Reading Notes, Week 9, Moon and Stars, Part B.

 

Why the Moon and the Stars Receive Their Light From the Sun, West African Folktales by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair:

• West African folktales, thus far, have been all aetiological while demonstrating some type of lesson or reward.
• Dragons are mythical, but wouldn't be expected in Africa, but adding the supernatural and unknown makes the conclusion of the story that more tempting.
• Stories of Anansi focus on his trickster and greedy nature, whereas stories with Kweku Tsin focus on his ability to thwart his father, but also his selflessness.

Kweku Tsin played on the wonderful fiddle by Cecilia Sinclair (1917)
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• Selfless actions, aka freeing the prisoners of the dragon, along with himself and his father.
• Force the dragon to submit; outsmart the powerful. 
• The usage of gods as beings that merit out rewards; Kweku Tsin becomes the sun and the source of light that illuminates his father, the moon, and his friends the stars.
• Without him, they are "dull and powerless."