| Cherokee
Creation Story – Cherokee |
| When
the earth begun there was just water. All the animals lived above it and
the sky was beginning to become crowded. They were all curious about
what was beneath the water and one day Dayuni'si, the water beetle,
volunteered to explore it. |
| He
went everywhere across the surface but he couldn't find any solid
ground. He then dived below the surface to the bottom and all he found
was mud. |
| This
began to enlarge in size and spread outwards until it became the earth
as we know it. After all this had happened, one of the animals attached
this new land to the sky with four strings. |
| Just
after the earth was formed, it was flat and soft so the animals decided
to send a bird down to see if it had dried. They eventually returned to
the animals with a result. |
| The
land was still to wet so they sent the great Buzzard from Galun'lati to
prepare it for them. |
| The
buzzard flew down and by the time that he reached the Cherokee land he
was so tired that his wings began to hit the ground. Wherever they hit
the ground a mountain or valley formed. The Cherokee land still remains
the same today with all the land forms that the Buzzard formed. |
| The
animals then decided that it was too dark, so they made the sun and put
it on the path in which it still runs today. |
| The
animals could then admire the newly created Earth around them. |
| As
retold by Sarah Steel, published in "Creation Stories" by M. Stewart |
| (Courtesy
Tiger Lilli Sakima) |
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