Sunday, October 18, 2015

Reading Diary A: Pacific Northwest

The link to this weeks reading and my favorites from it can be found here.

How Silver-Fox Created the World

  • Silver-Fox and Coyote having issues
  • Interesting how Silver-Fox came up with the idea to make a hole and climb down through it in order to live on the island below.
  • Wondering how Silver-Fox made island larger
  • Sunflower seeds
  • "Silver-Fox did not reply" theme
  • Silver-Fox seems very wise and it's interesting how he was able to make all that stuff and then send Coyote out to complete errands.
  • Idea that animals and trees talked long ago before humans
  • "secret of fire"
  • I like how it tied in the pine trees that ran and all stopped in one place to the hunters hardly being able to get through the trees today. Cool connection.
  • Beaver giving fire to different trees
  • Nice how the moral relates to animals and Indians being able to get fire from the woods by rubbing two together
  • Enjoyed this story, short but still told well
  • Wakiash - main
  • The Raven taking him all around the world
  • Animal clothes
  • How the mouse turned and decided to help Wakiash
  • Intriguing how the animals know what Wakiash is thinking 
  • Goal- totem pole

"Beaver"
Source: MythFolklore Untextbook

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