The Origin of Fire
Tlingit
Long ago, in the days of the animal people, Raven saw a fire far out at sea. He tied a piece of pitch to Chicken Hawk’s bill. He said, “Go out to the fire, touch it with the pitchwood, and bring it back.” Chicken Hawk did so. The fire stuck to the pitchwood and he brought it back to Raven. Then Raven put the fire into the rock and into the red cedar. Then he said, “Thus shall you get your fire—from this rock and from this red cedar.” The tribes did as he told them.