Mythology-Folklore

                                                                                              ("Cock;" Web Source: Pixabay ) I really enjoyed reading the Canterbury Tales. With names such as The Cock, the Hen, and the Fox , I thought these stories would be pretty boring. While these stories were less interesting than Part A's, I still enjoyed them. It was interesting to see a nun who was a widow. This story suggests that she is very poor and old. However, this nun is able to provide for herself and her family. She is very smart with her money. She does not over-eat, but she still has food to eat. Being overweight may lead to chronic illness if not treated or lifestyle is adjusted which these chronic illnesses ca...

                                                                                       ("Puppy;" Web Source: Wikimedia) This week I decided to read the Canterbury Tales. I was very fascinated by the Unknown Bride. It initially begins with a man who commits a crime that could lead to his death. I would change up the crime and make it more fascinating and stupid. He should die for the crime, but the Queen is like I will give you a task. If you finish the task, then you will be pardoned from your crime. The task is to find what every woman wants. He goes everywhere to find the answer. They all say different things, so he is thoroughly confused. He gives up almost. He sees a poor old lady. She says she knows the answers. However, she n...

  ("Male Pants;" Web Source:  Pxhere)   This first begins with the typical Jack and Jill nursery rhymes. The story that intrigued me the most was Simon's. Essentially they said that Simon should not wear this one suit. Does that mean that the suit is ugly? If he does not take off the suit, he will not have kids. This suit must be atrocious if she has this much to say about it. She said she would rather give someone else her crown, so I assume she is a princess. She is embarrassed with him with the suit. He loves Sylvia. He asks Sylvia to be his girl. She clearly does not want to do this. In my story, I would make it not a suit. I would make it some crazy other piece of clothing. I am still not sure what clothing exactly. It could be his pants. I would take this more literally. Obviously without a suit, he could not have children. He literally could not do that anatomically. I would try to add some humor, but I don't want to make it an inappropriate story exactly. He w...

    ("Alcohol and fire;" Web Source:  Pxhere)   The children wondered who their father was. The mother insisted that their father was the cloud. The wind is your uncle, and your father is behind him. Wind told the children that their dad lives next door. Cloud said that Wind had something to say to them. They went back and forth between the two homes. One kid showed his lightning powers,  and Cloud realized that the children were his own. Cloud created a storm and tried to drown the kids. If they died, then they are not his children. The children survived. They hung out with their dad, but they wanted to go back to their mom. Cloud was like sure but said not for them to talk to anyone while they left. They tried not to, but then a coyote was being really annoying. Cloud tried to fight coyote. The children turned into mescal. Thunder and lightning go together because of that. I would want to tell this story in a different way. I would not use Cloud or Wind. I wou...

("Buffalo," Web Source:  Wikimedia )  The story I found very fascinating was The Piqued Buffalo Wife. In this story, a human man somehow has sex with a female buffalo. I have no idea how that happens. The buffalo gets pregnant from human sperm. The child grows up and wants to look for his father. He looks literally everywhere. Finally, he finds his father. His father is happy to see his child and wants to see the mother. I wonder why he did not want to be with the mother beforehand. The child insists that the female buffalo will hook him four times and that will be okay. He just needs to be straight. He does as his child insists. The female buffalo turns into a human. She tells him that he cannot throw fire on her. One day he is upset and does so. His wife and child turn into buffalo and calf. Later on, he is very sad. He misses them and feels bad. He looks everywhere for them. He sees the buffalo tribe. The buffalo tribe ask him to identify his child. If so, then he can have...

      (Tokyo; Web Source: Flickr)  I read the Story of Princess Hase. A price was married to a princess since the time they were super young. They were happy though. One area that was causing them sadness however was the fact that they had no children over the years. They really wished they had a kid. They wanted to care for the child and grow old with the child. They made a pilgrimage in order to try to get a kid. In their religion, if they go to this pilgrimage, they will have a child. They went to it, and it worked. They had a child, a daughter. The mother of the daughter died when the girl was only 5 years old. The mother told her daughter to be good. She gave her a  messages that it is okay if her father remarries. The prince married again. This time, the woman was awful. The daughter was good to her like her mom said. The emperor wanted the daughter and now her step mom to play a song, and the step mom could not. Thus, she was jealous the daughter wa...

   (Japan Map; Web Source: Wikimedia) The story that I read is from Japan. It is called The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die in Ozaki.  Once upon a time there was a man called Sentaro. His name was millionaire. He was not poor. He had some money overall which he did not make. He was by no means a millionaire though. He received this money from his father. He had a fear that many people have which is death. He had heard of a tale. In this tale, there was a man who had everything in life money-wise. He did not want to die like Sentaro. Thus, he tried not to die and wanted to reach this water that could grant the man eternal life. However, the man that he sent to get the water did not return. Sentaro is convinced that there is this eternal life, so he tries to find it. However, he must be a hermit in order to find the hermits who know where that is. This is very difficult for Sentaro. Although he was not a millionaire, he had money. He was used to the nice things in life, so this...

