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The Cherokee Creation Myth
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The Cherokee Myth
The Water Beetle Created The Earth
How he created it?
The Evolution
The Beginning
The first earth came to be when the Water beetle came from the sky realm. The Water beetle wasn't effected by natural laws of cause and effect, outside of the causality the beetle went to see below the water. He then dives into the bottom of the water grabs some mud. The mud expands in all directions and that becomes the earth.
The other animals were eager to down to earth, first birds were sent to make sure the mud was dry. Buzzard was sent ahead to make preparations for other animals, but earth was soft still. When he was tired his wings dipped low and brushed the mud to make mountains and valleys in smooth surface. The animals had to wait again when dry they all come down. But it was to dark, so they set the sun in a track to run from east to west setting it to low would scorch the red crawfish. The sun was elevated several times to reduce the heat. Plants and animals were told to stay up seven nights but only few animals stayed up such as owl, and panther. They got the power to see and prey on others at night. Few trees succeeded such as namely cedar, pine, spruce and laurel. The rest was forced to shed their leaves in winter.
The animals and plants
The first two people were brother and sister. The brother hit his sister with a fish he then tells her to multiply. She goes on to give birth to a child every seven days and then it became too many people so women were forced to have one child every year.
The people
Works Cited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_spiritual_beliefs
https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/mythology/creation.cherokee.html