Reading Notes: Southwestern and California Legends, Part B

I have already chosen a story from Part A to do so the Part B reading was just for fun! These stories were a little longer and were again more creation stories. I enjoyed them all the same though!

The Children of Cloud

This story did not go at all like I expected it to in both good and bad ways. I kept expecting the mother's warning about not stopping on the journey to their father to come up but it never did. The ending was very random because they didn't talk to anyone on their journey so why were they turned into mescal? This myth just kind of seemed like they wanted a myth so baldy about how mescal came to be and why storms travel from place to place that they made this disjointed thing. 

The Boy who Became a God

Now this story was just weird. It seemed like something from a fever dream or an LSD trip or something. It was really disjointed and didn't make much sense. There were crow people and sheep people. I have so many questions. Why were the crow people in the story? Were they the gods or were the 12 deer the gods? Why didn't the older brothers believe the younger one? Also what happened to the brother in law who believed the younger brother? So many questions! I did  think it was cool that the gods taught the young boy so much and then let him tell his people about it because gods don't often do that.

(Resting Navajo-Churro Lamb. Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

Bibliography. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912). Link to readings