Cristian DiMarco
The Chelan Creation Myth is like many Native American Myths. But this Myth falls under the catigory of Dues Faber Myths. Dues Faber Myths feature a maker god. Or in this story the great chief above. Dues Faber also contains a person or animal who creates the earth and man. In the story the animal tribe make the humans by killing and seporating a beaver into 12 peices."take Beaver from the water some day and make it into a human being. I will tell you now what to do. Divide Beaver into twelve parts. Take each part to a different place and breathe into it your own breath. Wake it up. It will be a human being with your breath". (pg1) This myth also falls under the catigory of Secretion Myths which state that devine emmisions such as sweat vomit and blood will birth the earth. The animal tribe kills a beaver and uses its body parts such as blood liver and othe body parts to make the humans."They took the liver to Clearwater River, and it became the Nez Perce Indians. They took the heart across the mountains, and it became the Methow Indians. Other parts became the Spokane people, the Lake people, the Flathead people. Each of the eleven pieces became a different tribe."