The second half of the Marriage Tales unit continued on with the same ideas that the
first one held. The biggest factor in this unit is the relationship depicted
between man and animal. These stories are still a little off putting to me
since they have sexual relationships with each other. Another component that is
similar in both the first and second half of the unit is the idea of
reincarnation. Both the bison and the deer would keep the bones of the dead and
bring the dead back to life. This was particularly interesting in the story The Youth Who Joined the Deer. A man married into a family of deer who could change
form to become human. What was so interesting about this story was the fact
that the deer would hunt and kill each other for food. After they would eat the
meat they would throw the bones of the dead into water and the deer would come
back to life.
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