Internet & Home Phone Order Status. World Sikh Pop. Map 2004-02.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Discovery of Princess Kaguya The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語, Taketori Monogatari?) , also known as Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫, Kaguya Hime? , 赫映姫 or 輝夜姫), is a 10th-century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative[1][2] It primarily details the life of a mysterious girl called Kaguya-hime, who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. She is said to be from Tsuki-no-Miyako (月の都 "The Capital of the Moon"). Narrative[edit] Taketori no Okina takes Kaguya-hime to his home, Drawn by Tosa Hiromichi, c. 1600 One day, while walking in the bamboo forest, an old, childless bamboo cutter called Taketori no Okina (竹取翁?
Eventually, five princes came to Taketori no Okina's residence to ask for Kaguya-hime's hand in marriage. Realizing that it was an impossible task, the first prince returned with an expensive bowl, but after noticing that the bowl did not glow with holy light, Kaguya-hime saw through his deception. Kaguya-hime goes back to the Moon. WhaleBAR_450x592.jpg (JPEG Image, 450x592 pixels) Earth-maker myth. An elaborate Earth-Maker Story of Creation is a myth that comes from the Native Americans of California, also called the "Story of Creation. " This myth describes Earth-maker creating day and night, land, water, and all living things. Men and women were created out of soft clay into which Earth-Maker "breathed life".He also created the seas with his tears. The creation begins: “In the beginning there was no land, no light, only darkness and the vast waters of Outer Ocean where Earth-Maker and Great-Grandfather were afloat in their canoe...
Earth-Maker took soft clay and formed the figure of a man and of a woman, then many men and women, which he dried in the sun and into which he breathed life: they were the First People. " The entire narrative is printed in the book Almost Ancestors: The First Californians by Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Kroeber, Theodora, and Robert F.