In the myth How Kah'-kah-loo The Ravens Became People, there was an epic flood, and the first world people climbed a mountain to avoid drowning. He made the Pomo people from mud and the Miwok people out of sticks. Coyote turned "his first people" into animals. Coast Miwok (Coyote and Chicken Hawk) Ĭoyote comes from the west alone, followed by Chicken Hawk, who is his grandson. They turn into the Miwok people and their villages.
In The Creation of Humans myth, Coyote catches a turkey buzzard, raven and crow, plucks their feathers and place the feathers in different parts of the earth. Creation of Humankind Īrtistic interpretation of Coyote Coast Miwok (Coyote and Turkey Buzzard) As they do so, the earth forms and takes shape. They create the world together by dancing and singing. Silver Fox makes an artistic proposal: "We will sing the world". Silver Fox (a vixen) feels lonely and mentions this in a prayer song, and then meets the Coyote. The mixture swells and "the earth was there." Coyote and Silver Fox Īnother creation story says that there is "no earth, only water". Coyote takes the earth and mixes it with "Chanit" seeds and water. The turtle dives to the bottom and comes up with some "earth". Coyote sends a turtle to dive into the Ocean for some "earth". In one creation myth called The Diver Coyote creates the earth and land from the Ocean or endless water.
From the Sacramento river area the Miwok gave the following names of the first spirits: There existed animal spirits and a few star-people spirits.
According to the Coast Miwok, Coyote was the declared grandfather of the Falcon. Several creation fragments exist detailing Coyote's place in the family of the "first spirits" on earth. The Miwok believed there existed a "people who lived before real people" who in some tales have died out, in others are the same as the supernatural animal spirits.
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