Seabury Narwhals: October 2013

After reading creation myths from many different cultures and comparing them to one another the Serpents wrote their own creation myths. Here are a few examples:

By: Z.M.

For a long time there was nothing but a great need, years and years of great need. Out of all that swelling great need came five things. In a way you could say the things were children of the great need.

The first oldest was Earth also known as World, next came Water or Teary, after that came Air or Oxygen, then came Fire or Wild, and last came life or Zoe {Zoe in Greek means life}.

Life unlike all the others was a spirit not an element and was the greatest need. Life asked all the elements for a little bit of each and from that she made animals.

From Earth she asked for materials and that her animals could live free on earth’s land. From Fire she asked that all her animals had warmth. From Air she asked if the oxygen could cycle through its body. Last from Water she asked if it could cycle through their bodies, and she added life.

Water got jealous, Life made them alive, the lived on earth, Fire was always around them. Then he got an idea he flooded Earth. Earth was so overwhelmed she didn’t know what to do.

Fire went to Water to make a compromise with Water if he only flooded some parts of the earth Life would give him animals that breathed water.

Water was satisfied but Air wasn’t but what did he get in it? So Life made creatures that lived in water and breathed air. Everyone was satisfied. Earth bore children to Air, Water, and Fire they were the planets.

They each had many more children like Light and Dark, Underworld and Heaven. And that’s my creation myth story.

By: D.S.

In the beginning, a long time ago, there were only 2 gods, Aro’hi and Leti’da. The two of them loved each other very much. Eventually though, after 1,000,000 years of solitude, they had 40 children, ¼ of them female, ¾ of them male. Each had their own personality except two with the same, one male and one female. These two were named Carin’olo, (female) and Ewteh’li (male). Their personality were loving.

Now these ones married each other, while the rest (9 female 29 male) stayed single. It was worth it because 5 days 3 hours 8 minutes 9 seconds after their marriage, they bore 5,005,050,000 children. ½ male ½ female! One the god of the sky, one the god of the ocean, they kept doing this until all the terrain features were taken up.

The rest were made Mortal, doomed to eventually die, while the rest of the gods were immortal except one, the female gorgon Medusa. She could turn any mortal to stone with a single glance, with her head cut of her eyes still turned anyone to stone. Her husband was immortal. The god of the sky, Gotik-kitog-hamiami, loved her so much, that when she died, he went to the mortal’s house, and drown him in the ocean, giving his corpse to the ocean god Giliga’gili and left.

By: O.M.

Once upon a time, a long time ago there was a god named Randally. He was the god of nature, Randally had a twin brother named Paiac and he was the god of destruction.

Their family was all royalty and the brothers were always fighting over who would be king after their parents had passed away. Randally was a very kind,young man he would always help around the village and would refuse to call himself a prince. On the other hand Paiac was a very mean bully to all of the villagers and would whip all of them. When Randally found out about what Paiac was doing he tried to put a stop to it. Unfortunately when Randally told Paiac to stop Paiac got very angry and threatened to kill Randally if he would ever get in his way of being king and controlling his life that he would kill the whole family and also him.

A couple years later after he said that Randally ran away so he wouldn’t harm his family or him. While Randally was walking to find shelter or food he saw something shining in the dirt and decided to go see what it was. It was a silver piece of paper, he picked it up and rubbed it on his cloak to get the dirt off. He noticed that it had a Quote on it that said “never stop trying” when he had read that he had gotten some hope that he was going to find somewhere that he could rest and find some food. So he kept walking and he could see a big meadow of grass and some bushes of fruit and a tall tree.

He had decided to take a nap and lie there for a while since he hadn’t slept in ages. While he was asleep he heard something in the bushes it was a snake that could talk!!! The snake told him that he looked lonely and asked if he could have a drop of his blood. Randally said yes and poked him with a dagger that he brought with him. That snake soon disappeared and came back with a girl named Kia she had then told Randally that she could do whatever he wished. A couple years later they had a kid and went back to the village where he had grown up and saw that his brother was now king and how everyone was being treated very badly so he had come up with a plan. He went and told all of his villagers that he was back and told them that they were going to gang up on Paiac and tell him that he would be locked up in jail for the rest of his life and forced him to back out of the throne. The next day the plan was in motion all of the villagers had lined up around the castle and Kia and Randally were up front. Paiac had noticed and told all of his soldiers to get ready for battle against their own village the soldiers had disagreed because there family was all the village. Finally Randally, Kia and the whole village went in the castle and said what they were going to say. Paiac was surprised to see his brother again and agreed to go to jail because of what he had done. Kia and Randally were the new queen and king and the whole village shouted that he was awesome and will never disobey them ever. They soon had over 100 kids and loved them all. Randally had invented all of the new tools to farm, cook and build things he then started to think that if he could do this in his city that he could do it all over the world so he then speeded the inventions. He had more kids and soon some grandchildren like sun, moon, death and hope.

And that is my story of how the world became of how it is.

By: K.C.

A long time ago there was a big collision of rock. The collision caused a mass cloud which created Lotus god of the skies. Lotus felt lonely in the sky all alone. So he thought to himself : How can I create more? Lotus thought and thought. In fact, the more he thought the more frustrated he got.

One day he got so frustrated he started crying. He cried so hard he created the seas. He realized there was something down below him. He was so happy he started to laugh. He jumped down and visited the creature.

Her name was Constance which means peaceful in Latin. Constance also created sea creatures and sea plants. They soon created people and they were too happy. And one day they created another god and there were plants and land animals.

Earth formed and more people evolved they enjoyed being on earth and they were happy that they are a living creature. He was also happy to have friends. And he wasn’t lonely anymore