STORIES

Stories were told as a way to teach. A lesson was to be learned. Many characters did not have names, stressing the universality of human experience. Storytelling was done with gestures and voice to enhance spoken sentences that are often verbally lean and very short when written. In the evening, when the hunt was done and bellies filled, the elders of the tribe or the "best storytellers", passed the lessons and history of the tribe to the young ones. After hearing the stories it was hoped that the listener would have a greater humility, greater knowledge, awareness. A greater sensitivity to others and to their culture. In an oral society, every story connects each member of the society to every other. Life and the stories go on, and do not end.
Come, sit on a log by my fire...and the stories will begin...

"The Theft of Fire"	"The Daughter of the Sun"	"The Nest of the Tlanuwa"
"Why the Opossum's Tail is Bare"	"The Origin of Medicine"	"Bear"
"Game and Corn"	"Snake Boy"	"Why Mole Lives Underground"
" Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun"	" In The Beginning"

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