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Myths of the Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo peoples tell how the first human beings emerged from an underworld to the Earth. According to the Hopi Pueblo people, the first beings were the Sun, two goddesses known as Hard Being Woman (Huruing Wuhti) [32] and Spider Woman. [32] [33] It was the goddesses who created living creatures and human beings.
God who assisted in creation myth. Catequil: God of thunder and lightning. Cavillace: Virginity goddess. Ate a fruit, which was actually the sperm of Coniraya, the moon god. And gave birth to a son. Cavillace's son: Son of Cavillace and Coniraya. When he was born, Cavillace demanded that the father step forward.
Raven stories exist in nearly all of the First Nations throughout the region but are most prominent in the tales of the Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit and Tahltan people. Raven and eagle are known by many different names by many different peoples and are important figures among written and verbal stories.
These sacred myths were the record of the history of the Choctaw and many other Indigenous groups, as they were for other cultures around the world. During these sacred stories and myths, names were mentioned, but dates were hardly included. An example was Choctaw Chief Pushmataha. While he is known to have lived from 1764 to 1824, the stories ...
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The dzögä́:ö’ are invisible nature spirits, similar to the fairies of European myth. They protect and guide the natural world and protect people from unseen hidden enemies. There are three tribes of dzögä́:ö’. The first tribe is the Ga-hon-ga who inhabit rivers and rocks. They live in rocky caves beside streams and have great ...
Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero (these two archetypes are often combined into a single figure in First Nations mythologies, among others). Nanabozho can take the shape of male or female animals or humans in storytelling.
Proto-Uralic mythology. Komi mythology; Finnic mythology. Estonian mythology; Finnish mythology; Mari mythology; Sami mythology; Germanic mythology. Anglo-Saxon mythology; Continental Germanic mythology; English mythology; Frankish mythology; Norse mythology; Swiss folklore; Scottish mythology; Welsh mythology; Irish mythology. Northern/modern ...