Coyote Finishes His Work Analysis

Long before the Europeans settled in the Americans, Native Americans told stories of why the world is the way it is, to convey how the universe, earth and life began. These stories, called myths, help them rationalize the world they lived around. We know about these myths through the recent preservation to keep the riches of Native Americans oral tradition alive. In addition, we find out more about their perspective on topics such as the traditions, beliefs, and values they hold of the natural word occurrence.
In these myths “The Sky Tree”, and “Coyote Finishes His Work” several supernatural events happen. In “The Sky Tree”, the old chief becomes sick and sends his wife, Aataentsic, to get a special fruit that will cure him at the very top of Sky Tree. As she was trying to get the fruit from the tree it falls through a hole. After telling her husband what occurred “she went back to the hole in Sky Land and threw herself after the great tree.” This quote shows an example of supernatural; she is falling through a land above the body of water that is the Earth. As the story continues, the water animals’ call upon each other to …show more content…
Each one has a main Master that has the power to do astonishing things. For example, the Creator chooses his own creation. In “The Blackfeet Genesis”, the Old Man is the God of the myth. He has the potent to move and create new plains and mountains, “as he went, putting rivers here and there, … -fixing up the world as we see it today.” In “Coyote Finishes His Work”, a coyote “made the Indians, and put them out in tribes all over the world because Old Man Above wanted the earth to be inhabited all over…” The coyote, who is given special gifts to carry out commands from the “Old Man”. The two stories the Old Man refers to the main ruler in charge of entire life and its