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I really do have flowers on the brain right now!
Today I found a wonderful Cherokee bear story about Autumn!
The Great Bear
A
great black bear ,Nyah- gwaheh was terrorizing a village. Children
stayed out of the woods for fear of this animal. Four hunters set out to
track down and kill Nyah- gwaheh. The bear was said to possess magical
powers and could cause its tracks to disappear. The hunters had a
magical dog that could see tracks days after they had vanished.
The
four hunters were great hunters but one of them was fat and lazy. He
always wanted to take breaks. On one break he reached into his pouch
for a snack and found squirmy things in it which was a magical sign that
the bear knew it was being hunted.
The
bear ran and ran up the mountain to escape the hunters. It was so huge
that it was easy to track. The forest was being torn up as it passed.
As the bear tired it stopped in its tracks to kill the annoying dog and
one of the hunters succeeded in driving an arrow through it.
They
cut the bear up and roasted it when one hunter noticed strange sparks
in the darkness far below his feet. They were no longer on the mountain
but up in the air! The powerful magic of the bear had led them to the
world of the sky!
The dog started barking at the pile of bones and they came alive and the hunters chased the bear across the sky.
Legend
has it that each autumn the hunters chase the bear across the sky and
when it is killed the blood drips from the sky onto the trees. The fat
from the fire causes the grass to turn white.
I got this great story from the online publication, Cherokee Myths and Legends of The Black Bear
Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler
Sometimes
my husband and I joke about how we got together. It is rather unusual
that a girl from McLean VA marries a naturalist poet from a town that is
so small it could be on Hee Haws Salute the Small Town section of the
show.
The latest quip is I didn't hold a poem to your head. You could have said no.
My response is I didn't see the puns on the wall.
Just kidding around! I am very glad I married my mountain man! He is the only one for me!
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