The Sky Tree

The Sky Tree

          This story is talking about the Sky Land. In the beginning, Earth was covered with water. People were living in the Sky Land and all the food that they ate came from the great tree. One day the chief became sick and nothing could cure him. Day after day, he grew weaker and seemed he would die. Then a dream come to him and told him that a method can heal him. He needed to eat the fruit which grow at top of Sky Tree. Then he told his wife Aataentsic to help him to do it. Aataentsic struck it and split in half as soon as possible. After that, a hole opened in Sky Land and the tree fell through the hole. As Aataentsic fell, a turtle looked up and called all the animals to dive down to get the soil. When the animals get the soil and put it onto the turtle’s back. The turtle use the soil to make an island and all the living things grow up again in that island.

          I think this story is the origin myth and some phenomena happened like the

turtle’s back become an island. You can see this type of myth is using the human and the animals to bring out the start of the world.