Caleb's Myth-Folklore Assignments

A Flintstone Knife ( Wikimedia ) October 15th, 1973 It was a cold and dreary night. The wind bit at my nose. The flooded street seeped into my shoes as I walked down 5th Avenue towards El Agujero.  I had been tracking the Sola gang for 6 months. They're operations sprawled across the city. Drugs, prostitution, trafficking. If it was somebody's vice, the Sola gang provided it. They didn't care who or what tried to stop them. Nobody ever did. Nobody ever stayed alive long enough. I thought I was different. We all do, don't we? Most people tried to take out the Solas gun blazing. They figured if they could take out the head, the body would wither. Nobody ever took out the head. Cops figured they could make it under cover. A total of three tried. The first made it 3 months before his head showed up at his kid's birthday party. The next lasted 1 month. His arms were safely delivered to his aging mother. The final idiot lasted a whole 3 days. His corpse was found sitting ...

 For this week's reading from part A I am taking notes on the first story, a collection of creation myths. Creation and Longevity In this creation myth from the Achomawi (Pit Rive, California), a coyote is the central character responsible for much of what we have today. The coyote scratched up the Earth from nothingness but eagle was mad there were no mountains. So coyote made some hills. They weren't tall enough so Eagle scratched up big ridges. While flying feathers fell from Eagle and these became trees, bushes and plants. Then coyote worked with fox to make man. Coyote said let them die and fox said let them live forever. In the end, coyote's stuff was stronger and people die. The natives were cold so coyote went to a place far west and stole fire. He kindled the fire up in a mountain. Upon seeing the smoke, the natives went to get it. Old Mole and Coyote This is a creation myth from the Shastika of California. Somewhere, old mole dug and threw up Earth and on this Ear...