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No point to this, just enjoyed the story.
Coyote received a basket from Old Woman. He took the basket to the middle of the desert and opened it. The people ran out and went in all four directions to populate the earth. Coyote looked into the basket, and at the bottom were people who were crushed and broken -- He put the lid back on the basket. Coyote then took the basket to the mountain, the home of brother Wolf. Wolf was wise and would know what to do. Wolf healed the people and made them strong. Wolf taught these people how to find food, water and all the other things they would need to know to survive. He gave the basket back to Coyote and told him to return to where it had first been opened. Coyote was to tell the people that this harsh land, that others had passed by, was theirs. That they were now smarter and stronger than the others and able to find what they needed here. They would find plenty in this land that appeared to have little.
EmeraldCoaster
(131 posts)American Origin story Nice.
calimary
(81,085 posts)pecosbob
(7,533 posts)I love to hear and read peoples' histories. I have always felt they tell us a great deal about ourselves. Everything is inextricably linked and can only be understood as a part of a greater whole.
denbot
(9,897 posts)Thank you ripcord.