Raven Coyote and Anansi Raven and Coyote I Raven and Coyote a Native American tricksters b oral stories collected by ethnographers anthropologists 1 NOT literary works 2 Transcribed from what oral story tellers told them c Totem poles 1 Visual representation of a myth 2 Every totem pole tells a myth 3 Native Americans did NOT worship them II Raven trickster a Tlingit Klinkit people b Alaska and NW Canada c Coastal people d early 20th century CE Tlingit began to Christianize and began to lose their myths e 1909 CE John R Swanton recorded myths before they were lost forever f g Nass River supposedly origin of Tlingit h Ravens are intelligent birds probably why a raven was chosen as a trickster i Sitka Alaska where he got raven stories Culture hero III tricksters as shape shifters a disguise b malleable body animal 1 Prometheus his liver is eaten every day and then grows back 2 Serpent in garden of eden loses his legs 3 Other tricksters can take all sorts of shapes c difference in portrayal sometimes can be an animal or a man or a god 1 2 Don t really belong in one realm IV Raven as creator tricksters are often tied to creation a Raven is son of god Kit ka ositiyi qa raven is part or fully divine b God allows Raven to create the world V Raven as distributor of things to human beings a Unknown why raven distributes these things b Sun and moon 1 A rich man lives up the Nass river he has all the sunlight in the world in a box a b c Raven wants the sun 2 rich man s daughter becomes a speck of dirt a Raven swallows speck of dirt b c puts himself into a glass of water d Daughter drinks the glass of water and becomes pregnant with raven from the speck of dirt e Raven is born as a human baby grandson of rich man 3 as grandson Raven cries a Raven is a creepy baby b Bird eye that dart about c But rich man is devoted to his grandson d Gives grandson things he points at on the wall when he cries 4 grandfather gives moon sun in box a Raven opens the bundle with the moon and opens it to send it to the sky b Grandfather eventually gives him the sun c raven transforms back into a raven and flies away 5 Raven s catchphrase 1 Ga 6 flies through smoke hole holding box of sun so he can put it into the world c fresh water 1 Petrel sea bird controls fresh water at spring 2 dog manure trick a Raven spends the night at petrel s house b Rubs dog manure on petrel and wakes him up and says he had an accident c d Tries to escape through the smoke hole Steals fresh water when petrel goes outside to clean himself off 3 smoke hole spirits grab him and won t let him leave a Hold him there so long he turns black b aetiology Raven black rivers from Raven s beak as he flies around distributing the earth goes canoeing with Raven 1 Petrel controls fog with fog hat 2 3 Petrel keeps putting on the fog hat taking it off and watching the fog dissapate 4 Raven tells him to give him the fog hat 5 gives him fog hat raven distributes fog to the world 4 fog d e fire 1 Raven sees something out at sea Tlingit are coastal he wants 2 sends chicken hawk a Beak is burned off shortened from carrying fire b aetiology for short beaks of chicken hawks 3 Raven puts fire in cedar wood and special stones a Aetiology b Why you can rub together cedar wood and stones and create a fire Raven tries to create genitals out of leaves and bark but it doesn t work finds island full of female genitals 1 2 3 distributes genitals f female genitals VI Raven and animals a Creates Animals 1 people on the other side of the river won t help Raven cross 2 So Raven opens box a b sunlight sunlight streams out and hits people on the other side of the river 3 people animal skins they were wearing those animals b Animals as Food that the Tlingit eat 1 King Salmon 2 Bear Raven sees salmon out at sea a b Finds jade adz sharp cutting instrument half buried in the ground c Raven lies and says jade adz is mocking salmon d Salmon come to shore e Raven kills salmon with spear f aetiology why we eat salmon a fishing trip with Raven Bear and Cormorant b Raven tells bear the go fishing by cutting off a little piece of testicals c Raven cuts off bear s testical for him castration d death of Bear bear is in so much pain he dies e Raven silences Cormorant so he can t inform against him 1 pulls out tongue 2 aetiology cormorant s scratchy voice f raven tricks Bear s wife 1 fills her with stones 2 gets her to drink water 3 stones swell up kills her g Raven eats both bears aetiology for bears as food 3 Herring Raven sees herring out at sea sea gull catches and swallows herring a b c Raven tells heron sea gull is mocking him big beady eyes Kick sea gull in stomach 1 2 3 Similar to when he made up a mocking story for the salmon d Raven s catchphrase 2 Just for the Raven 1 Heron kicks herring out of seal gulls stomach 2 Raven catches it and flies off e why we eat herring VII Raven and flood a old woman controls rising and lowering of tides b Raven convinces her to let tides rise and rise leads to flood c people flee to mountains d Eventually people need firewood descend from mountains e Raven turns people to stone after they descend f g Flood myths destruction then creation Then raven creates new people out of leaves VIII Coyote trickster western U S a b Klamath people lived in Oregon 1 2 especially around Klamath lake IX Coyote and fire Klamath a God Thunder 1 binatural thing god a First binatural storm god b first god who is a thing god not just abstract concepts ect Lives on a mountain 2 3 Has possession of all the fire in the world which he keeps fire in big white rock b Coyote challenges Thunder to game of dice 1 Coyote cheats 2 So fast that Thunder knows he s cheating but can t catch him cheating 3 Says that if Coyote wins dice he gets to keep the fire 4 Thunder says he knows he cheated c Coyote takes skin off d Thunder tries to kill Coyote skin throws rock with fire at Coyote but really just hits Coyote s skin rock shatters 1 2 3 animals carry rock containing fire all over world a Coyote himself doesn t distribute fire b But fire is distributed because of his actions a West …
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