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SOS: SEARCHING OUT STORIES AND INFORMATION ABOUT CREATION
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1) There is a beautifully written Creation story on pages 15-17 in Joseph Bruchac's Iroquois Stories: Heroes and Heroines Monsters and Magic. (1985)

2) http://www.planetdeb.net/spirit/songofcreation.htm
Hopi Song of Creation (story and creation song).

3) http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/umbriel.htm
Creation Myths (Morgana's Observatory).

4) http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamcreation.html (the full text is here)
Native American Myths of Creation.
Creator sang, "Let us make earth. I am thinking of the earth, earth, earth; I am thinking of the earth," he sang four times. All four gods shook hands. In doing so, their sweat mixed together and Creator rubbed his palms, from which fell a small round, brown ball, not much larger than a bean.

5) http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/create.html
A website with a collection of Creation myths.

6) Bruce Chatwin's Songlines is interesting in many ways, not least its description of a world sung into being, in Australian aborigine dreamtime. The animals created the world as they walked, singing. Of tangential interest, but interest nonetheless, in The Magician's Nephew, CS Lewis shows us the god-lion Aslan walking through the void, singing Narnia into creation. One by one, the created beings (including stars and trees) join in the chorus. This is the kind of idea that Lewis and Tolkein must have batted around in front of the fire, in the meetings of the Inklings club. And my guess is, they got it from the Australians, not the Finns.
He explores the aboriginal belief that everything was sung into being by creator spirits who took the forms of animals and then went "within" and went to sleep. A lovely little book, and a synopsis of the legend is in there somewhere.

Created 2002; last update 7/16/09

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