Week 10 Reading Notes: California and the Old Southwest Tales (Reading A)

The Creation of the World 
  1. Three Coyote Creation Stories
    • Tells the end of the story at the beginning 
      • coyote started the creation, eagle finished it
    • Coyote and fox created man 
    • Coyote brought fire 
    • Rely heavily on animals for earth's creation 
    • New story could be "If Dogs Created the World"
    • waterways were created from Indians crying over those who died  
    • Coyote seemed to save and fix a lot of earth's beginning problems 
  2. The Creation of the World
    • Earth doctor is responsible for creating the earth, sun, moon and starts 
      • only discusses earth creation not the creation of people 
  3. Spider's Creation
    • Spiders were the only living creatures at one point 
    • Spider sang for a long time and created two woman first then animals followed 
    • then the two women (the two mothers of all) created the moon and sun and were leaders of people and the other of different nations
  4. The Great Fire; The Origin of Light
    • Coyote is responsible again, saved the world from a fire that ruined everything 
    • Turned two boys into women and men and the world was fixed 
    • The Coyote created something for the hawk to light in the sky because animals were bumping into each other all over 
  5. Creation of Man
    • All animals went into the creations, took aspects from animals but dulled them
    • All came up with an idea, but coyote ruined them and put life into his before others
  6. Old Man Above and the Grizzlies
    • Grizzlies found and married Little Daughter, made a new breed of man aka man
      • They used to walk on two feet, could talk and carried a stick
      • When Old Man found out about Daughter he came and punished the bears
        • That's why bears walk on four feet looking down 
  7. The Creation of Man-kind and the Flood
    • First creation earth doctor made he destroyed 
      • men and woman took over and he could no longer feed them
    • Made a huge flood that not many escaped 
      • Not much different from the other floods mentioned
    • Mixture of Noah's ark 
  8. The Great Flood
    • The flood rose to the top of the mesa's, which just created the land and the coast 
      • so the ocean 
    • Had to create a door for all to make it to the top, had a sack of stars to hand out 
      • someone took a peek and then the stars burst out and fell into the sky 
  9. The Fable of the Animals
    • Man awarded all animals with a length of bow that matched their power 
    • Coyote wanted the longest so he stayed up all night to meet with man
      • fell asleep and missed it, longest bow to cougar and shortest to frog
    • Man felt bad for the coyote and gave him a large bow, so coyote was kind to man and did a ton of them 
      • hence why coyote has had such a big role 
  10. The Course of the Sun
    • The spider plotted out the path of the sun
    • Spider stopped at breakfast lunch and dinner to eat, so the sun stopped
    • Then the sun did it himself and each time it stops it is answering the spiders questions of:
      • how many people died, lived and how are they doing 
  11. The Theft of Fire
    • Coyote stole fire from men 
    • ran and relayed it between animals, the 2nd to last was the squirrel 
      • the fire burned his back giving him the black lines on its back
      • gave it to the frog after and "hags" pulled its tail off (no tail) 
        • so the frog swallowed fire and went under water 
    • The frog then spat the fire onto driftwood, which is how you can make fire out of two pieces of driftwood 
  12. Coyote, Tortillas, and Mesquite Beans
    • Woman tricked coyote into drowning over tortillas 
    • Coyote ate mesquite beans after he wasn't supposed to, and they expanded in his stomach and killed him 

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