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  "thread": {
    "id": 4851,
    "subject": "Tracking Song and Raven Steals the Sun",
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    "first": "2007-06-17T06:03:44+00:00",
    "last": "2007-06-17T06:03:44+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<39ed084f0706162303l381fbd46pc992bf0302e833ec@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Groves",
        "address": "matthewalangroves at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-17T06:03:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tracking Song and Raven Steals the Sun",
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          "text": "We're leaving something important out of the discussion of \"Tracking Song,\"\nsomething that Alice Turner noted a long time ago:\n\nhttp://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0007/0595.shtml\n\nIn light of the Native American \"totem story\" character of \"Tracking Song,\"\nand in light of the tall, winged being steering the Great Sleigh, and in\nlight of the fact that the people of the Great Sleigh are *bringing the sun*\nto thaw out the frozen waste, that adds yet another layer to \"Tracking\nSong\": Has anyone ever heard of the Native American story \"Raven Steals the\nSun\"?\nSo there's the answer to who's in charge of the Great Sleigh: it's Great\nRaven.  Great Raven is a trickster god and a creator god, and the bringer of\ndaylight, so it's easy to see why Wolfe would be interested in him.\nMore information about this legend will no doubt provide more clues to\ninterpreting \"Tracking Song.\"  This is a truly fun Wolfe story -- so many\nlayers!  This guy should be in, like, some kind of hall of fame or\nsomething.\n\nMatt G.\n\nP.S.: By the by, in a quick look online, some legends of Raven say that he\nis a shape-shifter. Could it be that the three other giants, Nashhwonk,\nMimmunka, and Ketin, are all really Raven?"
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