9/6/12

In my myth about the Devils Tower, there are supernatural powers involved. The supernatural powers were when the seven young girls prayed to the rock to grow, and it had. It grew so much that they became what's known as the Pleiades. This myth is sacred to several Native American Plain Tribes such as Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Kiowa. The myth is about how seven young girls where playing out in the distance when a bear started to chase them. The seven young girls ran but realized that the bear was catching up. The girls sat down on a rock and prayed for the rock to grow, and the rock did. The bear could not get to the girls, but had shredded the side of Bear Tower and had left several claw marks. The girls where safe, but the tower kept growing, and shoved the girls to the stars. They seven girls became a cluster of stars knows as Pleiades. The myth was shared to the Native Tribes of the plains to show that there is life within all things and objects that do listen. That the ancestors of their tribes are listening and will make sure that some how you will be safe, no matter how large the problem is. The Plain Tribes have kept this myth going on for many years, to tell the story to their sons and daughters about how Devils Tower (Bear Tower) became to be. They tell the myth to keep the myth alive, and to make sure that the tradition of telling this myth stays alive.