Creative Writing: The Great White Wolves

The morning sun is hidden behind a desolate gray sky. The temperatures are nearing frigid, despite the fact it’s August: always a month of sweltering heat in the District. An ashy flurry started sometime between Madge and Gale’s conversation and when they both had woken up.

“The Iroquois Creation Story” tells the ancient myth when only two worlds existed. One, in the lower half, complete darkness filled with monsters and the other, the upper world, filled with mankind. There, in the second world, a women conceived twins. As her labor intensified she fell closer and closer to the lower, darker world. While in distress the twins were born and “entered the dark world by compulsion”. Only a few moments later the women fell to her death. As the twins grew older they possessed different minds. One was the good mind and the other was the bad mind. The good mind used the parent for his initial creations. Around the head, an orb was created to “bestow light to the new world”, now known as the sun. Another orb was placed around the body which was “inferior” to the light, now known as the moon. He also created spots of lights to connect the day and night which are now know as stars. All of these were created to help “regulate” the days, nights, season, years, etc.”. The good mind continued his creations by creating animals, oceans, mountains, insects and mankind.

Rangi, the sky, and Papa, the Earth, were finally separated. They became the sky above and the Earth below as we known them today. The blood from Rangi became the red of the sunset, the blood from Papa became the red, clay land. At last, the light came into the world and the child moved to the four corners. Tawhirimatea was very angry with what was done and the anger grew in him until he couldn’t bear it anymore. Therefore, he ripped out his eyes and threw them into the heavens, here they turned into the first two stars. However, he turned his blind fury on all of his brothers. He blew hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, he made tsunamis and huge storms. Tawhirimatea anger had no end. Papa and Rangi were unhappy, they missed each other so much that they cried and cried and cried. The tears from Rangi become rivers, oceans, and dew. Papa’s sighing with loneliness is the mists that rise from the ground. This is why the Maori creation myth had a bloody struggle.

Out of Chaos, came Earth and Sky, and the very first gods. In this story, life came from nothingness-a void. From the Void there then came Darkness and Night. From Night came the Light and then Day. Earth, named Gaia, brought about Sky, known as Uranus, and then after lying with Sky, she birthed Ocean, along with the giants and Cyclopes, and immortals. Hesiod's story is similar to the Bible in that it describes children falling from grace and having to deal with the consequences and fallout. Also like the Bible, where Eve is the cause of the fall, it is a female-the "mother" who causes the same problem in the Theogeny. This mother gets together with Chornus, her son, who cut his father Sky's insides out of his own body. In the Bible, the Father has great love for his creation, but in Hesiod's story, the father hates his children, who he called the Titans. The Titans were the parents of the Greek gods of Mount Olympus, thus beginning the line of gods that rose from chaos. There is a similarity, though, in the hatred of the father of the Theogeny and the rebellion of the children that stemmed from this feeling, and the great flood of the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh, in which the children were punished for their disobedience by an angry Father or

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. He separated the light from the darkness he called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” God called the vault “sky.” God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their

These creation stories attempt to define not only how the world was created, but also how the human race came to inhabit it. An explanation used by numerous tribes in North America is that of a "primeval water covering a not-yet-created earth" (Erdoes 76). In a creation story starting out in this way, land is formed upon this massive body of water once an animal, most commonly a turtle or raven, dives down and retrieves mud from the depths of the water (Spencer 156). This mud is then given to a divine creature, who's specific identity varies depending on the tribe. The divine creature then forms the land of earth (Erdoes 76). In the Iroquois tribe's version of this common creation story, the formation of land is prompted by the descent of a sky woman towards the mass of water from a hole in the clouds. In order to save her, mud is hastily gathered and spread across a turtle's shell, forming the first island. It is upon this island that the first humans are born (Erdoes 75). In the creation stories of tribes in the Northwest region of the United States, the divine creator next creates the coyote, who is in turn the creator of all humans and animals (Erdoes 75). In some tribes located in the Southwest region of the United States, however, it is not the coyote but the Great Butterfly that is the creator of both humans and animals (Edmonds

There were water animals "Monsters" already in existence, and a women which was the "second generation of sky women to become pregnant without sexual activity". Creation of the earth was immensely different in this story; in fact it was created by mud that the woman placed on the back of the turtle, causing it to grow into a big Island that we today call Earth. After time, a good mind, Enigorio, and a bad mind, Enigonhahetgea, were created. The good mind was bothered with the darkness and he therefor created light, the sun, using the parents head which he then created an orb with. He later constructed the moon, stars, creeks, rivers, forests, fishes, man, and woman. The bad mind also took part in this creation of the earth. He constructed high mountains, waterfalls, great steeps, and various reptiles which would negatively impact mankind. The bad mind and good mind tried to out power each other with the creations of earth. The bad mind creating what could hurt mankind, and the good mind creating what could comfort

    "You can't go all over the country having babies like that. Those poor little things'll grow up helpless. You've got to offer them a chance to live." He looked at his feet and nodded. (253)

The God had plenty of ideas and plans up his sleeve of what to put on this planet, but he did not know where to begin. Helios thought about it all night and when he went to sleep, he dreamt about this world. The next morning, Helios had a clean slate of his world in his mind, he first wrote down all his ideas on a piece of paper and one by one, he used his magical wand and created his thoughts. The Sun God begins by creating plants that would supply for food and grow on this very land. Helios then creates animals, tame and heroic ones and evil and aggressive ones for stability in the animal world. One after another he created the rabbits,

“Are you cold, Wulfric?” she asked and I could only nod my trembling head. Rochelle stood up and we heard the wind roar.

“According to the greek creation myth, from Chaos -or nothingness- Night and Darkness (Nyx and Erebus) Emerged. Then Love (Eros, order) formed and Day and Light were created. from these states two entities were formed, Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (sky and Heavens)” (Hamilton 77).

"Beth, wait! It's dangerous!" You called out for her in the blizzard, however, she kept running. Your friends rejoiced with you in the snow, looking at each other with mixed emotions.

“Man, these people deserve to be stolen from. They don’t even lock the doors.” Finn said.

The only living thing was a bird by the name of Nyx. Nyx gave birth to the god of love Eros. Eros named the sky Uranus and the earth Gaia. Later they fell in love and had many kids together. One of their children’s kids, Cronus became afraid that his kids would take his power so in order to protect himself he ate his children while they were infants. His wife hid one of their kids and he was soon to be known as Zeus. Zeus tricked his father and got his brothers and sisters back. Zeus then became their leader and led them as they started the war with Cronus. The children were successful and from that they gave the earth life and the sky stars. The Earth was only missing one key thing mankind. Zeus summoned his two sons Epimetheus and Prometheus and gave the job of giving gifts to both animals and humans. Epimetheus was very rash so he gave the animals all the gifs intended for humans. Prometheus decided to give mankind the gift on fire. Fire was only meant for the gods so when Zeus found out he sentenced his son to have his live poked out by a vulture for the rest of his existence.

Soon after the creation of light and warmth, he decided to create his own planet. He named it “Tearth”. He created this planet with hard rocks and brown dirt, but instantly found that the ground was too hard. He decided to pull some long strings of green grass