Blundering winds soar above a ocean of tranquil water, that reached though each corner of the universe. This ocean remained dark and still, never moving as if it was hoping for something to change. One day a ferocious wave had overcome the ocean turning and shifting , as the days passed the ocean started to slowly calm down and form a figure. This figure had two all seeing eyes and had the head of a fox and the body of the human. Holona, god of everything was created she stood 20 feet tall and and eye that shone of love and caring. Holona thought she should create some out of this vast ocean, so she called upon a collections of icy winds to cast upon the ocean freezing every wave and current it touch and as the day past every corned of the …show more content…
When she had come back she was shocked, none of her seeds had grown and her deer and fox were dead, except one sparkling white fox.
“My family has died of starvation and cold, oh please help us Goddess Holona” the fox cried out.
“My precious fox, I am sorry for the pain you have been through and I say create a better world for you to live in. I will also need your help to help this world flourish” she bellowed to the fox.
“Of course, my goddess” the fox praised.
Bring down her hand, she called upon the fox to come onto her hand. As he fox stood in her hand she closed her fingers around the fox and blow power and wisdom onto the fox, and she open her hand there emerged a figure that had the head of a the fox and had the body of a human. She place down the being, and she called upon him “ You are Siwili god of nature, I need you go go upon this world and help create immense amounts of trees to cover the
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As she look upon her earth she felt if as something was missing from her creation. And as a wave had crashed over her mind she knew what was need to make her world perfect for her children. She created seas some crystal clear waters with calm waters and others with dark murky waters with violent waves crashing over the shore.
She created oceans with unknowingly deep depths occupied with colorful coral reefs with many holes and covered in many different marine plants.
As she look upon her world she dazed from the tops of the highest mountains to the deep, dark, lowly depths of her oceans. She called upon Swilili to view his new found world, as he looked down he was make
Gentle sea breeze tickled my face as I watched wisps of white fluff drifted across a crystal clear blue sky. The rhythmic sound of the wave; the screeching of the sea birds was so familiar and hypnotic at the same time. However, my children’s pearls of laughter turned all the other sounds into background
She gazed at a marsh rabbit and a deer running away. She asked them why they
This story correlates to the lives of many Cherokee Indians, alive and dead, The beliefs, history, and culture all go back to this passage How the world was made. (written by Katharine Judson). Imagine what the US would 've been. The Cherokee Nation believed that the earth had been varnished by water but hanged by cords.
She says, “our world is heroic, its inhabitants half-divine…”, implying that at that time the world was a place to be proud of. She also says, “what a moon we gaze on before that time! How the trembling of our hearts at her aspects bears witness to its utterable
First, the Creating Power sang four songs which brought heavy rains to the world and split the earth with cracks. Water permeated through the cracks until it flooded all life and land. The Creating Power then opened his pipe bag and brought out four animals in which he selected carefully. He asked them to dive into the water and bring up mud, so he could form the land.
And when I gaze on thee I seem in a trance sublime and strange’The powerful river awakens his interior conscious and transfers him into an imaginative ideal realm. He embodies the feeling of the journey of the water, which, resembles his mind, encompasses all the things in the universe. He and the nature thus become
In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron”, Vonnegut uses Harrison’s facial handicaps to symbolize the flaws of complete equality that are hidden from society. Vonnegut’s first use of handicaps to symbolize the government’s attempt to secure their power is when the news anchor shows a picture of Harrison in his handicaps. Based on the image shown on the television, “he wore ... spectacles with thick wavy lenses.(F) The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches” (4). This quotation exhibits the unbelievable amount of control that the government is able to dictate over the people.
She swam deeper than all the other water animals. She pulled hard and hard and hard and was able to pull the Earth from the bottom of the water. They placed the Earth on top of the turtle’s shell. “She stepped onto the new Earth and opened her hand, letting the seeds fall onto the bare soil. From those seeds the trees and the grass sprang up.
An old man comes to earth and informs Coyote that his work is done. He says that coyote will be back first and then the old man will come after him. Using numerous literary techniques-symbolism, imagery, and archetype- Bruchac and Lopez emphasize the theme that the earth as our mother and provider needs to be honored and respected and can never be owned. In “The Sky Tree” the speaker’s use of symbolisms shows the importance of the rooting of the tree throughout the myth.
To begin, the first theme in the story is one thing must end for another to begin. In the story, the have to uproot the tree. Ultimately, because they uprooted the tree, they were able to get the dirt to start the creation of Earth. In the text, it states “The tiny bit of Earth fell on the back of the Turtle. Almost immediately it began to grow larger and larger and larger until it became the whole world.”
The sounds were amplified, the seals barks echoing through the crisp, morning air and the waves zealously slamming against the rocks. The great magnitude of water sweeping up, and slamming against the algae hooded earth. I felt water droplets
The sun was scorching out heat as it was warming up the city. On the other side the ocean was all admirable dark blue. Waves were shattering surfers. But there was something special in the ocean.
In April 2003, Laila "sees no clumps of clouds in the horizon" (Hosseini 362). This last section is set during the spring, delineating an age of optimism, coupled with the clear, cloudless sky. Hosseini demonstrates that this new life that Laila acquires is imbued with lasting positivity. By the word, "horizon," the audience can infer that this happiness will not fade, but rather extend into the
In the World on the Turtle´s Back the Iroquois wanted to emphasize how there was a Sky World, with people that had extravagant beliefs that explained how good and evil balanced everything in their life. This peculiar place had different gods, like Iroquois. They believed in weird thing for example they believed that a Great tree was the center of their universe. The Great Tree wasn’t a habitual tree, it was huge and had been in that place forever. In this Sky World, there was this woman that seemed to break the rules and desire things that are off limit.
“How the World Was Made” presents few examples of these ways of life in an unusual setting. In the story, when the animals were finally able to live on the new earth, the absence of the sun left them in the dark. The animals set the sun on a track to go around the earth; this track however held the sun too close. “It was too hot this way, and… the Red Crawfish, had his shell scorched a bright red, so that his meat was spoiled; and the Cherokee do not eat it.” (“How the World”).