Post by Okwes on Dec 28, 2007 11:02:00 GMT -5
Fire - Alabama
Bears formerly owned the Fire and they always took it about with them. One
time they set it on the ground and went on farther eating acorns. The Fire
nearly went out and called aloud. It was almost extinguished. "Feed me," it
said. Then some human beings saw it. They got a stick toward the north and
laid it down upon it. They got another stick toward the west and laid it
down upon it. They got a stick at the south and laid it down there. They got
another at the east and laid it down and the Fire blazed up. When the bears
came to get their Fire, it said, "I don't know you any more." They did not
get it back and so it belongs to human beings.
Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians, by John R. Swanton; Smithsonian
Institution, USGPO, Washington, D.C.; Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin
88 [1929] and is now in the public domain.( Alabama )
Bears formerly owned the Fire and they always took it about with them. One
time they set it on the ground and went on farther eating acorns. The Fire
nearly went out and called aloud. It was almost extinguished. "Feed me," it
said. Then some human beings saw it. They got a stick toward the north and
laid it down upon it. They got another stick toward the west and laid it
down upon it. They got a stick at the south and laid it down there. They got
another at the east and laid it down and the Fire blazed up. When the bears
came to get their Fire, it said, "I don't know you any more." They did not
get it back and so it belongs to human beings.
Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians, by John R. Swanton; Smithsonian
Institution, USGPO, Washington, D.C.; Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin
88 [1929] and is now in the public domain.( Alabama )