How birds got their songs. (Misremembered stories #4)
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2024
- A children's story about trying your best and not cheating.
Winter seems to be ending early so I'd better get this out before I run out of time.
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the creator going "hmmm.. some of these bird are gonna be shit at singing..." got me laughing
Gorgeous story. And hands up everyone like me who went straight to listen to the Hermit Thrush’s vouve on RUclips. Sweet
It’s really cool that in this story, the humans had music before the birds. Usually in stories like this that I’ve heard from other cultures, it was humans who learned from the animals.
I'm incredibly fortunate to have grown up hearing stories like this. I wish everyone had that chance, I think they inspire a lot of wonder and reverence for the natural world.
The most valuable lesson I learned here is that the creator wears shoes.
Ngl, i teared up a little at the end. Where i live we have wood thrushes and they really do make me just stop and listen and I've only seen one once. Most of the times ive heard them it was at one specific park. Unfortunately a new subdivision development is being built next to thr park and county zoning regulations require some secondary emergency access so the solution was to build the E.A.R. through the park and they took out a wide swathe straight through the most biodiverse section full of quality habitat and uncommon native plants like southern nodding trulkium, tiger lilies, wild geraniums, and foamflower. I don't rhink i heard any wood thrushes this summer since they cut the trees.
I was able to get my state native plant society to do a plant rescue but the magic and spirit of that patch of woods will never return.
Really beautiful. Thank you for sharing
Sad. But now if I ever get to hear the Hermit Thrush’s song, i have decided it is a reminder of humility, and wisdom hard-gained
I really do love the idea that human songs inspired birdsong in this story, in other cultures its usually otherwise or something
good to know the creator doesn't have Imposter syndrome.
If you have any information on why this made me cry so hard please let me know.
Really appreciate all your videos.
So that's why penguins and ratites all just squawk! It all makes sense! Also, now that I think about it, it is kind of neat how so many birdsongs match the personalities of the species. My favorites are the loon calls.
I looked up what a hermit thrush sounds like and had always wondered what bird made that noise, because I had never seen it.
i have literally been waiting a year for this
I agree.
I enjoyed this story very much.
Thank you! You grant me a wish!
Wonderful story
A great story! Now I'm off to RUclips what a Hermit Thrush sounds like.
Great story, now Im going to go search hermit thrush song and see what happens
@2:18 i love your added comentary "awe heck how am i to come up with a thousand songs, and some are not going to be as good." lol. cute.
I really like the idea of multiple worlds on top of each other that animals and people travel between. In a lot of Balkan traditions- where my family is from- there are three worlds one is the heavens, like the sky world, the other two are earth and the underworld/underground. I know this one is very different but the idea resonates with me in that same place. I don’t know very well our stories of how the animals got their sounds/personalities but I hope to learn them sometime.
What a butifull story
Im wondering why ITs called “Misremembered’ stories. Dors this mean our narrator has cganged the stories from the originals? Due to the title of the video, i was expecting something silly or finny to happen- like halfway the story would be hijacked by made-up comedy or something. Im SO glad it wasnt . But -anyone know why they’re called: ‘Mis-remembered’ ? Im subscribing though. This narrator’s simple felivery was mesmerising. And I’ve been an amateur student of myth since i can remember. Beautiful
The name most likely comes from the fact that because a lot of native american myths were not recorded accurately, due to translation and cultural barriers between native storytellers and mostly white recorders, many retellings of native myths leave out a lot of detail and poetry present in the original, which this series attempts to correct. Hope this helps.
How lovely of you to explain for me. Thank you
It means that while the story is traditional, the wording and some of the embellishments are my own. I'm working from memory not from a script, and my memory necessarily deviates from the orthodox version of the proper storytellers.
@@MalcolmPLThanks for telling me Malcolm. I just am so grateful for your myth telling. Its so soft. And the tales themselves are marvellous as i put moving pictures to them as i listen. (Oh and - please excuse my stupid -and numerous-spelling mistakes. I just re-read my comment, and I’m thinking: ‘God, your lucky anyone replied Sooz”, lol. ). Thanks Malcolm
winter seems to be ending early..... (💔)
Thank you for this story! And very well told, Uwodu ❤ Out of curiousity, is your creator a "he"? Or is that due to gendered English language translation? I was wondering because in our language when speaking about the actions of another there is not he/she/it, but rather the use of the verb form that refers to "the other being". (also fyi I had to look up hermit thrush's song :)
To give the simple answer, yeah Creator is a he.
To give a more complex answer, he is envisioned as a physical person rather than some more abstract being of pure spirit. He was born, he has relatives, he's got a brother, his mother died in childbirth, his grandmother is called Sky Woman, et cetera.
On the language, it's my understanding that Mohawk language is highly gendered, there are a whole lot of prefixes for various situations.
@6:07 where did the condor and the albatross drop off? or the terror birds?!
I love this version - in the other versions I’ve heard (usually on bird channels) the story lacks the Sky World twist and the delivery is much less inspiring.
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Is this true?
Of course it is