The cornmeal spilling out the sides of its mouth. That dog ran to the top of a hill and leaped into the sky, The people chased after him making the loudest noises they could. The noise was so loud it sounded like thunder! The giant dog turned and began Suddenly the people jumped up beating and shaking their noise makers. Landed near the basket and then began to eat great mouthfuls of cornmeal. They looked up to see the form of a giant dog swooping down from the sky. Late into the night, they heard a whirring sound like many bird wings. They gathered their drums and turtle shell rattles and later that night they hid around the area where the cornmeal was kept. It was decided that this must be a spirit dog fromĪnother world! The people did not want the spirit dog coming to their village, so they decided to get rid of the dog by frightening it so bad it The elderly couple immediately alerted the people of the village. Large that they knew this was no ordinary dog. In the middle of the spilled meal were giant dog prints! These dog prints were so Then they noticed that the cornmeal was scattered over the ground. They discovered that someone or something had gotten into theĬornmeal during the night! This upset them very much for no one in a Cherokee village stole from someone else. One morning an elder man and his wife went to their storage basket for some cornmeal. During the cold winter, the ground meal would be made into bread and mush. Dried cornĬould be made into corn meal by placing the corn inside a large hollowed stump and pounding it with a long wooden pestle. After gathering the corn from the fields, some of that corn was dried. In those days the Cherokee People depended on corn for their food. Long ago when the world was young, there were not many stars in the sky. Here is the story, retold by Barbara Shining Woman Warren: The Cherokee have a story about How The Milky Way Came To Be. Then, the souls of the dead follow the path of the Milky Way for four days until they arrive in a land of peace and plenty, All souls have to path Yolkai Nalin, the most fearedĪnd venerated deity in Apache mythology. The Milky Way symbolizes the road to the afterworld a trail made by departing spirits. Curtis describes the association of the Apache people with In Volume 1 of his epic 20-volume work The North American Indian,
In most Native North american cultures, is is seen as a path taken by the spirits. This mythical band is the source of many myth around the world. Our sun is one of an estimatedīefore the invention of the telescope, the Milky Way was observed only as a hazy band of light in which no individual stars could be distinguished.
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