I really enjoyed the second half of this unit. It was really entertaining. One of my favorite stories was the story of The Maiden Who Loved a Star. This story was about a young beautiful girl who falls in love with a man on a star -- I'm sure you got that from the title. The story begins with a girl in a desert. At night the girl notices a start shining brighter than all the other stars. This initiates her infatuation. She dreams that the star is the home to a handsome man. She eventually falls in love with this man who lives on the star and wishes to join him on the star. The young girl sought help from a witch woman. The witch woman turned the girl into a shrub. The man on the start fell with sparkling pieces of star onto the young girl who had become a bush. The starry bits turned the bush into purple blossoms. Finally, the young maiden and the young man are together.
I also enjoyed How Sickness Entered the World. This story began with introducing the character the old medicine man. He was the leader of the people. He was the one who talked directly to the Great spirit. The Great Spirit sent a messenger to the old medicine man but the old medicine man was to ill to meet the messenger. Instead the old medicine man sent two young men to meet with the messenger. Not knowing that the messenger was a snake, the two young men killed the snake when it appeared to them. The mate of the killed snake came to the camp to avenge the killed snake. She laid eggs and by morning every egg hatched out some kind of sickness. And this is how sickness and disease came to be.
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