Essay On Dominican Myth

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Every single person alive is born in a specific place, in this place the people around you teach this stories that you know aren't true, but they still tell you the story, well this stories are call: myths. Do you know "la ciguapa", I'm sure you heard about it, this is a Dominican myth and in this essay we're gonna talk about myths, but Native American ones.

The native Americans had an explanation for everything for example, they though that the fire belonged to Mr. bear and this Mr. used the fire as he pleased until one day he and his friends forgot fire and this one stared to grow in amazing ways until he had burned almost all the wood, but it wasn't fire fault, fire needed to be feed it and by miracle at that instant the men passed by and
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Sometimes when we feel frustrated or sad we cried, but have you ever wonder, what was the first tears that the man had?, well the native Americans have a myth for this. Years ago men saw a seal in the see and though that if he kill this seal his women will be so proud and his son will be full of joy, so he decided to kill the seal and prepared himself to do so, but at the instant he was going to get the close enough, was to late the seal had already scape, the men felt water in his face and found out that he was crying, he stared to cry so loud that his son looked for her mother.

In conclusion the native Americans found an explanation for everything not mattering if it was logical or not, there only purpose was to have an answer and if it was difficult to find this answer they will backed up with

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