Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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In a Shasta myth, Coyote saves the world from ten evil moons which have afflicted it with everlasting winter. Deciding to disobey his mother's instruction, the grandson spends the night and the subsequent morning in the cave. Wolf tells Coyote to hide almost all the water, have the Black Spider spin a web to fill the sky's hole, and to hide near the little water still uncovered with Parotsok

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As he leaves the cave, he is approached by some mountain sheep who accompany him on his journey to his grandfather's house. The eldest, knowing who the big mountain sheep really is, plans on leaving him alone but the younger brother ignores his older brother's warning and decides to kill the big mountain sheep. In many of these stories he is a major sacred character with divine creative powers; in others he is a malevolent and often comical trickster. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic, although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur, pointed ears, yellow eyes, a tail and blunt claws. A Maidu myth says that as the Creator was fashioning various creatures out of clay, Coyote tried to do the same.Such tales may have served to reinforce the community moral code, by using outrageous humor to portray examples of intolerable behavior. It begins with Coyote's grandson being sent by his mother to go see Coyote and before the grandson leaves he is explicitly told not to enter a cave that lies between his mother's house and Coyote's house.

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A common theme is of Coyote benefiting the human community by organizing the theft of fire, or of the sun, from the supernatural beings who have been keeping it for themselves; in these myths he is portrayed as a benefactor of the people. Each animal makes a human model in their own likeness; but overnight Coyote destroys the other models, so that only his own model comes to life.The role Coyote takes in traditional stories shares some traits with the Raven figure in other cultures. Some stories depict Coyote as the embodiment of evil lechery: a serial rapist who uses trickery to attack a variety of victims including, for example, his own mother-in-law [7] and his sister. He plans on killing the big one before Wolf tells him that that mountain sheep is actually his own grandson and urges him to not only not kill it, but also to feed the big mountain sheep bunchgrass.