Mastodawn

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "kah-luh-guh"

A long time ago several young men made up their minds to find the place where the sun lives and see what the sun is like. They got ready their bows and arrows, their parched corn and extra moccasins and started out toward the east. At first they met tribes they knew,

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but as they continued onward, they came to tribes they had only heard about, and at last, after many nights and days, to tribes of which they had never heard of. There was a tribe of root eaters and another of acorn eaters with great piles of acorn shells near their houses. In one tribe they found a sick man dying, and were told it was custom there when a man died to bury his wife in the same grave with him. They did not believe them and so waited until he was dead,

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when they saw his friends lower the body into a great pit, so deep and dark that from the top they could not see the bottom. Then a rope was tied around the woman's body, together with a bundle of pine knots, a lighted pine knot was placed into her hand and she was lowered into the pit to die there in the darkness after the last pine knot was burned. They watched the flame of the burning pine knot she held become a tiny red ember as she went lower and lower into the dark,

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then disappeared completely. The young men disapproved, but they were the strangers there and had no business in interfering about the customs of other tribes and so traveled on, until they came at last to the sunrise place where the sky reaches down to the ground. There they found that the sky was an arch or vault of solid rock hung above the earth and was always swinging up and down, so that when it went up, there was an open place like a door between the sky and ground and

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when it swung back the door was shut. The sun came out of this door from the east and climbed along on the inside of the arch. It had a human figure but was too bright for them to see clearly and too hot to come very near. They waited until the sun had come out and then tried to get through while the door was still open, but just as the first one was in the doorway the rock came down and crushed him. The other six were afraid to try it and as they were now at the end of the world

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they turned around and started back again, but they had traveled so far that they were old men when they reached home.

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