Bailee McLachlan

H English III

8/26/12

Raven and the Sources of Light

 

This myth was an accretion/conjunction myth. It could also be a division/consummation myth because Raven morphed himself into a seed so that when the chief’s daughter came to get water “no matter how she tried to drink some of the water, the seed was always in her way.”(519). Since it kept getting in her way, she finally ate it. Soon after she became pregnant and had a child. The child was Raven. The chief loved his grandson and gave him anything he wanted and since Raven knew that the people needed the sun to get food and to live, that he would work his way to getting it no matter how long it took. First he got the stars, then the moon, and then he got the sun. it took him a couple weeks before the chief forgot to close the smoke hole so that Raven could fly out and bring light to his people. He finally got the sun and flew away with it and lit up the sky in order for his people to live.