Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Reading Diary A - California and the Old Southwest

For this reading diary, I am reading California and the Old Southwest.

            The first story showed that the coyote created the majority of the world and was the one who controlled the eventual fate of humans.  The second story is about how the Coyote helped the people from burning up and freezing to death.  The third story is about how all of the people on the earth died from the great flood, but then coyote saved the human race by creating the trees that eventually became the human race.

            This story is about how there was blackness in the beginning and then the Earth was formed.  After the Earth was formed, the Earth Doctor made different parts of the Earth and kept making parts of the Earth until the Earth was complete.

            This story was about Spider and how he created the world.  He created everything found in the world, and he created the different people and put them into different clans.  The two mothers helped him by making the Sun and the Moon to give light to all of the people.

            The first story was about how there was a great fire that burned up everything on the Earth.  The Old Coyote was able to put out the fire, give the Earth water again and then create men and women to populate the Earth.  The second story was about how Coyote and Hawk created light to get rid of the dark.  So they created the Sun and the Moon, one of which burns more brightly than the other.

            This story is about how the animals of the Earth came together to form man.  None of the animals could agree because they all wanted man to have features like themselves and not like the other animals.  So eventually all of the animals decided to work together to create man.  Soon the animals all fell asleep, except for Coyote because he was clever.  Coyote stayed up late and finished man, so when the animals woke up, man was how Coyote wanted him to be.

            This story was about how the Old Man Above’s daughter was blown away to where the Grizzlies lived.  The Grizzlies cared for the daughter and then the daughter married the son of the Grizzlies.  Eventually the Old Man Above found out and was mad.  The Old Man Above then declared that Grizzlies would no longer speak and they would always walk on their four legs in the future.


            This is a story about how the Earth Doctor created a race of man.  The Earth Doctor then destroyed the race and all of the animals on the earth because all of them started eating each other.  Then the Earth Doctor created a new race of man and destroyed that race because they were mean.  He created a flood to destroy everything except for two people who were good.

            This story is about the Great Flood and how the Star People went into the sky and formed the formations that are so well known.

            This is a story that explains why Coyote is so cunning.  Originally man was going to create bows and arrows and give every animal a bow and an arrow.  The longest bow was to be given to the most powerful animal and the shortest bow was to be given to the weakest animal.  Coyote wanted to be first to get the largest bow, so he tried to stay awake all night.  However, Coyote was too tired by the end of the night and fell fast asleep with sticks pinning his eyes together.  So the Coyote received the shortest stick.  Man took pity on him and made him cleverer than any other animal as a way to find food.

            This story tells the story of how the Sun chose the path that he wanted to take, for his daily path.  The story also says when the Sun eats each of his meals, and also what he wears every day.

            This story tells the story of how Indians obtained fire and how it always burns on dry wood.


            This story tells of how Coyote tried to outsmart different people to obtain food, but in the end, his eagerness causes him to die.

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