Let's Find Out - Native American Creation Myths | ASMR [history]

Starting point is 00:00:09 best Western outfit I have. Collected here in one volume is a selection of fascinating tales, religions, North American wide selection, major tribes. More like a shaman, he appears to be pretty mystical. Right before we open up this book, I just want to give a special European diseases. Columbus initially came over here. Many of the settlers actually didn't really need to even worry about. This little introductory glossary of the lives and a very, very condensed history of many of the different tribes from down south. Really are some considerable respect to the spirits of the plants which they grew in the fields. or gathered in the surrounding. The most important of these were the three sisters who brought corn beans and squash

Starting point is 00:12:42 and numerous festivals were held to celebrate the ripening and the harvesting of these crops. For many of the tribes, the gathering of the first corn in summer marked the start of the new year. It was a time for dancing, and games and for ceremonies and thanksgiving for the harvest it was also a time for fasting cleansing houses were swept clean fires extinguished in favor of new ones were settled quarrels resolved in misdeeds forgiven other ceremonies were held to invoke the help of the spirits and to drive away the

Starting point is 00:13:49 harmful. These were often conducted by secret, secret societies, society whose members wore a grotesque and carried turtle shell rattles, represented the faces, horrible bodiless heads, which spread disease by adopting the appearance of the faces, and by performing specials. Besides the faces, dwarves lurking in the caves or in hollow trees, travelers astray creature with long sharp dusks and horned serpents infested lakes and the rivers. The Niagara Falls were said to have been formed by the huge body of one such circle. Linked their chief spirit with the sun and called him Luak Ishto Olaba, the great sacred fire above. Many of the tribes believed that the souls had good lives went to the skyland along the Milky Way,

Starting point is 00:16:47 which they called the Spirit Path, or sometimes the dog's trail, because of the legend that it had been formed by a dog dragging a sack of flower, which spilled. The souls of the wicked and the dark and creation of the world are very similar throughout the eastern. It is said that in the beginning the first people lived in the sky. The earth was covered by water. What it appears to be, as a floating island. Old groves-homes. The story goes, the corns will break and the earth will sink back into the ocean.

Starting point is 00:20:03 Water still covered the earth in the days, so that if the medicine were found, it could be given to her without delay. They begin to scrape away the earth. away the earth. No medicine to be seen, and they dug deeper and deep burned, but still they found. And dejected, they climbed out of the hole and sat on the edge. Just for a moment, lawns bent their long, graceful necks at their burden. We'd better call a council, said his companion, and see what the other animals can suggest. All the burns and animals that lived in the water assembled. Big turtle presided. And for a long time they debated the manner.

Starting point is 00:24:50 It was satisfactory. A big turtle impatiently. The otter said, I will support it on my back. I offered to go first and plunged into the depths. He was gone for a very, very... They saw him coming back through the clear water. The water broke the surface of the water, coughing and weathing. But to everyone's disappointment, He had found no trace of the tree in spite of all his searching.

Starting point is 00:26:53 He went down, then muskrat, then all the other diving animals. Each was gone as long as the otter, some even longer, but to find some earth. It was Toskway. The Toskway the Toad was so small and even realized she was there. The other animals gaped. Big Turtle quieted them and said to the Toad, Very well then, back to see her again. Yet still they watched.

Starting point is 00:29:02 They waited. They waited for such a long time that they began to whisper to each. Not forgotten by the Eastern Indians. Ramassi, to his bravery and cunning, in tales of a time after the world was formed, but while still only a very few people inhabited it, these people, was an old man called Kaehe,

Starting point is 00:32:25 who lived with his young nephew, Each day the young man went in search of food and on his return his uncle would ask him what he had done, what he had seen, what he had found. Sometimes the young man brought back berries and nuts, sometimes nothing at all. For then, the animals were not so easily caught, nor had men learned. What did you see today? The young man replied, I found the eagle asleep in a tree. Rupp in the smoke hole, the eagle sees it there. he will take it away without causing, trembling.

Starting point is 00:34:48 They crouched, and there was a long, terrible silence, and they scarcely dared, for he means the fleet-footed like deer were turned away for Kae He told them, you have no need to fear eagle, only those who, like ourselves, are weak, like ourselves who are weak and slow. Preachers who had the most to fear like otter drive them off, skunk said, I will spray my scent at them and tear out their eyes. Porcupine said, I will run my quills.

Starting point is 00:38:04 Turtle said nothing. He just sat down and looked about them, blinking sleepily as turtles do. While they were discussing their courses of action, Eagle and his friends appeared in the sky overhead. immediately everyone forgot his brave resolve and fled towards a tall tree growing nearby each scrambling over the other in haste to reach the upper most more the eagles swooped down on kay his lodge and saw that in the confusion the turtle had carried it away they watched the turtle plodding off through the woods with the eagle's feather clamped firmly in his jaw. The opposite, the fire and threw. Pretended that it was all a game to him, and laughed and rolled around in the flames, as if he were enjoying himself tremendously.

Starting point is 00:41:24 Does not worry you? When the river instead, the river do anything else you want, but please, stragged. Turtle struggling a wonder had they gone, then turtle swam across the river and hauled himself up onto a log by the opposite. Beagle's feather from his shell, and waving it aloft shouted, Kea, Kea, which is the cry of the warrior who had defeated his enemies, and still had possession. As Otter climbed onto the log, Turtle dropped into the water and dived. He came up on the other side of the log.

Starting point is 00:44:14 None of the other animals dared to challenge Turtle, and the eagle feather remained, remained in his possession. ever afterwards as a token of his superiority over all other. To this day the Indians claim the turtle cannot be overpowered.

Let's Find Out - Native American Creation Myths | ASMR [history]

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