A Cree Indian Myth
The Two Brothers
This story tells about two young brothers’ who get separated by an old man who takes the younger brothers toy. The old man took the older brother as captive when he tried to receive his brother’s toy hoof. As soon as the old man takes the boy he heads home. He tells his daughter to go look at her husband. However she did not like him, she said he was too ugly for her. Her father said nonsense and sends the younger sister out to bathe him. Then he was to marry his eldest daughter.
When they married the, the boy, would kill off all the slaves, even though it caused the old man to get very sickly and die. After he died he immediately went out to search for his brother but no one would be able to catch him because he was living with the wolves. So the older brother turned himself into a dead carcass. His younger brother knew it was him but everyone told him to feed so he did, but his older brother jump up into human form and grabbed his leg.
They lived together until one day the younger brother was running along with a moose that had ran into a river. The moose came out but the wolf brother never did.
What I think this stories meaning is that brothers can have a very strong bond. It could also mean that, that is how some Indian rituals tell there stories.
“The Two Brothers.” Indian Mythology Stories, Tales and Legends.
Indianmythology.org. Anthropological Papers American Museum of National
History. 2006. 7 November, 2008.
1 comment:
sammy you're in mythology too??
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