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A young woman died and then went to sleep after
she died
·
Someone then woke her up and told her that she should
not sleep because she is dead
o
She realized that she was in a grave box and
that her grandfather was the one that woke her up
·
They both traveled back to the village, but the
girl did not recognize it anymore
·
Once in the village, someone told her to go into
a house
o
She enters the house and is promptly beat by a
woman with a piece of wood
·
The woman ran back to her grandfather, and then
he informs her that they are in the village of dog shades and what she
experienced is what living dogs feels
·
In another village, they see a man that has grass
growing through his joints
o
He can move, but he cannot get up
o
That was his punishment for pulling up and chewing
grass stems
·
The grandfather disappears so the girl follows a
trail to another village
·
There is a river blocking her path, which consisted
of the tears of the people on earth that cry for the dead
o
The girl started to cry when she realized she
couldn’t cross, which is when a bundle of straw floated down the river and gave
her a chance to cross
·
The girl reaches the village, and she is lead to
a house where her grandmother meets her and offers her water
o
The grandmother offers the girl a lot of things
that are offered in the festival of the dead in Yukon
·
The girl’s grandfather was her guide because he
was the last person she thought of before dying
Biya River. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Bibliography: This story can be found here. Story source: Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).
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