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:
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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