Many Gods, One Humanity
How Many Creators?
Apache Creation Story
California
Yokut Creation Story
A Great Flood had occurred upon Earth long, long ago. While Earth was still
covered with water, there were no living creatures upon the land. Then out of
the sky one day glided an enormous Eagle with a black Crow riding upon its back,
searching for a place to light. Around and around Eagle flew until he discovered
a projecting tree stump, or what appeared to be a stump, upon which he landed to
rest. There was a home at last upon the flat surface, which was amply large
enough for Eagle and Crow to roost upon.
Comanche
Creation Story
"One day the Great Spirit
collected swirls of dust from the four directions in order to create the
Comanche people. These people formed from the earth had the strength of mighty
storms. Unfortunately, a shape-shifting demon was also created and began to
torment the people. The Great Spirit cast the demon into a bottomless pit. To
seek revenge the demon took refuge in the fangs and stingers of poisonous
creatures and continues to harm people every chance it gets."
Washington
Chelan Indians
Long, long ago, the Creator, the Great Chief Above, made the world. Then he made
the animals and the birds and gave them their names--Coyote, Grizzly Bear, Deer,
Fox, Eagle, the four Wolf Brothers, Magpie, Bluejay, Hummingbird, and all the
others. When he had finished his work, the Creator called the animal people to
him. "I am going to leave you," he said. "But I will come back. When I come
again, I will make human beings. They will be in charge of you." The Great Chief
returned to his home in the sky, and the animal people scattered to all parts of
the world.
Mik'Maq
Creation
After the world was
created and after the animals, birds and plants were placed on the surface,
Gisoolg caused a bolt of lightening to hit the surface of Ootsitgamoo. This bolt
of lightning caused the formation of an image of a human body shaped out of
sand. It was Glooscap who was first shaped out of the basic element of the
Mik'Maq world, sand. Gisoolg unleashed another bolt of lightening which gave
life to Glooscap but yet he could not move. He was stuck to the ground only to
watch the world go by and Nisgam travel across the sky everyday. Glooscap
watched the animals, the birds and the plants grow and pass around him. He asked
Nisgam to give him freedom to move about the Mik'Maq world.
Mexico
Creator
The Telleriano-Remensis and Florentine codices declare that Quetzalcoatl, as
great artificer, ‘formed’ and ‘molded’ the first human beings in his image, and
that only he, and no other god, and ‘had a human body.
Aborigine
Creation Myth
There was a time when everything was still. All the spirits of the earth were
asleep, or almost all. The great Father of All Spirits was the only one awake.
Gently he awoke the Sun Mother. As she opened her eyes a warm ray of light
spread out towards the sleeping earth. The Father of All Spirits said to the Sun
Mother, "Mother, I have work for you. Go down to the Earth and awake the
sleeping spirits. Give them forms." The Sun Mother glided down to Earth, which
was bare at the time and began to walk in all directions and everywhere she
walked plants grew. After returning to the field where she
How Many Gods,
Causing How Many Floods?
Greek
The god Zeus flooded the planet to destroy the men of
the Bronze Age. The son of Prometheus, Deucalion was told to build a chest.
Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha floated in the chest for nine days and nights and
landed on Parnassus. Other stories have the chest landing on Mount Othrys in
Thessaly, a peak called Phouka, in Nemea, the son of Zeus surviving the flood by
on the top of Mount Gerania, and an earlier flood in the time of Ogyges, king of
Thebes.
Roman
Jupiter, angered at the evil ways of humanity, decided
to flood the earth except the summit of Parnassus, where Deucalion and his wife
Pyrrha came by boat and and survived. Jupiter and Mercury, traveling in dusguise,
and begging for food, but found no help in Phrygiauntil they found Philemon and
Baucis. They led them to the mountains where they suvived th flood.
Scandinavian
Oden, Vili, and Ve slew the great ice giant Ymir, and
water melting form wounds drowned most of the Rime Giants. The giant Bergelmir
with his wife and children survived on a boat.
Celtic
Heaven and Earth were giants. Their son cut Heaven
into many pieces. His blood caused a great flood which killed all men except a
single pair, who were saved in a ship.
Welsh
A lake burst, flooding all lands. Dwyfan and Dwyfach
survived in a mastless ship with pairs of every living creature and landed in
Prydain, now Britain.
Lithuanian
The god Pramzimas sent two giants, Wandu and Wejas to
flood the earth. Some people and animals including an elderly couple survived
the flood floating in the nutshell. After the flood, Pramzimas sent the rainbow
as comfort.
Germanic
A louse and a flea caused all life to be drowned in a flood.
Turkish
After a dispute between Iskender-Iulcarni (Alexander the Great), and Katife,
Queen of Smyrna Iskender-Iulcarni decided to drown the queen in a great flood.
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