Mythology and Folklore

Scorpion and the Rabbit A hot day is typically much warmer for a rabbit due to the hair covering its body, so as the day approached high noon and the rabbit quickly finished up its morning rounds in hopes of finding a shaded spot next to the river.  As rabbit hastily made his way across the prairie, he offered little regard to his surroundings for all he could think of was how miserably hot he was. It was then that he heard, "Hey! What were you are going, you better not step on me!"  Only slowing his pace a little, Rabbit looked around to see where the voice had come from. Just when he was about to give up he spotted a black speck following behind him.  "I am sorry my dear friend, I did not see you on my trail. I am desperately seeking a place to rest for the next couple of hours, I am so hot I fear I am about to die!"  The Scorpion laughed at the rabbit, "you are so weak, you do not deserve to be among the animals of the prairie....

The Ghost and the Traveler Reading B:  Two Teton Ghost Stories Indian alone during a storm, found a sweat lodge two ghosts were in it   Man alone at night prepared to shoot with someone approaches  Man shot a ghost that was watching him the woods, the man went to later see where the ghosts were wailing and found a wound in the skull  The Indian Who Wrestled with a Ghost Man sleeping in the woods for a few nights  one night a ghost approaches him and asks to smoke, then says they should wrestle if he wins wrestling the ghost said he will win against his enemies and steal some horses the man won and the ghost was right The Wakanda, or Water God Mother and father loved their son, the boy drowned playing  father so sad he could not sleep in the lodge, but on the floor, because he could hear his son crying under the ground  wanted to dig into the ground, found two men that said the water god has the son, but he ate the ...

Taken From: "Sacred Legend"  READING A: The Creation Deals with tribes Osages lived in the sky Mother: Moon  Father: Sun Osages were told they had to go live on earth The earth was covered in water  Asked the Elk for help  Elk called to help from the winds, which took the water upward Sacred Legend Again, the people start in the water  We could not see, but when we first came up we saw daylight  kind of sounds like us in the womb Found, land Lived next to a big body of water Hunted deer with clubs Didn't know what to do so found stone and chipped it into arrows and knives Eventually made fire, then learned to make a pot to cook  Learned to make hides from their kills to cover things up and wear  Basically described the origin of many Native American traditions  Corn, hide clothing, arrows, axe, canoes  The Legend of the Peace Pipes Made out of the feathers of the owl, woodpecker,...