("Triplets;"  Web Source:  Flickr )  Bibliography:   The Three Brothers  in Stories from Congo by Richard Edward Dennett.  A women had triplets. However, she did not want her kids unfortunately. Thus, she just left them. The kids started to look for food, and all of a sudden there was a lot of food. A spirit told them to eat the food. The kids grew up from eating this food. They had jobs. They had wives, and then had families. The father of the children stumbled around this area one day. He told his wife that these were their kids. The wife tried to find her children, now grown. However, she was not able to. One of the grandchildren saw the lady and were kinda scared. Stranger danger. The triplets were like ok we should kill the intruder. It makes sense. However, the spirit told them not to. They told them to treat her well, so they did. I would want to rewrite this story with not humans. I think it would be interesting if the spirit was actually an animal ...

  "Green Eyes;" Web Source:  Wikimedia )  I read Stories from the Congo. The story that had the most drama was The Jealous Wife. It depicted a story about a man with two wives. He went out and told the wives to stay with their children. The women wanted to be all sweet and give the husband some yummy food when he got home. However, they needed to watch the kids. One wife would stay at home while the other would fish. One wife was really jealous of the other wife's kid. When it was her turn babysitting, she decided she wanted to kill the other wife's baby. Thus, she killed the baby where they usually are. When she woke up, she realized she killed her own baby and not hers. Yikes. I really am interested in this story. I would use the components of jealousy and her own demise as a part of my own story. I would use a more modern approach. I may use something like a test and the other was jealous of a score on a test or just physical beauty. I would want it to be more of a...

("Punjab Map;" Web Source: WikiMedia) This story called Raja Bhoj depicts an interesting story. Raja is wondering around at Raja Bhoj's. He discusses some of the worst things that could occur. I am fascinated by why these are considered the worst things especially when they refer to a girl who is mature but has no hair on her head. For some reason, these worst things were considered smart by the Raja Bhoj, so he was like let's talk some more. They went to Rani Sobhan. In here, they had some water, and all of a sudden a bunch of woman who were ready to attack them appeared. These women had swords, and said that anyone who touches the water from that area would have their ears and their hands cut off. Raja Rasalu told the women who he was. They were scared that Raja Rasalu would kill them, so they decided not to do so. However, he tried to plead with these women that they should not hurt others too. If I recreated this, I would try to alter this story by making it more ...

      ("Map of Punjab." Web Source:  WikiMedia)   One story I enjoyed was The King and His Two Queens. Raja, the king, had two wives. One had a son and the other did not. This story discusses a powerful theme which is envy as the queen who was without a son attempted to rid the son of the other wife. She was jealous of the wife, so she tried to kill the son. However, the son miraculously survives and answers people's prayers.  The wife initially does not recognize him and asks him for a prayer. She asked him for a son, and he promised her a son that would make her cry as much as his own mother cried because of this evil, envious woman. This becomes true. The second story that I enjoyed was How Raja Rasalu was Born. His parents were not allowed to look at their son for twelve years. However, he leaves on his twelfth year. He is naughty when he leaves, but the king cannot do anything because he cannot look at his son. Raja Rasalu doesn't understand ...

  ("Muslims;" Web Source:  WikiMedia )  Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish by J.E. Hanauer  The first story that intrigued me was Moslem Cosmogony and Our Father Adam. I read about many of these topics in Sunday school as a child, but many of the discussions such as how they had a bunch of kids from devils were not discussed. The Tablet of Destiny is one that I had heard a lot about. I fount interesting that it was made from a white pearl. God created a huge pen that started to write everything that happened til the day of judgement. God then created water. The pearl was next created. He created the clouds. God created his throne, but this is actually a debated topic. Some people believe that it could have been made before then.  Different people came from different types fo soil and potentially dust. I always learned that we were made of clay in Sunday school, so that was interesting to me. Adam was dead for like 40 years, but the angels w...

("Muslims;" Web Source:  WikiMedia Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish by J.E. Hanauer The story begins with Lot and the Tree of the Cross. Adam dies and his son Seth plants a branch which turns into a tree at Adam's grave.  Lot's wife had an unfortunate event occur to her, so he was not in a good place, but God told him to water this plant which was the same one planted at Adam's grave. The devil tried countless amount of times to destroy this tree. He got a man to cut the tree down. This same tree served to create the wooden cross that Jesus was killed on.  Musa, his brother, and their two sons went on an expedition and found a couch that suggested the one that fits in it should sit in it. Harun, the brother fit perfectly and God essentially said that he was supposed to die. The angle of death had them leave, and then he was dead. Musa and the sons cleaned his body and notified others about the death. People accused Musa of killing his brot...

