The constellation I have chosen is Ursa Major, specifically the Big Dipper within it. Ironically, Ursa Major is my favorite because of one of its many creation stories. Ursa Major is also known as the Great Bear, and lies in the northern hemisphere. It was one of the 88 constellations first recognized by the International Astronomical Union. It is also the third largest constellation in the sky. I recognize that the Big Dipper is not a constellation, this creation story is too good to pass up sharing. I love sharing it whenever I am camping with friends and the sky is clear enough to see it. This story is of Native American orgiin.
Once upon a time, Coyote was hungry, as he always was, but didn't want to hunt for his own food. Instead, he
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"Oh, I don't know if I can tell you," he said. The next night, the same thing happened, and so Coyote decided to ask the second youngest, "What are you all at?" "I can't tell you," the brother replied. The third and fourth night, Coyote asked the middle and second oldest brothers, and received yet again, the same answer. Finally, Coyote had the courage to ask the eldest Wolf brother, who was so powerful that he, himself, had a pet dog. "What are you looking at?" Coyote asked the eldest. "You have spend five days with us now, Coyote, and you have earned the right to know," he said. "Look there, in the sky. There are two bright points stuck up there. We believe that they are animals, but do not know how to get them down." But Coyote had an idea! He went back to his old home, and came back to the den with a bow and many arrows, and began shooting the arrows up into the night sky, and there the stuck. Quickly, Coyote made a stepping ladder of sorts in the sky, and the five Wolf brothers and him began climbing higher and higher. As they reached closer to the two bright spots, it became clear that they were two large bears. Terrified, Coyote hung back and let the five brothers go ahead of him. He
The coyote seems to sense Robert's connection with animals and realizes that he is not a threat. This is why the coyote continues to let Robert follow behind when it knows he is there. They drink together at the river, enjoying a "special communion" (Pirie 73). Then the animal tries to communicate with Robert by barking at him, "telling Robert the valley [is] vacant: safe" and then barks another three times to announce its departure (28). When Robert returns to the base, he pays the price for his time with the coyote and is confined to the barracks, but the experience has a profound impact on him.
For as long as we have known them, myths or cultural stories have had many lively adventures and meaningful morals told throughout them. The story “How Coyote Came by his Powers” from Coyote Tales (1933) uses the devices of personification and irony to communicate the theme of humility.
While running, Robert witnesses the coyote come across two gophers, but it did not “pause to scuffle the burrows or even to sniff at them” (Findley 26).
Lost by his parents at a young age, Pecos Bill was raised by a pack of coyotes who treated him like one of their own. When Bill reached adulthood, he left his coyote family and took up ranching and cattle herding as a profession. Most of Bill’s adventures him protecting his herd of prized cows out in the sandy desert. He rode a snarling mountain lion and a swirling cyclone to make sure they did not take his cows. Bill even used a lasso of rattle snakes to rope his whole herd at
The maned wolf is omnivorous and is a secondary consumer alike the Coyote and Darwin's fox. It has a similar diet to the coyote’s, since it feeds on small and medium sized mammals such as rodents, birds, fish and rabbits. Unlike the coyote and Darwin's fox, the maned wolf does not have any specific enemies or predators, but it may be attacked or even killed by feral dogs.
Billy is coming home from work one day when suddenly he hears some dogs up the street fighting. He goes to check it out and finds them picking on a redbone hound. He saves the dog and cares for it through the night. It reminds him of his childhood. When Billy was ten years old he lived on a farm in the Ozark Mountains of northeastern Oklahoma. He wanted two good coonhounds very badly, he called it “puppy love”, but his papa could not afford to buy him the dogs. For many months, Billy tries to content himself with some rodent traps his papa gives him, but he still wants a dog. Then one day he finds a sportsman’s catalog in an abandoned campsite. In it he sees an ad for good hounds, at $25 each. He decides he wants to save $50 and order himself two hounds. Billy works hard, selling fruit and bait to fishermen, and gathering fruit that he sells to his grandfather at his store. Finally, he saves enough money and gives it to his grandfather to order the dogs for him and asks him to keep it s secret. When a notice comes that they have arrived at the mail depot in the nearby town of Tahlequah, they decide to go into town the next week. That night Billy decides he can not wait any longer. He packs himself a little food, and heads of for town following the river through the woods. He walks all night, and finally reaches town in the morning. The people in town laugh and stare at the young hillbilly, but it does not bother Billy he is there on a mission to get his dogs. He finally collects his dogs and walks back out of town with their small heads sticking out of his bag. Some schoolchildren mob around him and knock him down, but the town sheriff rescues him. The sheriff is impressed with Billy’s determination, and says he has grit. That, night Billy camped in a cave with his two puppies. They wake up in the middle of the night to hear the call of a mountain lion. Billy builds a fire to keep them safe, while the bigger of the two dogs, the male, barks into the night air.
