Monday, March 20, 2017

Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends, Part A

Raven Myth
Aspects i want to keep: ability to transform into a man, association with shadows, ability to create living beings, making things to balance out human deeds, and so add to the bland world

possible story: raven sprang from shadows in a fully formed world-but it was like a blank canvas in a way- as he lived in the snowing north- and he began to create color to fill it- men still sprung from the seeds of his plants- he was lonely before man appeared- first words are "who are you"-
I want the mood to be dismal but beautiful
adding colors like brown or green or reds and pinks of flowers- colorful driftwood fire

another one i could write is how the raven is seeing the world today- and his despair at the ignorance of humans and how he has no more power to changed the world because his power came from the blank canvas of the world and we have used it all up with our own decorations or he is gradually corrupted by men -no longer caring as much for nature and slowly becoming more savage and less kindly- all his care for nature vanishes

or how he left Alaska and went to Australian having given up on the men of the tundra- and that is why there are all the weird animals down there- because he was trying to make a place where the animals would be safe from men who hunted them

Fantasy Raven by arnevierlinger
pixabay
Bibliography:Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911): source 


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