{"id":25419,"date":"2023-09-30T22:29:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=25419"},"modified":"2023-10-21T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:25:08","slug":"episode-876-in-the-beginng-a-creation-story-sky-woman-fell-from-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=25419","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 876 IN THE BEGINNG…A CREATION STORY…SKY WOMAN FELL FROM THE CLOUDS"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 876  iIN THE BEGINNING\u2026SKY WOMAN FELL FROM THE CLOUDS…<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Sept. 29 2023<\/div>\n

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NOTE: THE story of Sky Woman fascinated me . Why?  Because her rescue was done by <\/div>\n
 the creatures on earth.   There exists harmony between humans and all living things<\/div>\n
in this creation story.  Seems a nicer CREATION STORY  than Adam and Eve.<\/div>\n

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SKY WOMAN<\/div>\n

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An excerpt from a book you will never read<\/div>\n
titled YOUR HOME ON NATIVE LAND, a book I wrote in the hope<\/div>\n
it would improve young  Canadians understanding of  our native people.<\/div>\n
The book never got that chance.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhere did we come from?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cHow did we get here?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat was the FIRST CAUSE?<\/div>\n
\u201cCan something be created from nothing?\u201d<\/div>\n

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Questions such as these have bedevilled thinking people .  These questions do not seem<\/div>\n
to have bedevilled non-thikeers as much.  So I write this for thinkers.<\/div>\n

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When I wrote YOUR HOME ON NATIVE LAND some time ago the trigger mechanism in<\/div>\n
my brain was the Turtle legend common to many aboriginal peoples in eastern North America.<\/div>\n
It is a story\u2026a legend\u2026.a myth\u2026a \u2018belief\u2019 that makes more sense than Adam and Eve<\/div>\n
because the story is in harmony with other living creatures on planet earth.<\/div>\n

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Initially, like Adam and Eve, the \u2018giant Turtle\u2019 story was told orallly and therefore changed a <\/div>\n
little with each telling.  But the essence never changed, The story was recorded in print after the arrival of Europeans.<\/div>\n
Relatively recently.<\/div>\n

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No doubt my version differs from other versions.  So be it.  I write this as if it was told tome by a wise<\/div>\n
aboriginal leader.  A woman.<\/div>\n

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IN THE BEGINNING<\/div>\n

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\u201cIn the beginning\u201d the earth was covered in water.  There was no land.<\/div>\n
The gods lived in peace abed the clouds with covered the earth.<\/div>\n

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One day a tree fell over and poked a hole one clouds.<\/div>\n

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Sky Woman was  curious and she peeked through the hole at the watery<\/div>\n
earth below.   She leaned over too far and fell through the hole in the clouds.<\/div>\n

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She was falling faster and faster when a loon saw her.   The loon flew under and<\/div>\n
Sky Woman landed on the loon\u2019s back.<\/div>\n

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She was heavy and the loon cried out to the creatures below for help lest Sky Woman drown.<\/div>\n

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The Great  Turtle told the Loon to \u2018let Sky Woman land on my back\u2019 <\/div>\n

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But the back of the turtle was too small so the turtle gathered all the <\/div>\n
living  creatures in the watery world for a conference.<\/div>\n

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\u201cSky Woman needs more space.\u201d<\/div>\n

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And so the water animals\u2026the loon, goose, beaver, otter and muskrat began to dive <\/div>\n
down deep in the water world.   \u2018They tried to reach the muddy bottom<\/div>\n
They tried often but failed.   Then the lowliest of the water animals, the<\/div>\n
muskrat, made one last effort.   The muskrat dived deep\u2026too deep<\/div>\n
to keep alive \u2026.but, in the muskrat\u2019s last living act clutch a paw of<\/div>\n
mud which was carried to the top of the water.<\/div>\n

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The other water animals opened the muscrat\u2019s paw where it <\/div>\n
clutched a ball of mud.  \u201cWhat should we do?\u201d  they asked.<\/div>\n
Then the wise old turtle said.   \u201cPress the mud on the edge of my<\/div>\n
body.\u201d  And when they did so the mud began to grow larger<\/div>\n
an larger unitil  the back of the turtle became the land we know<\/div>\n
today.<\/div>\n

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WHERE DID OTHER HUMANS ORIGNATE?<\/div>\n

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Sky Woman was piegnant when she fell.   In time she bore two<\/div>\n
sons.  The sons did not like each other.   One son was good<\/div>\n
and one was bad.  They fought bitterly and  the bad son<\/div>\n
nearly killed the good son.  Both lived <\/div>\n

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As might be expected various speakers in an oral society<\/div>\n
would make changes But the essence of the story is still intact<\/div>\n

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-a water covered plant <\/div>\n
-gods living above the clouds<\/div>\n
-a fall through a hole in the clouds<\/div>\n
-Sky Woman falling<\/div>\n
-rescue by a loon or a goose<\/div>\n
\u2014haven provided by the Great Turtle<\/div>\n
-need for living space <\/div>\n
-all animals attempt to get mud<\/div>\n
 – most fail<\/div>\n
-lowly muskrat succeeds <\/div>\n
-mud multiplies to become land in the watery world\u2019<\/div>\n
-Sky Woman was pregnant and had two sons<\/div>\n
-one son was good, the other was evil <\/div>\n
-they fight<\/div>\n

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STORIES OF CREATION ALL ORIIGINATED AS ORAL STORIES TOLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN. <\/div>\n
EVENTUALLY THEY WERE TRANSCRIBED AS WITH THE BOOK OF GENESIS AROUND  500 BC<\/div>\n
OR IN THE TIME OF NOAH…<\/div>\n
AND  THE ABORIGINAL CREATION STOIES  TRASCRIBED BY EUROPENS IN HE 19TH CENTURY.<\/div>\n

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BOOK OF GENESIS<\/div>\n
Genesis 1:1 forms the basis for the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation out of nothing (<\/span>creatio ex nihilo<\/a><\/i>) and some scholars still support this reading,<\/span>[5]<\/a><\/sup> but most scholars agree that on strictly linguistic and exegetical grounds, this is not the preferred option,<\/span>[6]<\/a><\/sup>[7]<\/a><\/sup>[8]<\/a><\/sup> and that the authors of Genesis 1, writing around 500\u2013400 BCE,<\/span><\/div>\n

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Most of the myths from this region were first transcribed by ethnologists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These sources were collected from Native American elders who still had strong connections to the traditions of their ancestors. They may be considered the most authentic surviving records of the ancient stories, and thus form the basis of the descriptions below.[2]<\/a><\/sup>[better source needed<\/span><\/a><\/i>]<\/sup><\/div>\n

<\/span>Northeast (Southeastern Canada and Northeastern US, including the Great Lakes)<\/span><\/h3>\n
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From the full moon fell Nokomis<\/a> \u2013 from The Story of Hiawatha, 1910[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Myths from this region feature female deities, such as the creator, Big Turtle;[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup> and First Mother, from whose body grew the first corn and tobacco.[6]<\/a><\/sup> The two great divine culture heroes are Glooskap<\/a>[7]<\/a><\/sup>[8]<\/a><\/sup> and Manabus.[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n
Other stories explore the complex relationships between animals and human beings. Some myths were originally recited as verse narratives.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 876  iIN THE BEGINNING\u2026SKY WOMAN FELL FROM THE CLOUDS… alan skeoch Sept. 29 2023 NOTE: THE story of Sky Woman fascinated me . Why?  Because her rescue was done by   the creatures on earth.   There exists harmony between humans and all living things in this creation story.  Seems a nicer CREATION STORY  than Adam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}