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

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them out with his sensitive nose and eat them all,
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leaving none for her. She gathered the apples and
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pressed their juice into a barrel, which she carried
back to the lodge and covered with fragrant pine
boughs and hid around the hill behind the kamak.
Then she became busy and forgot about the barrel
of juice.
The winter came and Snow Wolf grew bored, as
he often did, and annoyed Raven with his constant
complaining. He followed Raven from one end of
the lodge to the other, carping and bellyaching and
getting in the way. Especially he said he was bored
with the dried meat and stored fat that they had to
eat through the months of winter. Raven was bored
too, but she remembered the barrel of apple juice
that she had hidden during the autumn.
When Snow Wolf was asleep, Raven crept from
their bed and went around the hill to where she had
hidden the barrel. She dug it out of the snow and
dragged it against the side of the lodge so that the
juice could melt a little bit, and when a cup full of
the juice was liquid, she drank it.
It was sweet and heavy and bitter all at once,
and it made her throat and stomach burn and it
made her head very happy. Raven drank all the
juice in the cup and curled up by the fire and made
up songs until she fell asleep.
When Snow Wolf awoke he knew something
was different but, as usual, he didn't know what it
was. He prowled around the inside of the lodge,
knocking things over and shouting until Raven
brought him a cup of the applejack.
Snow Wolf drank the applejack and became so
happy that he rolled around on the floor of the
lodge, singing and shouting and trying to fuck the
furs on his bed. At first Raven thought this was
very funny, but soon Snow Wolf began to annoy
her. She made some dough and put it into his
hands.
"Here," she said. "Sit quietly and make people."
Snow Wolf sat by the fire and made people out
of dough. But because he was very drunk, he made
Snow Every time Raven lay with Snow Wolf, she gave
birth to something impressive: the winds, trees,
Wolf
insects, ice. One day she gave birth to the igaruku
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