This time I read another Native American myth, this one is called morning star. It's about a girl called Feather Woman, who wants to marry I man who is as radian as the morning star (she decided one morning when she was watching to sky), and then he comes down because he saw her gazing at him, and he brings her back to his home in the sky, there they get married, although the sun, his father, isn't so happy with it. This is becasue his father hates earth people, he thinks that they are no good, and that they can't be trusted. On the other had Morning Star's mother, the Moon, loves the girl. One day Feather Woman's curiosity gets the best of her and she looks under a sacred root, then the Sun finds out and says that she must return home, with her son. This she does, and she is miserable when she returns, because she was truly in love with Morning Star, and loved her life in the Star Country (The place that Morning Star, Moon, and Sun lived) and then eventually, because of her misery she died, with a broken heart.
I thought that this story was really sad, except it showed us how important obedience was to the American Indians. It shows us a lot about the style of writing, which I am learing to like more and more, it feels very poetic, although it is just a short story (well myth).
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