A man was created in a pod. When he emerged he was a full
grown man. The man was learning how his body worked and how the world around
him worked. The man was a raven flying around, the raven swooped down and
turned into a man. It turns out that the raven made the man unintentionally.
The raven gave the man food. He made sheep for the man, and reindeer. After the
raven made all sorts of creatures, he created a companion for the man. He took
fine clay and shaped it into a woman and used water grass for hair. He waved
his hands around four times and she became real.
When the people were first put on earth there was no
mountains, or rain, or winds. The raven taught the humans how to live and
survive off the land. He made the man some fish to eat. The raven spent days
making all kinds of animals out of clay. When he was done he showed each one of
them to the man. The raven brought the man fish but noticed that the lakes were
bare, so he made bugs to float on top. Then babies were introduced to the
earth, and the raven became afraid they would kill his animals. So the raven
created big creatures that could not easily be killed by the humans.
Bibliography:
Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).
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