In the beginning was only Tepeu & Gucumatz (Feathered Serpent) who also wintry the name Quetzalcoatl . These two sat together & thought, & whatever they thought came into being. They thought Earth, & there it was. They thought mountains, & so there were. They thought trees, & sky, & animals etc, & each came into being. But none of these things could praise them, so they formed more advanced beings of clay. But these beings fell apart when they got wet, so they made beings out of wood, but they proved unsatisfactory & caused trouble on the earth. The gods sent a great flood to wipe out these beings, so that they could start over. With the help of Mountain Lion, Coyote, Parrot, & Crow they fashioned four new beings. These four beings performed well & are the ancestors of the Quiché In the beginning was only Tepeu & Gucumatz (Feathered Serpent).
These two sat together & thought, & whatever they thought came into being. They thought earth, & there it was. They thought mountains, & so there were. They thought trees, & sky, & animals etc, & each came into being. But none of these things could praise them, so they formed more advanced beings of clay. But these beings fell apart when they got wet, so they made beings out of wood, but they proved unsatisfactory & caused trouble on the earth. The gods sent a great flood to wipe out these beings, so that they could start over. With the help of Mountain Lion, Coyote, Parrot, & Crow they fashioned four new beings. These four beings performed well & are the ancestors of the Quich.
In the beginning there was only darkness. Suddenly a small bearded man, the One Who Lives Above, appeared rubbing his eyes as if just awakened. The man, the Creator, rubbed his hands together & there appeared a little girl, Girl-Without-Parents. The creator rubbed his face with his hands & there stood the Sun-God. Again Creator rubbed his sweaty brow & from his hands dropped Small-boy. Now there were four gods.Then he created Tarantula, Big Dipper, Wind, Lightning-Maker & Lightning-Rumbler. All four gods shook hands so that their sweat mixed together. Then Creator rubbed his palms together from which fell a small round, brown ball. They took turns kicking it & with each kick the ball grew larger. Creator told Wind to go inside the ball & blow it up. Then Tarantula spun a black cord which he attached to the ball & went to the east pulling as hard as he could.
He repeated this exercise with a blue cord to the south, a yellow cord to the west & a white cord to the north. When he was done the brown ball had become the earth. The Creator again rubbed his hands & there appeared Hummingbird. "Fly all over this earth," said Creator to Hummingbird, "and tell us what you see." When he returned Hummingbird reported that there was water on the west side. But the earth rolled & bounced, so Creator made four giant posts one each black, blue, yellow & white & had Wind place them at the four cardinal points of the earth. The earth was now still. The creation of the people, animals, birds, trees, etc takes place hereafter.
Apache Creation Myth 2
In the beginning nothing existed, only darkness was everywhere. Suddenly from the darkness emerged a thin disc, one side yellow & the other side white, appearing suspended in midair. Within the disc sat a small bearded man, Creator, the One Who Lives Above. When he looked into the endless darkness, light appeared above. He looked down & it became a sea of light. To the east, he created yellow streaks of dawn. To the west, tints of many colors appeared everywhere. There were also clouds of different colors. He also created three other gods: a little girl, a Sun-God & a small boy.
Then he created celestial phenomena, the winds, the tarantula, & the earth from the sweat of the four gods mixed together in the Creator's palms, from a small round, brown ball, not much larger than a bean. The world was expanded to its current size by the gods kicking the small brown ball until it expanded. Creator told Wind to go inside the ball & to blow it up.
The tarantula, the trickster character, spun a black cord and, attaching it to the ball, crawled away fast to the east, pulling on the cord with all his strength. Tarantula repeated with a blue cord to the south, a yellow cord to the west, & a white cord to the north. With mighty pulls in each direction, the brown ball stretched to immeasurable size--it became the earth! No hills, mountains, or rivers were visible; only smooth, treeless, brown plains appeared. Then the Creator created the rest of the beings & features of the Earth.
