Hmong Creation Story

Hmong Culture

Monday, March 14, 2016

Creation of the Hmong

Hmong Creation Story

Beginning

In the Barrel

Marriage Story

Differences

• Everything Dead
• Water Covered everything
• Barrel floats in water

• Rolled Stones down hill
• Stacks stones together
• Marriage
• Child was pumpkin like
• Husband kills baby throwing pieces everywhere

• Rolled stones down mountain
• Rolled stones back up
• Puts stones together
• Marriage
• Child was non-human
• Both decide to cut baby and spread it around for fortune.

Hmong Creation Story

Archetypes and Deities.

Conclusion

• Sky- Higher Being
• Water- Creation, Life

• the clans were created
• everything else came to be
• a village was formed
• the world came to

• Hmong people do not have gods
• They just refer to "the sky" - as an higher being