Myth-Folklore Blog

  ("Studying" by Steven S. via Flickr ) This last week was a busy week for me as I had a whole lot of homework assignments. I also had business to do with the club I am in as well as a midterm. Therefore, I was not able to spend a whole lot of time on this class but luckily, I did some extra credit assignments during the break week. It honestly helped relieve some stress as I know that I did not have to do much for this class and could focus on studying for my midterm. However, I did do some assignments for this week which included the readings for the Native American unit. I did both portions of the reading this week as they do not take much time to complete but I would say that the reading for this week was a little more difficult than the other weeks. The main issue I think that I had was all the new vocabulary as well as all the new characters that were specific to that culture. It made it difficult because if you are not familiar with these terms or these character...

  ("Sun Worship" by Kevin Dooley via Flickr ) The story that I chose to focus my reading notes on for this post is “ The Worship of the Sun ” by Katharine Berry Judson (1914). This story is about a young boy named O-na-wut-a-qui-o who ended up meeting the Sun in the “Sky-Plain” and living with him for a while. The Sun was a mighty character that was worshipped amongst the people of the “Earth-Plain” and often interacted with the humans from the sky. The young boy lived with the Sun for a while and was able to see all the things that the Sun was able to do from up in the sky until eventually the boy grew weary of the place and asked to be sent back down. Similar to my other reading in this section, this story had some vocabulary that I was unfamiliar with such as “wigwam” however upon some research, I was able to find out what the words meant. The Sun and the Moon had a sort of magical presence in this story as they were presented as people that could practically do whate...

  ("Polar Bear" by Tambako via Flickr ) The story that I chose to focus my reading notes on for this post is “ The Great Flood ” by Katharine Berry Judson (1914). I chose to focus on this story because I actually remember reading about this story at the beginning of the semester while researching Storybook projects so I thought it would be interesting to see the original story. This story revolves around the trickster Manabush and how he gets his revenge on the evil spirit beings called Anamaqkiu. While reading through this story, the thing I noticed the most was the number of unfamiliar words and characters. I would say that if you have no prior knowledge of characters from Native American stories or no background information at all, this story might be a difficult read as I know it was for me. I had to do a little background research in order to really understand the stories but once you become familiar with the characters that are mentioned, then the story becomes a w...