Cristian DiMarco

Engilsh

8/23/12

             Yokut Creation Story

    The Yokut Creation story is an Earth diver myth. This type of myth states that the world starts as a body of water and an animal dives down the the bottom of the ocean bringing up mud to create the earth. "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." This proves that at the start the would was an ocean. "Can Duck possibly bring up enough mud for us to build land?" they wondered." well Duck could of and he did. The Eagle and the crow caught fish in exchange for ducks mud from the bottom of the ocean which they used to make the land and as they got higher and higher in the sky the "flood" began it subside.
        This also could be a 2 creators myth. The 2 creators myth states that there are two creators that come from a differnt world and make the earth. In this case it was the Eagle and the Bird the two together bribed the duck with fish for his mud the make the earth! The Eagle and the crow begin to compete alittle bit when us comes to eagles suspision that crows stack of mud is much greator than that of his so eagle catches 2 fish for crows one fish in exchange for two piles of mud from the duck. This is and example of creating the earth threw competition.