Myth Folklore

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...

The first story was like most of the stories I have read in the Native American section of this class. It talks about two animals and shows a lesson both of them learned in it. It also shows why they are the way they are today. I found that a lot of these stories give reasonings for why things are the way they are. There was another story that talked about why a rock has a hole around it. It said that a man was running away from a bear after he made the bear angry and they ran around the rock for sometime. After running around for a while there was a hole created around which helped the man survive. Later on in the story he also wanted to get some berries which required him to go underwater and almost caused him to drown. When he came back out of the water he was mad and hit the bush which cause the berries to come out. He then declared that this is how berries should come out of the bush and that is why people used to hit bushes so that the berries would come out. There was also sto...