The Malhado’s way of life is a little weird to me. Many of these people are tall and built. They live on an island from October to the end of February. They also love their offspring’s. If a son dies the whole village joins the family in weeping. The funeral occurs after a year of mourning. All of the dead is buried except for the medicine-man. Everyone dances and celebrates until the medicine-man becomes powder. A year later His powder is presented as water that his relatives drink. Each man has wife except for the medicine-man. He has two or three wives a piece. When a daughter gets married she must take everything that her husband hunts or catches to her father’s house. The mother and father of the daughter never enter the husband’s house after the marriage. The Brides are welcome to spend time with the family of the husband.
In a house where a son or brother may have died no one is allowed to leave their house for 3months. This causes hunger in most of the houses. Three months out of every year for them they eat oysters and very bad water. Their houses are made of mats and their floor is made of oyster shells. They sleep in animal skin. These Indians stay naked except for the women who cover some parts of their body with wool that grows from trees. Their damsels dress in deerskin. They speak 2 different languages which are Capoque and Han.
The Avavares dig their own food and carry their own loads of wood and water. These Indians go naked all day and cover up at night. They don’t much food. If they were ever caught eating roasted food they would steal it from their hands. Most Indians probably wouldn’t try because they were in such a bad condition that roasted food would have caused them pain. They could digest raw food better. They also shed their skin twice a year. The sun and the air made sores on their bodies and heavy load caused cords to cut their arms.
On the island of doom the men don’t sleep with their wives from the time they find out their pregnant to two years after giving birth. This was a land of poverty so they would go many days without eating that’s why children were breast fed until they are twelve. Men sometimes leave their wives after an argument and return when they please, this is only for men with children. Family men are never to abandon their wives. If Indians are to get into a disagreement they are to fist fight until they are tired. After the fight they go live apart from each other for a while then return as friends. The Indians and the Christians have many arguments. The Christians tried to make slaves out of the Indians.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
The Iroquois
The Iroquois never had myth. David Cusick was the first to record one on his people. It is called the “A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Islands, the Two Infants Born, and the creation of the Universe. This writer is using logos to catch the attention of the audience. The central contention of this passage is the two twin brothers fighting about the creation of earth. The story begins with the lower world and the upper world.
A woman has two twin boys who are born and raised in darkness. One’s name was Enigorio, who was the good mind and Enigonhahetgea, the bad mind. The good mind decided not to stay in the dark so he decided to create light. He created light from the sun, light from the moon and light from the stars. The bad mind was not too pleased with this but the good mind continued to create things. He made rivers, animals, forests, and fish. After creating the universe he felt like something was missing so that’s when he decided to create male and female. He named them Ea-gwe-howe which means real people. The good mind created thunder and rain to make the island more fruitful. The bad mind tried to do the same thing as his brother and create human life but he failed to do that. With the bad mind getting irritated by his brother he decides to challenge him. Whoever gains victory will govern the universe. The good mind accepts his challenge. The battle lasted for 2 days and the good mind ended up winning by crushing his brother into the earth. The bad mind’s last words were that he would equal power over the souls of the universe after death. At the end the bad mind sinks into the ground and becomes the evil spirit and the good mind retires from earth.
The next story is Pima stories of the beginning of the world. The Pimas got their name from the Spanish. Most Pimas are Christians. This passage also uses logos to catch the reader’s attention. The central contention is that Juhwertamahkai can’t seem to make the men and women the way he want s to make them. So he keeps recreating them until he is satisfied with the results.
In the beginning there was no earth, there was only one person whose name was Juh-wert-a-Mah-kai. He created the world by holding out his perspiration and tipping over 4 times. The first thing he mad was a bush for ants. Then he created a bigger bush that he was able to fit in. The next thing he created was a person. He made him with the shadow of his eyes. He created this human to help him with creating tree, humans and everything else that needed to be done on earth. The next thing he created was the sun, but in order to create the sun he first need water. After creating the sun he places in the east because it wouldn’t work anywhere else, as well as the moon. Next he created the star by putting water in his mouth and spurted it into the sky. After doing this the stars weren’t bright enough so he took stones and mixed them in with the water. After created his world with man and women who never grew old Juhwertamahkai realized that all there wasn’t enough food so the human began eating each other. Juhwertamahkai doesn’t like this so he lets the sky fall on them and kill them all. He then recreates man and women but this time they all turn gray. He didn’t like them gray so he let the sky fall on them once again. In conclusion he ended up making the world the way it is today.
A woman has two twin boys who are born and raised in darkness. One’s name was Enigorio, who was the good mind and Enigonhahetgea, the bad mind. The good mind decided not to stay in the dark so he decided to create light. He created light from the sun, light from the moon and light from the stars. The bad mind was not too pleased with this but the good mind continued to create things. He made rivers, animals, forests, and fish. After creating the universe he felt like something was missing so that’s when he decided to create male and female. He named them Ea-gwe-howe which means real people. The good mind created thunder and rain to make the island more fruitful. The bad mind tried to do the same thing as his brother and create human life but he failed to do that. With the bad mind getting irritated by his brother he decides to challenge him. Whoever gains victory will govern the universe. The good mind accepts his challenge. The battle lasted for 2 days and the good mind ended up winning by crushing his brother into the earth. The bad mind’s last words were that he would equal power over the souls of the universe after death. At the end the bad mind sinks into the ground and becomes the evil spirit and the good mind retires from earth.
