Mythology and Folklore

  monkey king in a nutshell There once was a monkey who became increasingly powerful. Instead of using his power for good, he used it to take advantage of other people. He began to challenge gods and other immortal beings, paying no attention to the repercussions. He drank potions to make himself immortal and made the whole race of apes immortal too. Eventually, after waging wars and causing destruction, he became more powerful than everyone but god, so god punished him by making him a slave. He had to walk to each end of the earth doing chores, and after that, never caused trouble for anyone. moral of the money king don't be arrogant, you'll be humbled.  Ape King  Source:  DeviantArt Author's Note The initial story has an ape made of stone that rules over the land until he wants to become immortal. He goes and trains to become immortal under a master, and once he does, he shares the secrets and is exiled. He then becomes increasingly more violent and powerful, and t...

  Rabbit and Panther a rabbit wanted to build a lodge so that people would think he's a great medicine man  rabbit went to the top of a hill and build a wigwam and began to dance panther found rabbit's trail and hid to watch him and his wife rabbit sang a song that said he would never be caught by panther and went to hunt panther waited for him to return and sprung on him and ate him  Why Deer Never Eat Men rabbit asked bear what he wanted for food and he said acorns and fruit rabbit asked fish hawk what he wanted and he said the sucker, so he dove above the river and ate him  rabbit asked wolf what he wanted and he said deer, so he chased him with his robe on and could not catch him, but when he took it off he caught him and ate him  deer wanted to eat indians but they were too powerful, so he took his ribs and made them look like tusks. the indian still caught and ate him  since he was caught, the rabbit said they could only live on grass and twigs  ...

  The Earth Maker when the earth maker became conscious, he cried because he saw nothing  he took some of the substance he was sitting on and made earth, but it was loud and bare  he made a man and called it tortoise, then made two legged walkers  he sent tortoise to protect the world from evil spirits, but tortoise came to earth and made war so he took him back  next the earth maker sent hare, and the hare made the two legged walkers immortal the hare thought his grandmother was evil, and she heard him thinking that  they got up and started to go around the earth, and hare's grandmother told him not to look back  he did so anyway, and everything caved in  they went to the edge of the fire that surrounds earth  Creation the creator initially created the earth to be underwater and created fish first he realized he had no land for humans, so he pulled up some of the earth out of the water by the crawfish he created humans, called the Chitimacha...