The World On The Turtles Back And Birth In The Dawn

A Myth is a story, usually traditional, explaining the history of a certain people that explains a phenomenon, which usually involve supernatural events or beings. One type of myth is a creation myth that explains how the world came to be. Almost every people have their own creation myths which their ancestors have passed down. Many creation myths are similar in their details but there are some that are completely different like “The World on the Turtles Back” and “Birth in the Dawn”.
“The world on the Turtles back”, which is a Iriquios myth, tells us that in the beginning there was a pregnant woman from the sky world that was craving delicious foods. While trying to get the fruit from a sacred tree she fell through a hole in the sky world and landed on the back a large turtle. Later the woman had a child, it was a girl. When the child grew up she was impregnated by the west wind. The daughter was going to have twins, during childbirth the right-handed twin was born the right way and the left handed twin decided to be born through the mother’s armpit, killing her. The right
The deepest darkness of caverns and the moonless darkness of the night gave birth to the simple life forms of the sea and many water plants. Next the darkness of the deep and the darkness broken up by slivers of light bore many children which were the fish. Next darkness of night and darkness that just barely breaks into dawn gave birth to all the flying creatures, which is all of the birds and flying insects. As the ocean crept up onto the land and recedes and passes back and forth across it the light of the earliest dawn and half darkness produces the crawling creatures, such as turtles, that emerge from the sea. Next born were the animals of the land created by the steadiness of dawn along with man, woman, and a god. With the union of these three, humans spread across the