. The story of corn and the westward migration. Proser-pine. She was restored to her mother, and therewas great rejoicing in all the earth. Vegetation atonce began to take on a new life, and the grainbegan again to grow and the fruit to ripen. Butwhen Ceres saw her daughter she feared one thing—that she had eaten food in Plutos kingdom. Shequestioned Proserpine, who replied that she hadeaten only some pomegranate seeds. *Alas! cried Ceres, you must remain with Plutoin the realm of darkness one half of your time.* Thus the seasons are accounted for. While Pro-serpine is with Pluto, Ceres is sad
. The story of corn and the westward migration. Proser-pine. She was restored to her mother, and therewas great rejoicing in all the earth. Vegetation atonce began to take on a new life, and the grainbegan again to grow and the fruit to ripen. Butwhen Ceres saw her daughter she feared one thing—that she had eaten food in Plutos kingdom. Shequestioned Proserpine, who replied that she hadeaten only some pomegranate seeds. *Alas! cried Ceres, you must remain with Plutoin the realm of darkness one half of your time.* Thus the seasons are accounted for. While Pro-serpine is with Pluto, Ceres is sad and there is novegetation and it is winter. But when mother and Mythical Stories of Our Food-Giving Plants 21 daughter are together the earth is covered with thegifts of Ceres, and it is summer throughout the Indian Myth: Mondamin and is well known that the bread of the Indian camefrom maize, or Indian corn. The story of Mon-damin as told in Hiawatha is the Indian myth ofthe origin of maize. When Hiawatha was a little. From Hiawatha Industrial Reader- Then the ripened ears he gathered^Gave the first Feast of Mondamin 22 The Story of Corn boy, he lived in a beautiful country near the BigSea Water/ It was customary for all Indian boys,when approaching manhood, to fast for severaldays in order that the Great Spirit might tell themwhat spirit would be their guide through when it came time for Hiawatha to gothrough his season of fasting he went far away intothe forest, and there alone he built his wigwam andbegan his fasting. Late in the afternoon of thefourth day of his fasting he was faint and weak,and as he lay on the floor of his wigwam a beautifulyouth in garments of greens and yellows of manyshades, with green plumes in his yellow hair, cameand stood before him and spoke to him: From the Master of Life descending,I, the friend of man, Mondamin,Cdme to warn you and instruct you,How by struggle and by laborYou shall gain what you have pray
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