled the smoke from the flames and understood...

I love reading old stories because I see how much they have changed. Also sometimes they tend to stay the same. In this weeks reading most of the stories stayed the same throughout but the endings were a bit different. Also I read some stories that I have never heard of before which give a good insight of the old times they were written in. The first story that really caught my attention was the story of the goats and the wolfs. In this story the mother goat was leaving her children and warned them to be careful of the wolf because it will try and eat them. The mother told them that the wolf had a loud voice and had black paws so be on the lookout for these things. The wolf did try and come but the kids realized the first time it wasn't there mother by the sound of her voice. After that the wolf then went and ate chalk to make its voice soft. When it went to the house again the wolfs saw the paw of the wolf and said their mother did not have black paws. The wolf then went to a ba...

I added word counter to google chrome because I found myself always having to type in the website or use the bookmark. I usually fall short of the word minimum but sometimes can guess on how many words I have which helps a lot. I suggest everyone gets this added because it does help when I am creating a story or even commenting.

A lot of stories from the past talk a lot about trickery. Like the story Johnny-Cake was a version of the gingerbread man. I have never read the gingerbread story myself but I feel like this wasn't like the original at all. In this story a family was making a cake and while the cake was baking the mother and father left the house and told their son to watch over the cake. They said to make sure not to open the oven until it was done. The son couldn't wait and opened it up a little bit then the cake escaped while mocking the sun. He ran out the house and taunted the parents saying they could not catch him. He then ran by two well diggers and mocked them too saying they could not catch him either. Then he ran by a wolf and said the same thing. He then went to a bear and said he could not catch him and eventually the bear became too tired then just rested the night. The last thing he taunted was a fox and said that he could not catch him but the fox said he could not hear him so t...

In the first Ted Talk the woman talked about how a single story was dangerous and would create an idea in a persons head which might not be true. I really related with this story because all my life I've been part of a single story. I have had so many people come up to me and would be surprised when I would speak english clearly because their first thought was that I was born in a different country and was an immigrant. I was born here but people always reduce my life to where my parents are from and what they have seen from the news. If they were to know more stories about me then they would understand that I wasn't just a brown man but someone that was born here and understood the culture, even making it my own. In the second Ted Talk it talked about how we are connected so much to the idea of fictional characters. I was surprised to see that people usually cared about fictional characters more but understood that they should not be feeling that way. It makes sense however ...

In this weeks reading I chose to do fairy tales because I have always heard that fairy tales are darker then they seem. I have been told that since a kid the fairy tales I hear about are not the true original stories and have deeper meanings with much more going on in the stories. Some of the stories I recognized like the one about the three little pigs and others I did not like the one about the wizard and the book. The three little pigs story seemed like it was going to be the normal story but I never knew they had asked a man for the things to build their house. The version I heard was that the pigs just found the materials and made their houses. I had heard in one version the pigs just ran to the next house that was still standing and in another they were ate like in this version. I had never heard about how the final pig was being stalked by the wolf after he had tried to blow his brick house. The wolf tried to trick the pig into coming out of the house but the pig would always ...

I didn't know about favicons and I wish I would've known about them earlier because they add an interesting element to your page. I chose the sun as my favicon because it is such a strong thing and I always admired it ever since I was a kid.

Like most of the stories about the Native American tribes they have very beautiful descriptions as to why the world is the way it is. One of the stories talked about how the sun and moon were brother and sister. The sister was the sun and would stay on the east and the moon was the brother and would stay on the west. The sun would have a secret visitor once a month that would come to her and stay until she had to leave. She never saw his face but wanted to know who it was. She devised a plan to grab some ashes and put them on his face. She made up an excuse that she couldn't see his face and put the ash on him. When she went up the next day she saw the moon as well and saw the ash was on his face as well. The brother became embarrassed and decided to stay away from his sister except some days he would have to come near but would only be a sliver of himself. I think it's a beautiful story because I would have never imagined this myself. The Native Americans explain things in a v...

Once in an ancient land there was a man that was part of a tribe. One day he decided to leave the tribe in search of a wife for himself. He left in the early part of the day so that he wouldn't be seen by the other tribe members because they would always make fun of him for not having a wife. He had one friend in the tribe and told him that he was leaving so that someone knew if he didn't come back in time then something had happened to him. The man started on his journey to find his partner and went west. He started up the mountain to try and pass it because he had never been on the other side of the mountain. The tribe he was part of told many stories about how the other side of the mountain had a lot of mystical creatures and was a very dangerous place. The man didn't ever take these stories serious but now as he was making his journey he was worried it might all be true. As soon as he past the mountain he felt a cold breeze which sent chills all across his body. He ...

In the Eskimo folk tales the stories were a little different but still the same. The first story talked about how man came to be which is discussed a lot among the Native Americans and their stories. In the second story there was a group of brothers and there was one brother who didn't have a wife. Later on in the story that one brother heard one of his brothers talk about killing the brother with no wife. When he confronted his brother the one plotting to kill dropped dead. He was creating a monster through magical powers to kill his brother. Once he died the monster betrayed him and started to eat his brother. The brother with no wife went back to all of his brothers and didn't say anything about what had happened. A little while later they all got worried and decided to look for him. The brother with no wife told them they should look at the island where no one goes which is exactly where the brother had died. They get there and see what had happened but don't blame anyo...