- So according to the Belle Coola, we live in the middle world.
- 1. Home of Afraid of Nothing or Home of “Our Woman”
- 2. House of the Sun
- 3. Earth
- 4. Ghost Land
- 5. Home of those who die a second time
- A woman is the created according to the Bella Coola. That’s really unique, but it also makes sense to me.
- Though she is supposedly a great warrior and the creator, when Afraid of Nothing visits earth, it causes death and illness. That seems to contrast with everything we known about her so far.
- The swans saved the chief’s daughter
- Some of these tales seems familiar to others that I know and some seem similar to each other.
- The beaver seems to make an appearance in nearly all of the stories so far.
- The raven was sneaky and cruel and stole the beaver’s water
- “When night came, Raven took the baby by the heel and shook all his bones out. Then he crept into the skin and pretended to be the baby. But at night he stole out of the baby's skin and became Raven.” This is beyond creepy.
- The raven sounds like a prevalent animal.
- Women appear to be more important in this culture than they were in some of the ones that I previously read about.
- The fox seems to be regarded as clever across cultures.
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