Reading Notes, Tejas Legends B


Why Hummingbirds Drink Only Dew
  • Only drink dew 
  • hummingbird and great blue heron ownded a lake tougher 
  • they had a gambling problem
    • Hummingbird bet that he could fly from one end of their lake to the other faster than the heron
    • Whoever lost the bet had to give up drinking from that lake and all others
  • Humming is faster but didn't know he couldn't fly across the lake in one day 
    • got dark and he can't fly in darkness
    • but Heron could fly at night -- but Humming did not know it 
  • Heron was at the end laughing at Humming 
  • this is why Hummings only drink dew

How Sickness Entered the World
  • Sickness used to not be in the world
  • then two Indians killed a messenger from the Great Spirit
  • The Great Spirt left an old medicin man wisdom before the medicine man died
    • GS would send down a messanger to tell the medicine man what to do
  • but the man got too weak so he sent two Indians the messanger 
  • The two young men were waiting for the messenger but saw a snake and started beating it 
    • the snake was the messenger 
  • The two young men were scared something bad would happen to them so they went and left the dead snake infront of one of their enemies wigwams
    • the enemie saw it and did the same with someone else and so on and so forth 
  • That night the mate of the snake came and layed an egg at each wigwam where the dead snake was left 
  • in the moring the egg had hatched out some sort of sickness 

When the rainbow was torn
  • The rainbow gave flowers their colors
  • Where the rainbow touched washed everything with its colors
  • Rainbow tried to avoid cactus plants 
    • but one day couldn't do it 
  • when landed in bed of cactus the thorns caught it to try to keep the colors for the flowers th
  • some colors were able to escape the thorns but other were caught on them
  • Why the white floors on cacti had colors
Cactus Flower




Story source: When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends retold by Florence Stratton and illustrated by Berniece Burrough (1936).

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