Natural Supernatural Kiowa

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The Natural and the Supernatural Kiowa The Way to Rainy Mountain, a collection of mythos and generation focuses on Momaday and how he traces his ancestral roots back to the beginning of the Kiowa tribe. The collection concentrates on a series of oral stories from Kiowa tradition written down, where the stories link together and narrate the entire life from begginning to the end of the Kiowa tribe. The oral stories that are passed down involve many supernatural and natural instances. In many myths, supernatural instances , or a force beyond scientific understanding, are very common to see. By definition, anything that exists naturally is not supernatural. Myths about people transforming into werewolves or vampires are seen to many people as a supernatural cause. Unlike those stories, the mythos involved with the Kiowa tribe involves the supernatural and the natural together. The oral stories of the Kiowa tribe in The Way to Rainy Mountain may seem supernatural to modern society, but to the Kiowa, it was natural. In The Way to Rainy Mountain, the relation between the actual myth and Momaday's personal response shows how the bridge between the natural and supernatural falls close together. Unlike many myths, The Way to Rainy Moutain has a lot of connection with the natural world to the supernatural world. In the first chapter "The Setting Out", much supernatural occurances appear within the stories of the Kiowa tribe. In chapter 1, section XI, there is a story about two brothers. It is around winter, food was scarce, and the brothers were hungry. One time, one of the brothers found fresh meat on the ground outside, and the brother decided to eat it regardless of what his other brother said. He is amazed that something great has happeed and will honor it by eating the meat. Out of ignorance, even though the other brother said it wasn't smart, the brother ate the
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