LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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is his mother’s favorite
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creates more animals
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kills their mother
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is a better archer
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Detailed explanation-1: -The right-handed twin represents life, light, and day, while the left-handed twin represents war, torture, men, death, and night. How did the animals come about? Discuss different purposes of animals. The animals came about when the twins created them out of clay and brought them to life.
Detailed explanation-2: -picked out the deer antler, and with one touch he destroyed his brother. And the left-handed twin died, but he died and he didn’t die. The right-handed twin picked up the body and cast it off the edge of the earth. And some place below the world, the left-handed twin still lives and reigns.
Detailed explanation-3: -These two beings rule the world and keep an eye on the affairs of men. The right-handed twin, the Master of Life, lives in the Sky-World. He is content with the world he helped to create and with his favorite creatures, the humans. The scent of sacred tobacco rising from the earth comes gloriously to his nostrils.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the right handed twin buried his mother he tried to go back to his grandmother, but she told him not to come back anymore. He got furious and killed his grandmother with an ax. He cut off her head and threw it to the sky and it became the moon.