In the beginning nothing existed, only
darkness was everywhere. Suddenly from the darkness emerged a thin disc, one
side yellow and the other side white, appearing suspended in midair. Within the
disc sat a small bearded man, Creator, the One Who Lives Above. When he looked
into the endless darkness, light appeared above. He looked down and it became a
sea of light. To the east, he created yellow streaks of dawn. To the west,
tints of many colors appeared everywhere. There were also clouds of different
colors. He also created three other gods:
a little girl, a Sun-God and a small boy.
Then he created celestial phenomena, the winds, the tarantula, and the
earth from the sweat of the four gods mixed together in the Creator's palms,
from a small round, brown ball, not much larger than a bean. The world was
expanded to its current size by the gods kicking the small brown ball until it
expanded. Creator told Wind to go inside the ball and to blow it up.
The tarantula, the trickster
character, spun a black cord and, attaching it to the ball, crawled away fast
to the east, pulling on the cord with all his strength. Tarantula repeated with
a blue cord to the south, a yellow cord to the west, and a white cord to the
north. With mighty pulls in each direction, the brown ball stretched to
immeasurable size--it became the earth! No hills, mountains, or rivers were
visible; only smooth, treeless, brown plains appeared. Then the Creator created
the rest of the beings and features of the Earth.
