Old Man Coyote: Native American Myth

Coyote was a Native American trickster. He was a half human and half animal and the most famous trickster of all. He has 4 sons and one wife. Coyote always teamed up with a Fox, Badger, and Rabbit in the early stages of the earth. At this time the book described the earth as incredibly soft and innocent. The readings say ““Well my younger brother, whatever it may be, bring it up.” The duck dived again. A long time he stayed down there. When he came up he had something in his beak”. “Why, what can this be” Old Man Coyote took it. “Why, this is a root,” he said. “Where there are roots, there must be earth. My younger brother, dive again. If you find something soft, bring it up.” The duck went down a third time. This time he came up with a small …show more content…
Old Man Coyote examined it. “Ah, my younger brother, this what I wanted. This I will make big. This I will spread around. This little handful of mud shall be our home.” (American Indian Myths and Legends, (eds. R. Erdoes and A. Ortiz, Coyote Myths 2). This part talks about earth before we knew it. Everything was still and there were no winter or summer. It was summer all the time because there was no moon orbiting the earth and the moon is said to be death and dark. Tremendous magic happened occurred during this historical present in creating the universe involving Coyote and Hermes. The earth and the universe are affected tremendously by the actions and morals of the famous mythical creature Coyote. Coyote is compared and contrasted in this writing to Greek God Hermes. Hermes was born in Arcadia and was known because he was a thief and was always stealing cattle from his brother. His brother was Apollo. Coyote and Hermes both created magic into the universe, but it is different magic. Coyote and Hermes both are very sexual and have magnificent stories of sex. People today would say Old Man Coyote is horny and Hermes is more of a rapist. The two creators are both interested in the same things but do them very …show more content…
They are lovers. They tend to love in different ways. Hermes loves with aggression and Coyote loves with passion. The Old Man Coyote couldn’t hesitate to have sex with the two young beautiful girls that were the daughters of an evil witch. Coyote didn’t care as long as he could have sex he would risk his life. Every handsome man that had sex with these girls were never seen again. After a great meal served by the witch the daughters informed them of the situation once eagerly crawled into bed with the two girls. They told him that the lady was a witch and placed her teeth into their vaginas and if he put his penis inside of them it would chomp it up. Coyote could even hear the grinding of the teeth inside the girls vaginas. Old Man Coyote was up for a challenge to have sex with the girls without dying and having his penis chomped up. He stuck an arrow into one of the girl’s vaginas and it reached her heart and killed her. He then went over to the old woman witch and killed her with his knife. Coyote than chose one of the girls and chose to make her his wife after saving his life from not being able to hold back from life threatening sexual intercourse. “”I’d like to be your wife, but I have these teeth in the wrong place.” “Il take care of that,” Coyote told her, “so come on.” They started off for Coyote’s house and walked all one day. When evening came, Coyote build a brush shelter for the two of them. He put sage into it for a bed. “Now

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