Chumash
The Three Worlds
There is this world in which we
live, but there is also one above us and one
below us. There are two serpents that hold our world up from below. When
they are tired they move, and that causes earthquakes. The World above
is
sustained by the great eagle. He never moves, he is always in the same
spot.
When he gets tired of sustaining the upper world, he stretches his wings
a
little, and this causes the phases of the moon. When there is an eclipse
of
the moon it is because his wings cover it completely. And the water in
the
springs and streams of this earth is the urine of the many frogs who
live in it.
From the Archives of Blue
Panther
The Sparks of The Sun
The Sun carries a torch of
tightly rolled bark to light the world. After his
daily journey across the sky, he snaps his torch to throw sparks which
are
the stars.
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