“Some say the first medicine man was the bear. He knew what roots to dig to cure all sicknesses. Man wasn’t supposed to hunt him. They were hungry and killed him, tried to cook him and is body turned to ashes and rose up into mosquitoes. That’s why it is not wise to kill the mosquito.”
Quoting: Fancypantz America says, it’s people have the right to bear arms lol
The Tlingit story of the mosquito was passed down in similar integrity as other story’s to keep it unchanged for now until when it first was told.
The summary was in ancient times, humans were prey of huge hideous giants. Their favorite part was the heart of the prey. Humans discussed ways which they could kill the giants. One brave warrior suggested a solution.
In giants territory, he pretended to be dead. The warrior carried home was alone in the lair. He found the weakness of the giant, cue Hercules as the answer, and when the giant arrives he swung to kill him. As the giant laid dying he shouted
You have killed me but I will keep feasting on humans forever. Unnerved, the warrior cut him into tiny pieces and threw them onto the fire. Scattering the ash each tiny piece was transformed into a mosquito. Wonder what Rabbit Boy thinks of this.
The indigenous people in the Americas all agree that the mounds were built by the man eaters and were hybrid species. Science traces them as the Denisovans who was a huge race of people connected to the Neanderthals who both interbred with humans as there is significant trace of Denisova dna within the Native American dna today.
How elongated fit. Well. The Denisova skulls were described very different structure and would garner the smaller giants of 7’ were generational weeding out of species interbred.
A world left to stories global that notions of today have to cope with a strange environment not experienced.
