Culture and The Way to Rainy Mountain

Momaday in this essay embodies the legends and songs of his Kiowa heritage. He leads us to the Rainy Mountain describing its hardest weather and the isolate aspect of the landscape. The story is interesting because the author use similes to pictures every moment and place. He goes through the story, traditions, myths and legend of his people. Also, he describes the Kiowas’ transformation from mountain people with unclassified language to fighters, hunters and priest of the sun when they decided to move to the plains. The bad side of the history is the grandmother’s death. Unfortunately, the author could not be at the grave but he has his best grandmother’s memories. He remembers her peculiar postures and praying in Kiowa. At the end, he felt the deep silence of the house without the grandmother and left her among ancestral names and the Kiowa Culture.