ANTH 316gm Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thrombus
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People used to be closer to animals, could talk and switch back and forth between. Rabbit started kicking around a clot of blood, turns into a little boy. Takuskanskan = power of motion/ anything that moves. Eventually told him to go find other people, finds another village; girl falls in love with him. Other guy iktome / wicked spider man wanted the beautiful girl for himself. Everyone ganged up on rabbit boy b/c he was so kind and wise, he pretended to be disabilitated from the magic hoop, they tied him up and wanted cut him up and put him in soup. The sun went away, his chunks rose up and went back together. Iktome was jealous and said he could do the same, sang song wrong and died. Man and wife are hungry, man follows buffalo tracks to a blood clot. Tries to boil it, turns into a boy.