 (Adam and Eve; Web Source :  Wikimedia )  Adam and Eve were in the cave and prayed together. Adam died, and Eve was very upset and prayed for him to be brought back to life. She prayed that if God did not bring him back to life, then to make her die too. She said she could only be alive because of him. Adam was put to sleep, and she was made from him. God gave them comfort because he saw they were really sad. God was like if only you two did not eat that apple, but I guess the devil made you do it because he made it seem pleasant. God was like I made you, so I never wanted to destroy you.  They both lived, but now needed water. God made a deal with Adam that he could come back to the garden. Adam did not want to drink the water. They were sad because it was not dark, and before there was no night or day in heaven. Adam beat himself up; he was upset. He looked like a corpse. Eve was silent, so God made her speak.  God was like yo, I made it bright when you were ...

(Adam; Web Source:  Wikimedia ) The Ideal Man was my favorite story. It is one that I am less familiar with. Adam was like twenty years old when God made him, not a baby. He was ginormous. He was perfect in dimensions too. Many other men had traits like him, but those caused them harm. For instance, Samson was so strong, and that killed him. Eve looked like an ape compared to Adam? That is kind of rude. God revealed to him the whole history of mankind while he wasn't even born. He chose to live less than a thousand years. His life was 930, and he gave only 70 to David because he only had a minute to live. God created all the animals and angels when Adam was 1 hour old. Adam because he was made of Adamah, dust. He handed down languages. Adam said which places would be settled by man and which would be waste.  The Ideal Man by Laura Gibbs God made Adam and Eve and said that they will rule over everything. He said that there would be multiple people. God rested on the 7th day. He...

("Susanna and the Elders"; Web Source:  Wikimedia ) Bible Women  by Laura Gibbs but taken from King James Bible  I am not familiar with Susanna's story, so this one intrigued me. After learning the content of this story, I  understood why I did not know this story because it involved a lot more sexual content. The story introduces Susanna, a beautiful girl, who was married to Joacim. Susanna and her family were very religious. Joacim was really wealthy and had a cool garden where people hung out at. Some of the guys hanging out at the garden had a crush on the wife. They even tried not looking at Susanna because she was hot. They liked looking at her but tried hiding their feelings. They were like let's go eat dinner and both were lying just because they both wanted to see her alone, like they were obsessed with her. She showered, and they watched. They snuck into the shower and confessed and blackmailed her. She decided to take the blackmail and maintain her integri...

My two favorite stories were Eve and Sarah. This was found in Bible Women by  Laura Gibbs  and original text from rom King James Bible.  (Adam and Eve; Web Source:  Wikimedia ) Eve:  God ordered Adam to not eat from the tree of knowledge.  God said to eat from every other tree. God gave him animals, and he named them. What names? I could add some here. Adam fell asleep, and he took out part of his ribs and made him Eve. How does he know what a father and women were already? They were naked, and it was fine. The serpent wanted Eve to disobey God's orders to not eat from the tree and was saying that she could get knowledge if she ate from it. She ate the fruit, and gave Adam it too. They made themselves aprons because they were ashamed and aware of being naked now. I could talk more about consequences here as well. God got mad, and Eve said serpent made me do it. God was like you are cursed because he said that Eve would bring children when they are sad and m...

One of the most interesting stories throughout the anthology was Pygmalion's story about how he met the love of his life.  (The Origin of Sculpture by Jean-Baptiste  Renault;  Web Source:  Wikimedia ) The Man in the Moon is an origin story from Laos. It shows how the moon was created. It is a story about a blacksmith who was unhappy with his job and wanted to be a stone, a stonecutter, the sun, and lastly the moon. Being a blacksmith was too hot. A stone was painful. A stonecutter was tiring.The sun was hot, and the moon was even hot. A wise man let him change every time except the last time when he wanted to be a blacksmith again. I feel like this story shows that you should be happy where you are.  There was a man who did not want to marry any girl. He created a statue and fell in love with it. He wanted to marry it, so he asked Venus to help him marry a bride like the statue he made. Venus gave him a bride like the statue. This story is very interesting and s...

                                      As someone who is Punjabi, one story that intrigued me was Raja Rasalu.                                                                                                                          (Raja Rasalu; Web Source: Mythology.blogspot.com ) Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4. Week 3:  Bible Women Week 4:  Adam and Eve  Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6. Week 5:  Folklore of the Holy Land: Moslem, ...