Re: Conreligion

[Snipped a lot of interesting conreligious text]

> The Tokana believe that before the Universe began, nothing was
> different
> from anything else, and everything was nothing.  But then Old Eagle
> Woman
> entered through a hole in the nothingness and began beating her drum.
> The beats of her drum became Light, and the silences between the beats
> became Darkness, and that's how the Heartbeat of the Universe started.
> The mythical First Human Being, a character of indeterminate sex
> named Ahkaion, is credited with inventing most of the institutions of
> Tokana life (agriculture, animal husbandry, kinship, etc.).  Ahkaion
> is
> a prominent figure in Tokana folktales, where s/he is cast sometimes
> as
> a trickster character, and sometimes as a tragic hero(ine).
>
>
Wouldn't they worship the Old Eagle Woman as being the creator of
everything they know of?  Is there a reason why they don't?

> Matt.
>
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> Matt Pearson
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> UCLA Linguistics Department
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