Mioshi's+Myth

by Mioshi
Long ago when God made all creation he made humans, animals, and plants. He made the animals with the gift of voice; this means that animals and humans were once able to understand each other. Every animal has its own story of why it makes the noise that it does now. This is the story of why dogs bark.  One day God was in his office answering his daily prayers and noticed that the dogs kept asking if they could have their own way of talking because humans were always butting into their conversations and always criticizing their way of thinking. Because usually all dogs want to do is play all day, God ignored and ignored their requests, until the dogs got angry and hollered at him. They continued to holler at him for days and days, then those days turned into months, and those months turned into years. This went on and the dogs started to holler at the people also. After two years of hollering, God got very angry and put a curse on the dogs for eternity that made it so no one would be able to understand them. This solved both problems: God’s annoyance and the peoples’ confusion. So one day the dogs noticed that their voices were kind of scratchy, but they kept on yelling, until they couldn’t yell any more. It took a really long time to heal, but when their voices got better, it sounded like as what we know today as a bark.

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