Native Coyote Scatters Stars

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The Creator gives Coyote the task of placing the stars in careful order across the night. Impatient and bored with the slow work, Coyote flings the whole basket of stars into the sky at once, and that is why most stars lie scattered without pattern, in the great careless spill we call the Milky Way. Moral: haste leaves its disorder written across the heavens. — Native American (Coyote tale)