The next story is Pima stories of the beginning of the world. The Pimas got their name from the Spanish. Most Pimas are Christians. This passage also uses logos to catch the reader’s attention. The central contention is that Juhwertamahkai can’t seem to make the men and women the way he want s to make them. So he keeps recreating them until he is satisfied with the results.
In the beginning there was no earth, there was only one person whose name was Juh-wert-a-Mah-kai. He created the world by holding out his perspiration and tipping over 4 times. The first thing he mad was a bush for ants. Then he created a bigger bush that he was able to fit in. The next thing he created was a person. He made him with the shadow of his eyes. He created this human to help him with creating tree, humans and everything else that needed to be done on earth. The next thing he created was the sun, but in order to create the sun he first need water. After creating the sun he places in the east because it wouldn’t work anywhere else, as well as the moon. Next he created the star by putting water in his mouth and spurted it into the sky. After doing this the stars weren’t bright enough so he took stones and mixed them in with the water. After created his world with man and women who never grew old Juhwertamahkai realized that all there wasn’t enough food so the human began eating each other. Juhwertamahkai doesn’t like this so he lets the sky fall on them and kill them all. He then recreates man and women but this time they all turn gray. He didn’t like them gray so he let the sky fall on them once again. In conclusion he ended up making the world the way it is today.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus set out to find a route to Asia in 1492.Many of his voyages were disaster and disappointments. Christopher left many of his settlers behind on the Island of Hispaniola. The settlers demanded gold and sexual partners as a homecoming gift. On Columbus’s third voyage he traveled to South American mainland which brought him closer to paradise. But once he got back to Hispaniola he was arrested. He later died after his fourth voyage. There was a journal summary written by Bartolome de las Casa.
The letter from Columbus to Luis de Santangel was regarding the first voyage, it was written at sea on February 15, 1493. It had been Thirty-three days when Columbus and his crew had found many little islands filled with people. He decided to give the islands names. He named the first island San Salvador, the second one Isla de Santa Maria de Con ceroidon, the third Fernandina, the fourth one was named Isabella, and the fifth one was named Juana. Columbus was determined to find big cities on these islands so he traveled eastward until he found another island that he named Espanola. On the island there were many rivers and trees that were so high they looked as if they were touching the sky. The land was high with many sierras and very lofty mountains. There were also birds and fruits of much diversity.
The Letter from Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella is talking about his fourth voyage, which he wrote in Jamaica on July 7, 1503. In the beginning of the letter he talks about his crew and how they have gotten sick. He demands that whoever did this to them to come forward. Columbus was later made a prisoner while waiting on ships to come rescue him. He started his voyage at age twenty-one and is now ended it with gray hair. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was son of the village alderman. He watches Columbus in chains passing through Cadiz. Cabeza de Vaca took 600 man to Hispaniola where a quarter of the left and then to Cuba where 2 of his ships were lost in a hurricane. He told the rest of his crew that for now on it would be every man for himself. The other rafts were wrecked on Galveston Island.
After that there was only Cabeza de Vaca and 3 other men who survived the wreck. He spent his first 2 years as a prisoner of the Han Capoque clans of the Karankawa Indians. The Indians took them north where they gained power. He was arrested again by the Christians. That sent him south where he was able to lead an expedition to the new world. After the expedition he was forbidden to return to America.
The letter from Columbus to Luis de Santangel was regarding the first voyage, it was written at sea on February 15, 1493. It had been Thirty-three days when Columbus and his crew had found many little islands filled with people. He decided to give the islands names. He named the first island San Salvador, the second one Isla de Santa Maria de Con ceroidon, the third Fernandina, the fourth one was named Isabella, and the fifth one was named Juana. Columbus was determined to find big cities on these islands so he traveled eastward until he found another island that he named Espanola. On the island there were many rivers and trees that were so high they looked as if they were touching the sky. The land was high with many sierras and very lofty mountains. There were also birds and fruits of much diversity.
The Letter from Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella is talking about his fourth voyage, which he wrote in Jamaica on July 7, 1503. In the beginning of the letter he talks about his crew and how they have gotten sick. He demands that whoever did this to them to come forward. Columbus was later made a prisoner while waiting on ships to come rescue him. He started his voyage at age twenty-one and is now ended it with gray hair. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was son of the village alderman. He watches Columbus in chains passing through Cadiz. Cabeza de Vaca took 600 man to Hispaniola where a quarter of the left and then to Cuba where 2 of his ships were lost in a hurricane. He told the rest of his crew that for now on it would be every man for himself. The other rafts were wrecked on Galveston Island.
After that there was only Cabeza de Vaca and 3 other men who survived the wreck. He spent his first 2 years as a prisoner of the Han Capoque clans of the Karankawa Indians. The Indians took them north where they gained power. He was arrested again by the Christians. That sent him south where he was able to lead an expedition to the new world. After the expedition he was forbidden to return to America.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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