{"id":15439,"date":"2021-11-17T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=15439"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:12:16","slug":"conte-ojibwe-primacy-of-plants-35","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/ojibwe-tale-primacy-of-plants-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojibwe Tale: Primacy of Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"15439\" class=\"elementor elementor-15439\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b474581 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b474581\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f344605\" data-id=\"f344605\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e76149 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"4e76149\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Anichinabe mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0dcf0be\" data-id=\"0dcf0be\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c4df6a elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2c4df6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/fr\/article\/ojibwes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-19be689 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"19be689\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-99325db\" data-id=\"99325db\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30a4cc7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"30a4cc7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The term Ojibwe comes from <em>Utchibou<\/em>, name given to the XVII<sup>e<\/sup> century to a group who lived north of what is now Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.Here is one of their tales: The Primacy of Plants.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/\">Ojibway<\/a> were part of a series of very close, but distinct groups, occupying a territory located between the northeast of the bay <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/georgian-mythology\/\">Georgian<\/a> and eastern Lake Superior. These peoples who gathered near present-day Sault Ste. Mary are also called <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/\">Saulteaux<\/a>, a term that today refers primarily to the Ojibway peoples of northwestern Ontario and southeastern Manitoba.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Ojibwe The Primacy of Plants\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-be06d7d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"be06d7d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c94d8da\" data-id=\"c94d8da\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e3afbd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9e3afbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/ojibwe-tale-primacy-of-plants-35\/#The-Primacy-of-Plants\" >The Primacy of Plants<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-Primacy-of-Plants\"><\/span>The Primacy of Plants<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-855c961 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"855c961\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cda80a2\" data-id=\"cda80a2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d906b87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d906b87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Roses were once the most numerous and brilliantly colored of all<br \/>the flowers. Such were their numbers and such were the variety and<br \/>richness of their shades that they were common. No one paid much<br \/>pay attention to them; their beauty went unnoticed, their glory unsung.<\/p><p>Even when their numbers declined and their colors faded, no one<br \/>appeared to care. Cycles of scarcity and plenty had occurred. There<br \/>was no cause for alarm. There is degeneration and regeneration.<br \/>Plenty always follows scarcity.<\/p><p>But year after year roses became fewer in number. As the numbers<br \/>and wealth of the flowers diminished, the fatness of the rabbits<br \/>increased. Only the bear, and the bee, and the hummingbird were<br \/>aware that something was wrong.<\/p><p>The Anishnabeg felt that something was not quite right but they<br \/>couldn&#039;t explain it. They only knew that the bear was thinner and<br \/>that the bear&#039;s flesh was less sweet than formerly. The bears found<br \/>smaller quantities of honey and what they found was less delectable.<br \/>The bees and humming-birds found fewer roses. The Anishnabeg were<br \/>bewildered; the bears blamed the bees; the bees were alarmed. Aim<br \/>no one could do anything.<\/p><p>Eventually, one summer there were no roses. Bees hungry; humming birds<br \/>grew thin; the bears raged. In later years, that summer was known<br \/>as the Summer of the Disappearance of the Rose. At last, everyone<br \/>was alarmed. In desperation, a great meeting was called. Everyone was invited.<\/p><p>There were many days of discussion before the meeting decided to<br \/>dispatch all the swift to search the world for a single rose; and,<br \/>if they found one, to bring it back. Months went by before a humming-bird<br \/>lucky to discover a solitary rose growing and clinging to a mountainside<br \/>in a far off land.<\/p><p>The humming-bird lifted the faint and pallid rose from its bed<br \/>and brought it back. On arrival, medicine men and women immediately<br \/>tended the rose and in a few days restored the rose to life. When<br \/>he was well enough the rose was able to give an account of the destruction<br \/>of the roses.<\/p><p>In a voice quivering with weakness, the rose said, \u201cThe rabbits<br \/>ate all the roses. \u00bb <br \/>The assembly raised an angry uproar. At the word, the bears and<br \/>wolves and lynxes seized the rabbits by the ears and cuffed them<br \/>around. During the assault the rabbits&#039; ears were stretched and<br \/>their mouths were split open. The outraged animals might have killed<br \/>all the rabbits that day had not the rose interceded on their behalf<br \/>saying, \u201cHad you cared and watched us, we might have survived.<br \/>But you were unconcerned. Our destruction was partly your fault.<br \/>Leave the rabbits be. \u00bb<\/p><p>Reluctantly the angry animals released the rabbits. While the rabbits<br \/>wounds eventually healed, they did not lose their scars which remained<br \/>as marks of their intemperance. Nor did the roses ever attain their<br \/>form brilliance or abundance. Instead the roses received from<br \/>Nanabush thorns to protect them from the avarice of the hungry and<br \/>the intemperate.<\/p><p>Nanabush, in endowing the roses with thorns, warned the assembly,<br \/>\u201cYou can take the life of plants; but you cannot give them life. \u00bb<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anishinabe Mythology Wiki The term Ojibwe comes from Outchibou, a name given in the 17th century to a group that lived in \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25315,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15439\/revisions\/25315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}