The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-03
SNAKE AND OTHER sronIEs.
Trieue Indians Version of How the
World Was Made.

u . 49, +s.-r 10 ~. Aro.ri,,ar Folk
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umoia University Yes'eruaS'
James Mooney OF the bureau Oh e'i'''o'-
ogy az Washington who is an authority
-, Indians and choir lerends read paper
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Many years ago aceoIu4lls 10 MI MO''-
ey, there lived tn the south shawnee
medicine man. whose name WAS Ground
boe.s Nfother The Sbawnees went TO war
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WIN '''S
ties Groundhogs Mother was take" pms
oner The Cherokee Indians would have
Killed Grouudhog's Mother but be obtain
Cd immunity bv promising TO kll the
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iOt '"e ci'7''
The uktena 1t seems, was a snake so long
that when its head started out early in the
r,,orri,,. +, ,.as moo, before its ten was
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III H'"'ioH' j ne "i"'''"'' va ''
diamond or hfiaahL when me uAtena
wore upon his forehead.
on an annointed dav Groundboe's Moth
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many Sherokees- IAeY met snakes Hos7'
tNFLlGS. ana OknCi ItDAi.tS 50 ti-Oi tIiDAE
maj The Cberol,ees trembled with fear
~ cro,,pdroe,'s 1fo,ber lauened VIM
corn and declared mar these roDtles
,,are moro nigD,ies beside tho ona which
h. bad nromised ia kin At last the
,,roat nl,tena yae nercef,ed coiled around
Tho ton of a mountain II was fast asleep.
ora Cronndbog,s Nother took advantage
Of this 70 build himself q series of fortress
Win a breastvvork of nine cones and a
mis- he ran nm the nountatn. ana with an
arrov, sbo, tbe qreat snake though he
boa,, which va his only vulnerable
mart Tben tho medicine man rushed down
tba mountain throw, himself into his fort
ana set the cones ON 0ro l. was none TOO
com The sernent mad .znirea in dreadful
agony covering the slopa with venom and
49,, ,3o,1 r. ,,endro came foodine
dour ,he nm 6ret hut il was hi,rned mn
~ ,ba Gro l,irdIea b,, C;rouronoots Moth
., rrhe blood follov,ed in a GREAT wave
but Groundbog's Mothers ditch carried it
80, The o,ae he ,Ilsfena l,uied ana
the vaet diamond in its head taken away
10 ser,e as a taIismon for the Cherokee
chiefs
Mr. Mooney told several other snake
s.orios uotaI1,, ONE abo,t enetee c,Iled
I,stntIi which had four feet. ana could
49, sto,,e az 1ono az "a nine Trees trunk
I,,t nora ~ the stories was quito so tbril-
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hequiildc. bciOl ,"e ISL Isi's''i't7 W. -
iooNl"s lioiI oFotV' $3.50 '',1 - -,
mass ol 'nuu ''0' MS ;" 49, ~
ca 10 people A. anu iV' '"9' 80 -
cfVdttu ii'ie 30 N"'isu wy -
sun MOON, LI7n' 49, - ~,
Death' anu t1eI AAeh NC 7,'N
the neat OF my oouy' "'sc,Hu W "r 80
BAKE that heap Oh s'inlS' nc W." % -i7 ~
opeyed' ana lhe e'Ilh was "V"'SN 70
Hame
Ana NeXhequnac crled ou' my son son
the God OF Water haste to eNtlhsplsh 'lis
vast conf1agration. rake my 'nuhue' anu
my hghthhs' ana my SON. 'He ios' NoN'
shall help you!
But the FROST Coo maze me EARN 700
stift and the Water COO Inaue u 700 We -
so NeNhequlriac sent inc Nlhd goa 10 oIH
light These two later gods We're 1ust aiiNe
but the Neon Goa stopped 10 eaten rae
BIT, Whch ne cralhmeu uhcooNeu mo ms
throat lie then hastened ail'r ms pto'h-
er, but has never since beeh apie TO over
take him. and moreover, ne mas never ie-
covered from the sickness caused by such
nasty meal ana remains pare 10 inns
day.
The work of Improvement however, pro-
ceeded. Vegetable and animal life were
created, and man was the GROWING work.
But the God of Hell. jealous of the deeds
in which he had spoken no part resolved
10 corrupt mankind; and to circumVent
him Nexhequiriac summoned all the inhab-
itants of the earth TO a great festival. The
God of He'll was there but Nexhequirac
ordered the musicians to create dscord
upon their instruments. and the sounds
were so terrible to the unwelcome deity
that he fed to the lower regions. from
which he never energies except at night, to
plague mankind with visions and dreadful