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"How Mosquitoes Came To Be": The Giant Lives On
February 10, 1997
Every time I read the Tlingit Legend, "How Mosquitoes Came To Be," there
are certain questions that come to mind about where the legend came from and who
wrote it. The legend was first published in 1883 and later found by Rich ....
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.... in hopes of understanding the problems with humans and
giants, which I might add is still being dealt with today with mosquitoes
everywhere.
My first question, if this giant was the only one on the planet, seemed
answered toward the end of the story with the introduction of the giant's son.
When the human threatened the life of the boy giant as he asked where the heart
of his father was, why didn't he kill the boy anyway? As we all know, a boy
will eventually become a person, and the boy is in fact a giant, therefore by
killing the giant by stabbing him ....
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