After
reading the stories, I found them very interesting and also kind of weird. The
way that these Indians came up with folktales to explain different things
seemed very cool to me. Things like how the land came to be, and
how some animals came to have certain traits sounded like an interesting
concept. It was weird to me how in the story of “When Grizzles Walked Upright”,
the girl had relations with a bear and had children. I mean sure for a folktale
it’s reasonable, but if this were to be heard outside that realm, it’d sound
super weird and sick. I people didn’t know better, and thought twisted; they’d
think that this tale is sick and twisted. I liked the story of “The Quillwork
Girl and Her Seven Star Brothers”, because I never knew they even had tales on
how the Big Dipper came to be. The other two stories didn’t really stand out as
much as these two, but still were very interesting. Who knew how we got
arrowheads and why the brothers were turned into rattlesnakes. It’s interesting
to see a different way of trying to explain different things without using
things like God or Allah, or whomever, but instead, animals. It’s always
intriguing to see how different cultures come up with reasons for different
things to happen.
Enrique I completely agree with you. These myths are very weird, but that's what makes them so interesting. I love when I get to the end of a myth and see what the point of it was. It always opens my eyes to a new way of seeing how something came to be. However, with the myth, "When Grizzles Walked Upright," I did find the relationship between the girl and the bear to be weird. It makes me wonder how the Native American tribe was okay with that idea because I know if someone read the line about the relationship between the girl and the bear they would not believe it and the whole story would or could become pointless to them.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how you view the cultures of these groups as if they are different from many others.
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