Don't play with fire!.
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The storytelling part of the chapter is about an old man, his wife and their child. The mother feeds her boy and he goes outside and returns for more; repeating this several times he returns with an enemy. The enemy has a request for food in order to feed all the people in his tribe or he will kill them. The old man has a solution and explains the plan to his wife. The wife burns fat pretending to make food for the tribe, and the boy just acts normal. The old man releases the horses up stream and calls out with the voice of a bird. The woman grabs the boy and throws the fat on the tipi and the tribe burning them all. The family escapes.
The historian states that a fire accidentally destroyed a tipi. The tipi was decorated with battle pictures; this was called Do-giagya guat. The tipi belonged to the family of the great chief Dohasan.
Momaday, in his own words, describes the sky and how it looks like fire when he was at the Rainy Mountain Cemetery.
When I was in the first grade I was very curious about things. My mom would always tell me not to stick my finger or any other small object in an outlet. When my parents were gone and my brother was watching me, although not doing a good job, I took a straw and eased it through a small hole of an outlet in my room. When the straw caught fire I then realized why I was not to do such a stupid thing.
Freaking out, I shook the straw trying to blow out the fire; it wasn’t working. The straw was melting burning my hand. I dropped the straw and stepped on it. During all the commotion I had forgotten about being barefoot. The fire was out when I removed my foot, but my foot was the problem now. I hopped down the hallway on my right foot to the bathroom. I placed my foot in the bathtub and ran cold water up to my ankle to ease the burn. I then leaned over to the medicine cabinet and grabbed an ointment for burns. My foot was feeling better in a few hours, and my parents never found out. So from my experience I’m telling you not to stick anything in the outlet.
Putting fire to the tipi for security of the family, or not meaning to burn something at all, or even describing how something may look like fire shows how much power fire has and why it’s so important to the Kiowa.