Myths and legends of Alaska . X o U X? O. MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ALASKA CREATION OF THE WORLD Athapascan (Upper Yukon) ALONG time ago, water flowed all over theworld. There was one family and they madea big raft. Then they put animals on the there was no land but all water, so the peoplewanted to make a world. The man tied a cord arounda beaver and sent him down to find the bottom of thewater. But the beaver got only half-way and the man tied a string around a muskrat and senthim down. Muskrat drowned, but he reached the bot-tom and got a little mud on his hands. Then the m
Myths and legends of Alaska . X o U X? O. MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ALASKA CREATION OF THE WORLD Athapascan (Upper Yukon) ALONG time ago, water flowed all over theworld. There was one family and they madea big raft. Then they put animals on the there was no land but all water, so the peoplewanted to make a world. The man tied a cord arounda beaver and sent him down to find the bottom of thewater. But the beaver got only half-way and the man tied a string around a muskrat and senthim down. Muskrat drowned, but he reached the bot-tom and got a little mud on his hands. Then the mantook the mud out of the muskrats hands into his let it dry and then crumbled it to dust. Then heblew the dust out of his palm all over the waters. Thismade the world. 81 MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ALASKA ORIGIN OF MANKIND Eskimo (Bering Straits) E^G, long ago, a man and a woman came downfrom the sky and landed on one of the DiomedeIslands. They lived there a long while, but theyhad no children. At last one day the man took somewalrus
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