"Marta Randall - Some Inguruki Myths" - читать интересную книгу автора (Randall Marta)

was
made He dug a great hole in Bear's path. Bear tumbled
into it and Snow Wolf taunted him. Bear grew as
his anger grew, until he burst up from the trap,
scooped up Snow Wolf, ate him whole, and went
home.
Raven found Snow Wolf's blood on the snow.
She took it up and breathed on it, and it told her
what had happened. She went to Bear's house and
said, "This will not do, brother. I need Snow Wolf
and you must give him back."
Bear said, "I won't do it until he promises to
leave me alone." Inside Bear's stomach, Snow
Wolf laughed.
Raven said, "If I give you something so that you
will always see Snow Wolf's night tricks, will you
give him back?"
Bear agreed. Raven fashioned two perfect balls
of snow. She blew on them so that they glowed,
and took them back to Bear. She showed Bear
how to hold them up before him, one in each paw,
to light his way.
Bear was pleased and vomited up Snow Wolf,
but Raven's gift made Snow Wolf furious with
jealousy. He raised his leg and pissed on both of
the white balls. One shrank more than the other, but
both had great dirty spots on them from the piss.
Bear flung them into the sky and ran after Snow
Wolf. Snow Wolf fled, laughing, back to his kamak
where he was safe. In his anger Bear took up his
kamak on his great broad back and moved it to the
very end of the world, where the mountains hold
up the Big Empty. This made Raven so mad that
she refused to lay with Snow Wolf, which made
Snow Wolf angry, and for a long time they fought.
They scooped dirt from the land to throw at each
other, and where they scooped there were valleys.
They piled stones together to make walls against
each other, and where they piled the stones there
were mountains. Raven pissed in the snow to wash
away Snow Wolf's mountains, and her piss
became the great rivers. Snow Wolf shat in the
river to make dams, and the shit became green
islands, and between them in their anger they made
 Snow One day while flying around Uruk looking for
mischief, Raven found an apple tree growing in a
Wolf
remote valley. Raven loved apples but knew that if
make
she kept any in the lodge, Snow Wolf would sniff