Sayings of the Ancestors by John Holmes McDowell

Author:John Holmes McDowell [McDowell, John Holmes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, History, Latin America, South America, Religion, Ethnic & Tribal
ISBN: 9780813188089
Google: vIIwEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-11-21T04:21:43+00:00

The identification of these characters as celestial beings locates this particular phase of the Wangetsmuna myth in an early moment in cosmic time, a moment when the supernaturals interacted directly with the very first ancestors of the modern people.

After agreeing to marry her, the miner follows her home, and experiences a near encounter with her solar father:

They arrived after a long time, and when they sat down,

by the edge of a large body of water, when they sat down,

truly, heaven forbid, suddenly those carts came roaring,

to the edge of the water, and that water completely dried up,

yes sir, and that beach was nothing but beads,

composed of beads, of beads was that beach.

Fine, then they hid, that woman and her husband-to-be,

for they had agreed to marry,

they hid in a large jar that was there,

and inside it they were able to sit down.

And then hen droppings were scattered all about there,

the sun’s droppings were scattered all about.

There they took refuge, and as they were hiding there,

heaven forbid, the sun arrived to eat,

he stopped off there as he went on his rounds.

And inside there it was getting very hot,

inside, saintly God, it was getting very hot.

Then, in order to eat, every serving a bushel,

every serving a bushel, as much as three bushels to eat,

three bushels he ate, and three bushels he ate.

And then, then he said to her:

“Why, why does it smell of moss here?”

Then that daughter answered:

“I went to the woods, and there was moss on the tree.

I went to gather firewood. That’s the odor.”

Be careful. He came over to take the lid off,

but then he stopped. Aha.

Surely he sat down again and that machine roared,

and then that water there just completely dried up.

And like that, that body of water disappeared.

And the sun, as he went off to some other place,

that water came together again there.

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