Week 10 Reading Notes pt B: Tejas Legends

Because I am planning on entering the health field, I thought it would be interesting to focus Wednesday's notes on "How Sickness Entered the World." Although I really enjoyed all of the readings from the Tejas unit, this one stuck out to me. I am doing a normal, classic note-taking strategy since I tried a new strategy for Tuesday's notes. The style I usually stick to is bullet points of important sentences and topics, that way I can look back and easily remember what is going on.

How Sickness Entered the World:

two young Indians killed a messenger from the Great Spirit

before this happened, there was no sickness and people lived very long lives

a very old, wise man was dying
the Great Spirit wanted to teach the man how to leave his wisdom with his tribe

he was going to send a messenger (remember above^^) to tell him how to do this

because the old man was so sick and dying, he needed people to go to meet the messenger for him.

he sent two young Indian men to meet up with the messenger for him

a large snake approached the men as they waited for the messenger

obviously, this scared them and so they beat it until it died
when I read this, I thought it definitely would have scared me too! I would have done the exact same thing as the men in this situation.

when the old man found out, he said trouble was coming and then he died! very sad.
the messengers tried to take the snake somewhere else so that they did not get the bad mojos.

the mate of the snake that they killed came and laid eggs everywhere that that people had moved this snakes
these eggs turned into sickness, which is how the first sickness entered the world.

The Snake

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

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