Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:24 pm
Harbal wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:55 pm
Walker wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:25 pm
Harbal, we tolerate the noise and await the evolution of the backstory in your response to the Brave swimming in the lake,
I don't really have a response other than to say it was a shame the Indian Brave (aboriginal red skin) had to drown in pursuit of his heart's desire.
Not being privy to the whole story or any side discussions perhaps regarding it, am I guessing accurately as to say that the story of the paddleless canoe is something along the lines of an 'American Indian' (for lack of the most appropriate/correct designation) being
stranded in a canoe without a paddle to get to his destination (something his heart desired) and therefore
gets out of the canoe to swim to it, only to drown? If so, I have to say the story sounds very interesting to me. I'll be interested in hearing the final moral of the story and what the 'American Indian' should or shouldn't have done.
But you have been privied. Here's the whole story, again. It does not mention being stranded in a canoe. It does not mention egressing a canoe. It says that the Brave and the maiden lived at opposite ends of the lake, and we can assume they lived on dry land.
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Obviously, the Brave lad was obsessed. His obsession was his destination and the irrationality of his obsession carried him away to the happy hunting grounds, irrationality being a personal characteristic of his which probably would have made him a lousy chief. He should have listened and paid attention to the signs, such as the sign of the Great Spirit making his father lock up the paddles.
He locked them up by putting them under guard, since their only locks were knots and The Brave wasn't so simple that he couldn't untie a knot, however in his irrational and impatient state of mind that suggested to him that he could swim across the big lake, he might not have been able to untie a new, complex knot and get to the paddles. Although the chief considered this, for he knew his son better than anyone, he took the extra precaution of posting guards around the paddles. Not only was he a rational chief who knew the importance of a tribal alliance through marriage, he was also a fierce chief, old testament fierce, so the guards knew not to sleep at their posts.
Why was The Brave so obsessed? Well, we can speculate. He was likely bedazzled by the maiden who had recently realized the full exent of her power. She had seen her effect upon a man of position in the world. She may have been a natural born entertainer, like an actress.
