Here's a Doni myth to explain why men and women have different jobs. This was an illustration for the point that cultures develop divisions of labour based on gender, physicality or necessity.
In the begin the 4 first people (two men, two women) saw the light of the sun from the inside of a hollow tree. They crawled out, saw the earth was good and so brought two dogs and two pigs up. Then they heard more people coming up the tree, but they decided they wanted to keep the earth to themselves so they plugged the hole with a rock.
At first, the men kept pigs and the women had the bows and arrows. Then the women met their first prey but when they went to pull back the bow, they were not strong enough,so their arrows did not fly far enough. So the men took the bow and arrows and they did hit their prey, so from then on, men hunted and women tended livestock.
In the begin the 4 first people (two men, two women) saw the light of the sun from the inside of a hollow tree. They crawled out, saw the earth was good and so brought two dogs and two pigs up. Then they heard more people coming up the tree, but they decided they wanted to keep the earth to themselves so they plugged the hole with a rock.
At first, the men kept pigs and the women had the bows and arrows. Then the women met their first prey but when they went to pull back the bow, they were not strong enough,so their arrows did not fly far enough. So the men took the bow and arrows and they did hit their prey, so from then on, men hunted and women tended livestock.
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