Origin+Myths

=Origin Myths= > · > · *Customs, institutions, or religious rites > · *Natural landmarks such as a great mountain > · *Events beyond people's control. > > >
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 * It is the need to explain how life began giving birth to myths and traditional stories that were passed down from generation to generation. These stories are called origin myths. Myths explain phenomena, including:
 * **Example:** "When she became a young woman, she and the eldest son of the grizzly bears were married. In the years that followed they had many children, who were not as hairy as the grizzlies, yet did not look exactly like their spirit mother, either (When Grizzlies Walked Upright retold by Richard Erodes and Alfonso Ortiz)."
 * The story is that the Indians came from the daughter of a spirit/god and unfortunately was lost after she didn't listen to her fathers warnings. she was then rescued by grizzly bears, and in time marrying one, and having many children, and that is how the fist indians were created in this particular myths. Stories like this give a fictional history of the beginning of a nation, race, being. etc.

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