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| Eagle, King of the Birds |
The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder
- Whenever lightning is mad he becomes destructive and burns and destroys land and homes
- Thunder is lightnings mother and she yells at him when he becomes destructive but it usually doesn't make him stop
The Bush Cow and the Elephant
- They did not like each other and were fighting for domaninance
- They fought in the middle of town and were scaring the people
- a monkey sees the fight and goes to get someone to stop it but forgets on the way
- eventually he remembers and the towns king kills the two animals
The Cock Who Caused a Fight Between Two Towns
- Another story about jealousy
- A man was jealous of two brothers so he started a fight between them by claiming one stole the others pet to kill
- the two brothers and their towns fought and then the king stopped it and found that the third man had started the fight out of jealousy and he was sentenced to death
The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise
- The hippo always served all the animals dinner
- He then started saying if you did not know his name you could not eat
- One tortoise said what happens if I know your name and the hippo says he will go down to the water in shame
- The tortoise finds out his name from one of his wives and the hippos then live in the water from then on.
Why Dead People are Buried
- A king sent a dog out with a message on how to revive people after death
- He got distracted and forgot to spread the message
- So the king sent a sheep to do it but he spread the wrong messages, that people should just be buried at death and it just stuck
Of the Fat Woman Who Melted Away
- More jealousy stories
- The fat wife could not go out in the sun but the other wife nagged her until she did
- She melted outside but her toe was saved so she could be reborn
- The husband returned the other wife to her parents who sold her as a slave to repay him his dowry for their daughters jealous behaviors
Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes
- The moon used to provide for an old woman and the people got mad because the moon was getting thin
- They stopped the woman from taking from the moon and she eventually died
- the moon was scared and stayed in the sky from here on out getting fat and thin over and over
How the Tortoise Overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus
- the tortoise tricked them into thinking he was strong by tying a rope to a rock and a tree and pretending it was him
- They both wanted to befriend him after that thinking he was strong
- So he went to the water and his son went to land with the elephant
- this is why tortoises live on land and water
The King and the 'Nsiat Bird
- The king wanted to marry this beautiful bird but she had a curse of having twins which is not allowed
- when she had her twins she and her family ran away to the tree tops to avoid being killed for having twins
Concerning the Hawk and the Owl
- The hawk took a baby owl to eat but since the parents were so quiet when he took the child he became nervous of what they were going to plot as revenge
- He decided to return the baby owl and get a baby chicken instead
- the chickens were very loud and crazy so he knew they would not plan revenge over the night so he continues to feed on chicks forever
The 'Nsasak Bird and the Odudu Bird
- These birds are competing to see who can go the longest without eating
- The Nsasak bird sneaks out of his cage at night and eats while the other bird eventually dies
- The Nsasak bird wins the title of the best bird in the land
The Election of the King Bird
- The birds had a fight to establish dominance and the eagle won
- now eagles are seen as a sign of good or bad luck depending on their flight patterns and help with hunting when you wear their feathers
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