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The Raven Steals the Light- (notes3) (Pg.41)- The Raven and the Big Fisherman - The Raven = the most powerful of all creatures who lived during myth-time. - “In myth-time were their other Ravens, the ordinary type that we have today, who travel in pairs and chat constantly with each other in their intricate, versatile language”; “or did he have no one to talk to but himself”? - “Right now, in this story, he is muttering to himself as he thinks “dull beach, all pebbles, hard on the feet, no storm for the past week, nothing washed up on the foreshore fit to eat, rainy again, lonely, hungry, wet, bored”. (Pg.42) - He then saw a magnificent house in the green forest, the entrance was closed but there was smoke coming out the of the “smoke-hole”; he clung to the house and the “most puzzling scene was revealed to him”. - The house seemed to be unoccupied despite being so great in size; there were no children running around, no aunts or uncles, and no married couples inside – “there was no early morning activity that begins the day in an extended family dwelling”. - However, there was a “solitary woman” stirring the fire with her tongs, placing the hot rocks from the firepit into a box full of water; the water began to steam. - There was only one sleeping “alcove” in the entire house; the curtain closing the alcove was thrown back; “from behind it stepped the biggest man the Raven or anyone else had ever seen”. - The man went to one corner of the house where there was light and came back with a huge storage box. (Pg.43) - He put the box in front of him, opened the lid, and called for him wife to bring him something to drink; he asked for tang which means seawater in Haida. - Custom in Haida in the old days: “before undertaking any great ritual or entering any great risk/supernatural aid, they purify themselves by fasting, sexual abstinence, and by the external and internal cleansing of the body”. - Skin scrubbed with water and urine: drinking warm seawater. - The Raven watched the wife bring a container of steaming brine; man swallowed the entire container of seawater at a single gulp and then started vomiting “a great River of seawater and half-digested food”. - When he stopped, he rinsed his mouth with more seawater; he put a hook down his throat with a rope attached to one side. (Pg.44) - The hook touched the bottom and he pulled out a giant halibut = good food. - The fisherman then started packing his clothes and told his wife that he planned to be absent for several days. (Pg.45) - His wife started preparing food for his journey. - The Raven watched him load his canoe and paddle; when the canoe disappeared behind the first headland, the Raven stepped out of his hiding place. - Instead of appearing as a black bird, he appeared as the guise of the fisherman. - He went to the fisherman’s house; he changed his form.

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Raven appeared before his wife, greeted her, and gave an explanation of her husband’s sudden reappearance. - He said he’ll go to the island later; asked for more seawater to go halibut fishing again. (Pg.46) - the Raven went into the corner of the huge house and repeated the process of the fisherman and took a halibut fish out of his chest. - The Raven then got bored and looked for more entertainment. - He was happy with the fisherman’s wife as she listened and followed all instructions. - The real fisherman realized he was in danger at the second headland. (Pg.47) - Using all his strength he managed to escape the danger and returned home instead. - When he got home, he saw the Raven disguised as him, hugging his wife. - The fisherman knew it was the Raven in his bed with his wife, so he got a fish club and attacked the “stranger”. - The Raven changed form into a black bird again and the fisherman battered him against the walls, roof, and floor until all that remained of him was a lump of blood and crushed feathers. - Then he asked his wife to clean up the mess and throw the remains of the Raven in the toilet and she did so dutifully. (Pg.48-49) - life at the big fisherman’s house returned to normal. - The Raven was in the toilet as the wife went to go use the toilet, he touched her lady parts, and she went screaming to her husband. - The fisherman returned and brought some friends with him: the group dragged the Raven out of the toilet, tied it with a fishing line and tossed it in their canoe. - They paddled him far out to sea and dumped him overboard. (Pg.53)- The Raven with a Broken Beak -

Broken body at the bottom of the seabed where fisherman disposed of troublesome creatures Transformed into a sleek spring salmon and swam up to the world he was the most familiar with A Shaana otherwise known as a killer whale shut his teeth on him and he was in the belly of the whale. Now took form as a Raven again and starts chewing a hole in the side of the whale as he notices food an octopus tentacle, but it was laced with a hook- barb that stabbed his beak Flew from the fisherman to help find something to recover his broken beak Now he took form of a little man and spent the evening with the fisherman who had little to none, knowledge about the sea Transformed back to a Raven and left the fisherman with a present a whale that ended up on the shore.

Nanasimgit and His wife

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Wanted to search for a wife who lived inside the sea

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1 year later behind a small cloud was his wife that was so beautiful that people wept

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His wife slipped into the sea and the killer whale took her

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Nanasimgit when looking for her and discovered the whale was trying to marry her

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He made a plan and escaped with his wife nowhere to be seen

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His grandma with skin as white as snow just sitting and smiling...