The Creation Of Wazanki: An Ancient Civilization

One of the most important myths of the Huichols Indians is about the creation of the world. These types of myths are categorized as origin myths which “are typically the most sacred of a culture’s myths and provide the foundation upon which other myths are built” (Lindell “Professor’s Notes 4” 2). The article “Journey of Grandmother Rain” by Jack Eidt tells the story about the first humans, the creation of the land, and the creation of the sun. From a structuralist perspective, the binary opposition that shapes the worldview of the Huichol Indians is apparent in this origin myth. According to Eidt, in the Huichol origin myth the first human, named Watacame, and his black female dog, Tziku Mayuri, had to “withstand five days of monsoons, wind, waves, flooding and storming” (Eidt). After Watacame had successfully survived the storm, the Goddess Takutzi Nakawe (Grandmother Rain)

gods and the natural world. Gods of rain, fire, water, corn, sky, and sun were venerated. There

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

I believe that the world was created by the Big Bang Theory, which, is very different from the myth as it portrays how the Iroquois believe in a creator. This is evident when the narrator states: “The woman took the tiny clod of dirt and placed it on the middle of the great sea turtle’s back...began to walk in circles around it...The earth began to grow...she planted the roots...Thus the plants grew on earth.” (40-41) This shows

In myths we come across many names of gods and goddesses and strange creatures. All of them have many stories related to them. Different gods represent different aspects of life and the Earth is under their control.

Many people wonder about the creation of our world or how it started because it is the place we live in. It is so mass and divergent, so it sparks curiosity in all of our minds. The Iroquois are a Native American tribe that resided in what is now New York. This tribe had many different beliefs on how the world was created. The Iroquois believed in the sky-world, the only thing was the sky-world

It all started with Uranus and Gaea. They were the first God and Goddess. Gaea is the Goddess of the Earth. Uranus is the God of sky. Another name that refer to Gaea is Mother Earth. Uranus and Gaea First children are called the titans. They had 6 titans, which are boys. They also had 6 titanesses, which are girls. The titan had ridiculous amount of strength. One of the titans was named Cronus. Uranus and Gaea had 3 cyclops children. There names were Lightning, Thunder,and Thunderbolt. The cyclopes are strong smiths. Then Uranus and Gaea had a 3 generation of kids, which were 3 sons. They had 50 heads & 100 strong arms. Uranus put the cyclops and 3rd generation of children into Tartarus. Gaea told her Titan kids to help her and kill Uranus for sending there other kids into Tartarus. Gaea told her children, who ever chooses to kill there father get the title lord of the universe and also free his siblings. Cronus said he would, but his father fled before he got the chance.

The Islamic civilization spread to encompass such an extensive empire by using their resources and becoming a peaceful civilization with peaceful people.

Thus beginning the but the animal yet again where worried that now the man would grow lonely, so then Hactcin, with a lice made the man dream of a women. When he had woken there she was, and they were instructed to eat plants and animal. From the first man and women come all people of their tribe after. Apache spirit “Holy Boy” tried to make the sun and with help of White and Black Hactcin and Red Boy they made what daylight is to us now. Shamans claimed they controlled the sun but four days after an eclipse occurred and unable to bring the light back, White Hactcin called upon the animal and with their help they created a mountain. This mountain was climbed by White, Black Hactcin and Holy boy as well as Red boy who only saw the sun was in another earth where it shined bright. Man and women where the first to climb up the mountain and there all others come up except two, an old man and an old women. They stayed behind but told the others they had to go back one day which is why when we die we go the underworld.

Osman Bey: The founder of the dynasty that continued in unbroken succession until the dissolution of the empire. He was chief of a band of semi-nomadic Turks who migrated to northwestern Anatolia.

Their gods were based on the forces of nature. The most important gods were the sun, rain, moon, and thunder gods because these were the gods that they believed would help them with their crops.

According to the Iroquian creation story “The World on the Turtles Back”, its starts out in the Sky World, the earth did not exist at this point. In the Sky world, they lived a pregnant woman and her husband. The woman was longing the roots from The Great

“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.

In the beginning, the world was all water. Above the water, there was a great ivory cloud, full of people and animals. The people used the animals as slaves and told them what to do. The animals would have to clean, cook and work for the humans. One day a Nene, named Faddei, refused to work for the humans. That day the humans battered Faddei for not working, later he snuck out and told all the animals to meet him under the willow tree. That night at the willow tree he and the other animals formed a coalition against the humans. The animals went on strike against the humans. Later, the humans declared war on the animals. The animals surrounded the humans and started to push them off the cloud one by one. As the humans fell the fish down below

Back to the beginning of time, everyone has their stories of how they were created or brought to this earth. Well this is the story of how the people of the tribe Wikakawin, were created. They were found by a set of twins, one a girl and the other a boy. Their names were Sylvester, and Zariya. They were walking home when they found the people of the Wikakawin Tribe.