As I was reading this story, all I could think about is the
TV show The Smurfs. Like the woman that lived in the southland, Smurfette was
the only woman living among the male Smurfs. I wonder how she and the woman that
lived in the southland felt. Did the Smurfs fight over Smurfette the way the
men fought over the woman?
I did enjoy the story of the first woman. It was very cool
how they explained why the women of the south and the women of the north are
talented in different areas. When I was reading about how the men were fighting
over the woman all I could picture is them pulling her like a tug-of-war rope
and I couldn’t help but laugh. I was glad that they just split the woman in two
instead of accidentally killing her. If this story was a part of the Asia and
Africa unit then the woman probably would have died because there was a lot of
murder involved in the stories in that unit.
I have read a few moon and sun origin stories and almost all
of them involve lovers. The moon is the woman/girl and the sun is the man/boy
and vice versa. The use of food (berries and meat) to explain why the moon
fades in Alaska is something I have never read before.
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