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From Birth to Death
In The Way To Rainy Mountain , the twelfth set of stories discusses one common
motif, that of fire, destruction, and eventual rebirth; however, it is a set of ordinal stories.
The first story is about a man, woman, and child escaping enemies by setting fire to their
own house. The second story is about a heraldic tipi, known as the Do-giagya guati ,
which is accidentally “destroyed by fire”. The third story is about a person walking
through the Rainy Mountain Cemetery. There was a “deep blush on the sky, and the dark
red earth seemed to glow with the setting sun”. In all of these stories there is the
discussion of fire, or in the case of the third story, the color of fire. These stories use a
mixture of different concepts from the Joseph Campbell film including the cosmological
and pedagogical functions of myth. It is cosmological because it deals with the universe