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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,
glowing. Raven didn't have time to gather them all,
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.