LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth?
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His wife wants some flowers
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He wants to make his wife happy
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The tree has been growing forever
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He wants to escape Sky-World
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -What does this creation myth explain about the Iroquois dance rituals? Iroquois dance to worship the moon. They dance in the same direction as the sun to honor the creation of the earth.
Detailed explanation-2: -These two brothers, as they grew up, represented two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these the right and the wrong. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the upright man and the devious man, the right and the left. The twins had creative powers.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the rule about the Great Tree? No one was to mark or mutilate it.
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