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Source: As retold by Sarah
Steel, published in "Creation Stories"
by M. Stewart
When the earth begun
there was just water. All the animals lived above it and
the sky was beginning to become crowded. They were all curious
about what was beneath the water and one day
Dayuni’si, the water beetle, volunteered to explore
it.
He went everywhere
across the surface but he couldn’t find any solid
ground. He then dived below the surface to the bottom and
all he found was mud.
This began to enlarge
in size and spread outwards until it became the earth as
we know it. After all this had
happened, one of the animals attached this new land to
the sky with four strings.
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Just after the earth
was formed, it was flat and soft so the animals
decided to send a bird down to see if it had dried. They
eventually returned to the animals with a result.
The land was still to
wet so they sent the great Buzzard from Galun’lati
to prepare it for them.
The buzzard flew down
and by the time that he reached the Cherokee land he was
so tired that his wings began to hit the ground. Wherever
they hit the ground a mountain or valley formed. The
Cherokee land still remains the same today with all the
land forms that the Buzzard formed.
The animals then
decided that it was too dark, so they made the sun and
put it on the path in which it still runs today.
The animals could then
admire the newly created Earth around them.
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