Monday, June 27, 2011

For fun


Before I respond to the demo, here is the myth I wrote, which is based on a myth my son, Sawyer, actually told me, and often changes. Here is the picture of the constellation. And here is the story:

This constellation is “Sawyer Becomes Human.”

This depicts the famous scene from the myth of Sawyer the monkey-child where Sawyer removes his tail to join his human mother’s family. We can see him holding the tail aloft , about to bite into it, in this constellation. As we will recall, after the great Monkey Battle of Stroud’s Run, in which both of Sawyer the monkey-child’s warrior grandmothers were killed, Sawyer found himself alone in a strange land with no monkey kin to care for him. Being a resourceful and advanced monkey-child, he found himself a new human family with Lydia the mother, Michael the father, and Fionn the tormentor-brother. During this scene in the myth, Sawyer cuts off his own monkey-tail and eats it in order to transition to his human form. He then shaves his monkey fur. He finds the burial place of Lydia the Mother’s own father (the great Grandfather) and unearths him in order to remove his hair and glue it to his own head. At this point he presents himself to Lydia the Mother and is accepted as part of the human family. He is dubbed by the older brother and arch rival, Fionn, Sawyer the Destroyer.

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