Yesterday for Social Studies my class read an article that included some legends regarding various mountains in Utah. One legend spoke of a tribe who chose to sacrifice a woman, Utahna, to the mountain god Timpanogos so he'd stop making it famine and such. While Utahna was hiking to the highest cliff to throw herself from, she ran into Red Eagle, a man from another tribe, who fell in love with her instantly and pretended to be Timpanogos so she wouldn't off herself. They married and lived happily until Red Eagle was attacked by a bear and Utahna figured out that her husband wasn't the godly specter he pretended to be. So she ended up plunging herself off a cliff anyway! And then Red Eagle pined away next to her body until he died, too.
Such a heartwarming story.
One of the comprehension questions that accompanied the article asked, "Why did Red Eagle pretend to be the mountain god Timpanogos?"
And this is what one of my boys wrote: "cause Red knew she was a hot one"
I'm still laughing.
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