"Marta Randall - Some Inguruki Myths" - читать интересную книгу автора (Randall Marta)Some Inguruki Myths
by Marta Randall Rave Once, when Snow Wolf and Raven trekked through the Big Empty, Snow Wolf grew bored so n Raven made him a toy. She scooped ice and snow make and fashioned the ball of the world, but it fell apart s the in her hands. So she breathed on the world and the world warmth of her breath sank deep into the heart of the ball, and it turned brown and green and white and and stayed together. the Snow Wolf liked his new toy. After he played stars with it, he demanded that Raven carry the world back to their lodge, their kamak, while he took a nap. Raven took the world up in her beak, but on the way she dropped it. The warm heart of the world splintered into a million small, sharp pieces that sprayed up into the Big Empty and hung there, so she dipped out a single beak-ful and re-built the world's shell around that small scoop of frozen stars. Then she flew on to their kamak. Snow Wolf never noticed the crack in the skin of the world, and Raven knew he wouldn't. But he was furious that there were shining things in the Bigt Empty and demanded that Raven make him a light to see them by. While Snow Wolf slept, Raven rolled the stars together into a glowing ball which lit all of the Big Empty. Snow Wolf searched from one side of the Big Empty to the other but didn't find a single star. Disgusted, he threw the ball away. When it landed it shattered into a million stars again. Snow Wolf was furious. He demanded that Raven make the light again, which she did. She does it each morning so that Snow Wolf can search through the Big Empty for the truth. But he never finds it, because although he is Snow Wolf, Raven is always more clever than he. How They say that in the days when all the Deathless lived together in one land, Raven and Bear were Uruk great friends. Snow Wolf was jealous. |
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