My name is Dr. Ana Breelander and I am the Millie B. Duckworth Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics at Laurel College. That's a lot to live up to back home in Tuckus Falls. Most of my family still believes linguistics is something dirty you do with your mouth.
My passion is primarily in native tongues and pre-industrial tribes, but whose isn't? I have assembled a collection of creation myths and parables from around the world. Most of which wouldn't interest you if I read them bare naked at a frat party while fondling myself with a laser pointer (a function of the technology that is highly underrated).
Cultures, both young and old, are revealed to us in these stories and fables. Many myths simply explain the world around us, while fables also have a moral ending or expose some human foible. The best of these, in my opinion, do both. Everyone knows Aesop, but every culture produces myths and fables to explain the unknown in our behavior and in our world. And there are some pretty strange behaviors out there in the world.
In 1982, my group of cultural archaeologists stumbled upon the Introit clan of upper New Guinea. You probably remember the National Geographic expose on it (I was the one exchanging nuts with a matron tribeswoman). Since that time I have exclusively compiled the tribe's stories, which I find to be the most interesting and erotic myths ever told. Though the beauty of their fables are often lost in translation, their candid viewpoints are unmatched in world literature. Plus, they're excellent icebreakers on a blind date.
Years of isolation and self-absorption had a significant impact on the Introits. Gatherers primarily, the clansmen spend much of their time bragging about their masculine conquests while the women gather daily to swap stories about their men. We found most of them to be eloquent orators and very open sexually.
Academicians have labeled these stories as Introitian fables, though most are simply myths. Nevertheless, the Introitus stories give us insight into the culture of the people themselves. Here the first few fables which have been translated to date.
The Coming of Man and Woman
Sky and Earth lived peacefully together for many years. Sky covered Earth and protected her, while she in turn allowed him to believe that she needed to be protected from something. (The text goes on to say that some believe that they were both created from spillage in a cosmic copulation between Master Egg and an alien chicken, but it's not clear which produced the spillage first).
One day Comet fell across Sky, swishing her tail in front of him. Sky was enraptured and soon began to pull away from Earth to follow the comet's path. Earth noticed his attention toward the intruder and became green with envy. She realized that Sky had never looked at her in this way. As she could not contain him, she searched for a way to recapture his attention.
Earth began to turn and act as though she barely noticed Sky. As he glanced back to see her rotating seductively, she created a fog along her valleys to shade his view of her. Intrigued by this and now oblivious to the hurdling Comet, he began to blow the mists away to again look at her. Higher and faster the mists blew over her until they were clouds riding over her in thin veils. Sky grew fascinated with the covering and uncovering of his longtime companion.
But Earth wasn't done. She began to undulate underneath his breath, the wind whipping her soil sending it tumbling to and fro. As his blowing increased, she opened herself up and he rushed to her. He fell upon her and the force of their copulation shook the galaxy. Each of the stars and planets looked to see the entwined pair clumsily groping each other. For days they grappled in passionate embrace and most of the heavenly bodies eventually lost interest in watching them. But Sun and Moon being the prudish pair became annoyed at them. Sun tried to separate them with a blast of heat, while Moon hurled a wedge of ice towards them. Just as the darts struck the lustful pair, Sky lept off of Earth, rubbing his sore horizon. Earth felt an intense pain and realized that the ice wedge had lodged above her in the clouds, while the Sun's heat had landed in her opened crevices.
Sky and Earth tried to come together again but each time Sky lay upon the clouds or blew them across her, the heat would melt the ice wedge and produced great rains. The rains kept him from merging with her as Earth would become soaked and Sky could take no grasp of her. Dejected he withdrew, only to become frustrated and try once more. The harder he tried to get to her, the harder the rains fell, blocking his advances. When his frustration peaked, he manipulated himself until his seed fell to the earth as flakes, and droplets of it still cover the tops of mountains.