{"id":22348,"date":"2022-08-07T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=22348"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:54:13","slug":"conte-comanche-manitous-springs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-kiowa-comanche\/cuento-comanche-manitous-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuento comanche: Manitous Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-kiowa-comanche\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMitolog\u00eda Kiowa-Comanche<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/TheLegendofManitousSprings-Comanche.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Kiowas emigraron a trav\u00e9s de la cuenca del r\u00edo Platte al \u00e1rea del r\u00edo Arkansas. All\u00ed se enfrentaron a la\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-kiowa-comanche\/\">Comanches<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 su historia: la Leyenda de Manitous Springs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"la Leyenda de Manitous Springs\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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\">Contenido<\/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=\"Alternar tabla de contenidos\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Palanca<\/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\/es\/mitologia-kiowa-comanche\/cuento-comanche-manitous-springs\/#The-Legend-of-Manitous-Springs\" >La leyenda de Manitous Springs<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-Legend-of-Manitous-Springs\"><\/span>La leyenda de Manitous Springs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>T\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-digital-norte-y-oeste\/\">Serpientes<\/a>, in common with all Indians, possess hereditary legends<br \/>\nto account for all natural phenomena, or any extraordinary occurrences<br \/>\nwhich are beyond their comprehension.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they have their legendary version of the causes which<br \/>\ncreated in the midst of their hunting grounds these two springs<br \/>\nof sweet and bitter water; which are also intimately connected with<br \/>\nthe cause of separation between the tribes of &quot;Comanche&quot;<br \/>\nand the &quot;Snake.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed corre la leyenda:<\/p>\n<p>Many hundreds of winters ago, when the cottonwoods on the Big River<br \/>\nwere no higher than an arrow, and the red men, who hunted the buffalo<br \/>\non the plains all spoke the same language, and the pipe of peace<br \/>\nbreathed its social cloud of Kinnik-Kinnick whenever two parties<br \/>\nof hunters met on the boundless plains&#8211;where, with hunting grounds<br \/>\nand game of every kind in the greatest abundance, no nation dug<br \/>\nup the hatchet with another because one of its hunters followed<br \/>\nthe game into their bounds, but, on the contrary, loaded for him<br \/>\nhis back with choice and fattest meat, and ever proffered the soothing<br \/>\npipe before the stranger, with well filled belly, left the village.<\/p>\n<p>It happened that two hunters of different nations met one day on<br \/>\na small rivulet where both had repaired to quench their thirst.<br \/>\nA little stream of water, rising from a spring on a rock within<br \/>\na few feet of the bank, trickled over it, and fell splashing into<br \/>\nthe river. To this the hunters repaired; and while one sought the<br \/>\nspring itself, where the water, cold and clear, reflected on its<br \/>\nsurface the image of the surrounding scenery, the other, tired by<br \/>\nhis exertions in the chase, threw himself at once to the ground,<br \/>\nand plunged his face into the running stream.<\/p>\n<p>The latter had been unsuccessful in the chase, and perhaps his<br \/>\nbad fortune and the sight of the fat deer which the other hunter<br \/>\nthrew from his back before he drank at the crystal spring, caused<br \/>\na feeling of jealousy and ill humor to take possession of his mind.<br \/>\nThe other on the contrary, before he satisfied his thirst, raised<br \/>\nin the hollow of his hand a portion of the water, and lifting it<br \/>\ntoward the sun, reversed his hand and allowed it to fall upon the<br \/>\nground&#8211;a libation to the Great Spirit Manitou who had vouchsafed<br \/>\nhim a successful hunt and the blessing of the refreshing water with<br \/>\nwhich he was about to quench his thirst.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this, and being reminded that he had neglected the usual<br \/>\noffering, only increased the feeling of envy and annoyance which<br \/>\nthe unsuccessful hunter permitted to get the mastery of his heart;<br \/>\nand the Evil Spirit at that moment entering his body, his temper<br \/>\nfairly flew away and he sought some pretense by which to provoke<br \/>\na quarrel with the stranger Indian at the spring.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Why does a stranger, &quot; he asked, rising from the stream<br \/>\nat the same time, &quot;drink at the spring head, when one to whom<br \/>\nthe fountain belongs contents himself with the water that runs from it?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Great Spirit Manitou places the cool water at the spring,&quot;<br \/>\nanswered the other hunter, &quot;that his children may drink it<br \/>\npure and undefiled. The running water is for the beasts which scour<br \/>\nthe plains. Au-sa-qua is a chief of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-digital-norte-y-oeste\/\">Shoshone<\/a>; bebe en la cabecera&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Los Shoshone no son m\u00e1s que una tribu de los <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-kiowa-comanche\/\">Comanche<\/a>,&quot; returned<br \/>\nthe other: &quot;Waco- mish leads the grand nation. Why does a Shoshone<br \/>\ndare to drink above him?