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NORTH AMERICA
X. Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
Who: Sky Woman, her twin sons
Mechanism: Falls from sky; turtle becomes Earth; twins shape realityโgood twin creates light, bad twin creates death
Time/Place: Northeastern U.S., oral traditions pre-contact
Source: Oneida Nation,
Symbolism: Duality, motherhood, sacrifice
Comparative Notes: Mirrors Mesopotamian sibling rivalries (e.g., Enlil/Enki)
X. Blackfoot (Niitsitapi)
Who: Apistotoke (Great Spirit), Naโpi (Old Man), Turtle
Mechanism: Spirit creates world from water; mud brought by Turtle becomes land
Time/Place: Alberta & Montana, pre-1700
Source: Grinnell, Schultz, Wissler
Symbolism: Water origin, divine shaping, elder wisdom
Comparative Notes: Strong โEarth-Diverโ parallel (Hindu Kurma, Cherokee, Mongolian)
X. Miwok (California)
Who: Coyote, Lizard, sometimes Buzzard
Mechanism: Earth is sung into being; humans formed from twigs, feathers, or mud
Time/Place: Sierra Nevada & Bay Area, ancient tribal regions
Source: Merriam, Kroeber, Forester
Symbolism: Animal trickster-deity, co-creation, shaping breath
Comparative Notes: Echoes African trickster creation (Anansi, Hare)
X. Crow (Apsรกalooke)
Who: Iichรญkbaalia (Creator) and four ducks
Mechanism: Ducks dive into primordial water, bring mud to make land
Time/Place: Northern Plains (Montana), ancient oral lineage
Source: LBHC archives, Smithsonian
Symbolism: Water-diving, sacred animals, obedience
Comparative Notes: Strong resonance with Hindu Vishnu & Turtle cosmogony
๐ธ AFRICA
X. Serer (Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania)
Who: Roog (or Koox)
Mechanism: Utters cosmic words "A nax" (I create) & "A leep" (It is finished); births X primordial spirits; merges masculine & feminine energy
Time/Place: Senegambia, possibly Neolithic oral origin
Source: Pangool (Henry Gravrand); Serer elders
Symbolism: Sacred number 7, sound-vibration creation, balance
Comparative Notes: Parallels to Genesis X (word-based creation), and Vedic Om-based cosmology
X. Zulu (Southern Africa)
Who: Unkulunkulu (First Being)
Mechanism: Emerges from reeds; brings forth people, cattle, sky
Time/Place: KwaZulu-Natal; pre-colonial oral lineage
Source: Ethnographic collections (Callaway, Bleek)
Symbolism: Plant-human connection, ancestral emergence
Comparative Notes: Emergence similar to Hopi & Navajo root-migration stories
X. Ashanti (Ghana)
Who: Nyame (Sky God), Anansi (Spider trickster)
Mechanism: World begins in sky; humans descend; spider gathers creation knowledge
Time/Place: Akan region, pre-empire
Source: Colonial anthropological journals
Symbolism: Story, mischief, wisdom as generative forces
Comparative Notes: Aligns with Coyote myths and Polynesian trickster-Maui
๐ธ AUSTRALIA
X. Aboriginal (Various Nations)
Who: Dreamtime spirits, Rainbow Serpent
Mechanism: World sung and walked into existence; ancestral beings shape the land
Time/Place: 65,000+ years oral memory; Australia
Source: Yolngu, Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, etc.
Symbolism: Sound = matter, land = ancestor, eternity
Comparative Notes: Unique global system: creation exists outside time (atemporal)
๐ธ SOUTH AMERICA
X. Tupi-Guarani (Brazil)
Who: Tupรฃ and Arasy
Mechanism: Tupรฃ descends in lightning, creates Earth; Arasy places stars, moon, sun
Time/Place: Amazon basin, ancient oral tradition
Source: Jesuit-collected myths (17th century)
Symbolism: Sky-beings, love-duality, star origins
Comparative Notes: Lightning deity as world-shaper also appears in Shinto (Raijin)
XX. Mapuche (Chile/Argentina)
Who: Ngenechen (Creator God)
Mechanism: Cosmic battle between Trengtreng (life force) and Caicai (chaos serpent); land rises or sinks
Time/Place: Patagonia, pre-Incan
Source: Mapuche oral epics, colonial diaries
Symbolism: Flood myth, balance of order vs. flood
Comparative Notes: Mirrors global flood cosmologies (e.g., Noah, Gilgamesh, Manu)
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