The lake finally melted and flooded the cabin, so a tent was pitched only ten yards from a hunting path. A boundary was made after the tent was pitched and the wolves never crossed it. Farley figured out the wolves were living on mice much more than caribou. When the heat came the wolves more their pups to a summer den where they could run. He watched the wolves hunting one day and was in a rage when they would not try and attack any of the healthy deer. Watching closely he figured out that they usually only eat the sick and weak deer.
If there is one great constellation, it is the constellation of Gemini. As a Zodiac Constellation, it is only visible during parts of the year. It's two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, give it the name of the Twins. Anyone born in the end of May until late June is said to have two faces: one of Pollux's and one of Castor's.
Zumbo, Jim. "Coyote School: Master the art of coyote hunting to be a better big game
Part Two of the novel shifts the narrative perspective to that of the she-wolf. After the famine is over, the wolf pack separates, and the she-wolf and three males travel together, until one of the wolves, “One Eye,” kills the other two. The she-wolf and One Eye travel together, then, until it is time for her to settle down to give birth to her cubs. Another famine comes upon the land when the cubs are still young, and all of the cubs die—except one: a gray wolf cub. This gray wolf is the strongest and the most adventuresome of all the litter. Yet early in his life, he learns how to snare food and along with this ability, he learns the lesson of the wilderness—that is, “eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.”
A tumbleweed crosses the path of four sheriffs marching to their deaths; they march without fear and with pistols strapped at their waists. As they march all the town's folks watch in awe over what is about to occur. Finally, at the end of their march the four sheriffs have arrived at the O.K. Corral. Awaiting them are four red bandana-wearing men who begin to stare the sheriffs down. Continuing to stare each other down a silence begins to fall between the eight men. In the midst of the silence, the eight men draw their hands closer to their pistol wearing waists. With an itchy trigger finger, one of the sheriffs winks at one of the bandana wearing men. Startled in anger at the sheriffs' wink the bandana wearing man began to reach for his pistol. Before he could draw out his pistol the sheriffs, who winked had pulled out his gun. The silence breaks as bullets start to fly.
Hence, the image of the trickster Coyote is the focal point in these two cultures, because of his/her never-ending desire to start the next story for the creation of the world and have everything right. Native American culture has a lot of dialogic perspectives in it; in the form of stories and conversations in which all humans and non-humans communicate (Irwin,2000, p39) and writers often highlight the importance of the oral cultural inheritance both as the notion of their being and as method for their writing. Coyote in traditional oral culture reminds us the semiotic component of sufferings of
...n rabbits, Robert’s sense of protection is perceived in the presence of birds and his wild edge is from the coyote. This is an indication that animals and human beings are essentially one being, struggling for survival within a harsh world.
"A Coyote Columbus Story" shows the Native point of view of the beginning of colonialism. When introducing Christopher Columbus into the short story, Coyote says "[t]hat is the one who found Indians" (King "Coyote" 123). In many of King's stories, he writes narration without quotations, but this particular short story doesn't contain a single quotation. The style in which it is written is not similar to many other post-colonial texts. Rather than depicting historical facts directly and accurately, this story portrays real characters, such as Columbus and the Indians, but rather doing strange things, like playing ball. While the events didn't occur the way King states, he is reaching for a deeper meaning of the how colonization effected Native people, from the point of view of the Natives. The symbolization and mockery within this short story represents the resentment of the arrival of colonization. On page 126, Christopher Columbus and his men are looking for things to sell, in turn symbolizing the greed of the colonizers. Then, on page 127, Christopher Columbus gets the idea to sell Indians instead, representing slavery during the colonial period. The idea of kidnapping Indians and selling them as slaves appears after his men gather a monkey, a parrot, a fish, and a coconut. Columbus tells them that "[t]hat stuff isn't worth poop" (King "Coyote" 126). Columbus was very much part of a slave-driven society including slave-trading, working as a sugar buyer and visiting colonies where slaves had been traded for years. Here, King both highlights what really motivated Columbus -- finding things to sell to make money. He is depicted not as the familiar hero of history, or a great explorer, but as confusing the New World with China, and ...
The girl took great pride in the fact that she helped her father with the chores on the farm. Her main chore was to water the foxes. Laird would help with a small watering can though he would usually spill most of his water. The girl would also help her father when he would cut the long grass around the fox pens. He would cut it and she would rake it up. He would then throw the grass on top of the pens to keep the sun off of the foxes. The entire fox pen was well thought out and well made. The foxes were fed horsemeat, which could be bought very cheap. When a farmer had a dying horse her father would pay for the horse and slaughter it. Her father was very ingenious with his fox farm and the girl was obviously impressed. She was proud to work with her father. One time while her father was talking to a salesman he said, “Like you to meet my new hired man.” That comment made her so happy, only to have the salesman reply that he thought it was only a girl.