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has said it. The Shoshone drinks at the spring-head; other<br \/>\nnations of the stream which runs into the fields. Au-sa-qua is the<br \/>\nchief of his nation. The Comanches are brothers. Let them both drink<br \/>\nof the same water.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Shoshone pays tribute to the Comanche. Waco-mish leads<br \/>\nthat nation to war. Waco-mish is chief of the Shoshone as he is<br \/>\nof his own people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Waco-mish lies; his tongue is forked like the rattlesnake&rsquo;s; his<br \/>\nheart is black as the Misho-tunga (bad spirit). When the Manitou<br \/>\nmade his children, whether Shoshone or Comanche, Arapahoe, Shian<br \/>\nor Paine, he gave them buffalo to eat and the pure water of the<br \/>\nfountain to quench their thirst. He said not to one, drink here,<br \/>\nand to another drink there; but gave the crystal spring to all that<br \/>\nall might drink.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Waco-mish almost burst with rage as the other spoke; but<br \/>\nhis coward heart alone prevented him from provoking an encounter<br \/>\nwith the calm Shoshone. He made thirsty by the words he had spoken,&#8211;for<br \/>\nthe red man is ever sparing of his tongue,&#8211;again stooped down to<br \/>\nthe spring to quench his thirst, when the subtle warrior of the<br \/>\nComanche suddenly threw himself upon the kneeling hunter and, forcing<br \/>\nhis head into the bubbling water, held him down with all his strength<br \/>\nuntil his victim no longer struggled, his stiffened limbs relaxed,<br \/>\nand he fell forward over the spring, drowned and dead.<\/p>\n<p>Over the body stood the murderer, and no sooner was the deed of<br \/>\nblood consummated than bitter remorse took possession of his mind<br \/>\nwhere before had reigned the fiercest passion and vindictive hate.<br \/>\nWith hands clasped to his forehead he stood transfixed with horror,<br \/>\nintently gazing on his victim whose head still remained immersed<br \/>\nin the fountain. Mechanically he dragged the body a few paces from<br \/>\nthe water, which, as soon as the head of the dead Indian was withdrawn,<br \/>\nthe Comanche saw suddenly and strangely disturbed. Bubbles sprang<br \/>\nup from the bottom, and rising to the surface escaped in hissing gas.<\/p>\n<p>A thin vaporish cloud arose and gradually dissolving, displayed<br \/>\nto the eyes of the trembling murderer the figure of an aged Indian<br \/>\nwhose long, snowy hair and venerable beard, blown aside by a gentle<br \/>\nair from his breast, discovered the well-known totem of the great<br \/>\nWau-kau-aga, the father of the Comanche and Shoshone nation whom<br \/>\nthe tradition of the tribe, handed down by skilful hieroglyphics,<br \/>\nalmost deified for the good actions and deeds of bravery this famous<br \/>\nwarrior had performed when on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Stretching out a war club toward the murderer, the figure thus<br \/>\naddressed him: &quot;Accursed of my tribe ! this day thou has severed<br \/>\nthe link between the mightiest nations of the world, while the blood<br \/>\nof the brave Shoshone cries to the Manitou for vengeance. May the<br \/>\nwater of thy tribe be rank and bitter in their throats.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Thus saying, and swinging his ponderous war club (made from the<br \/>\nelk&rsquo;s horn) round his head, he dashed out the brains of the Comanche,<br \/>\nwho fell headlong into the spring, which from that day to the present<br \/>\nmoment remains rank and nauseous, so that not even when half dead<br \/>\nwith thirst, can one drink of the foul water of that spring.<\/p>\n<p>The good Wau-kau-aga, however, to perpetuate the memory of the<br \/>\nShoshone warrior, who was renowned in his tribe for valor and nobleness<br \/>\nof heart, struck with the same avenging club a hard, flat rock which<br \/>\noverhung the rivulet, just out of sight of this scene of blood;<br \/>\nand forthwith, the rock opened into a round, clear basin which instantly<br \/>\nfilled with bubbling, sparkling water, than which no thirsty hunter<br \/>\never drank a sweeter or a cooler draught.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the two springs remain, an everlasting memento of the foul<br \/>\nmurder of the brave Shoshone and the stern justice of the good Wau-kau-aga;<br \/>\nand from that day two mighty tribes of the Shoshone and Comanche<br \/>\nhave remained severed and apart; although a long and bloody war<br \/>\nfollowed the treacherous murder of the Shoshone chief, and many<br \/>\na scalp torn from the head of the Comanche paid the penalty of his death.<\/p>\n<p>The American and Canadian trappers assert that the numerous springs<br \/>\nwhich, under the head of beer, soda, steamboat, springs, etc., abound<br \/>\nin the Rocky Mountains, are the spots where his Satanic majesty<br \/>\ncomes up from his kitchen to breathe the sweet, fresh air, which<br \/>\nmust doubtless be refreshing to his worship after a few hours spent<br \/>\nin superintending the culinary process going on below.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiowa-Comanche Mythology Wiki Los Kiowas emigraron a trav\u00e9s de la cuenca del r\u00edo Platte al \u00e1rea del r\u00edo Arkansas. All\u00ed se enfrentaron con los comanches. 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