Chelan Creation Story
The Chelan Creation Story is a deus
faber myth. There is only one God/creator in this story. First the Creator
created the animals and the birds and gave them all names. After he had to
leave but would return to create humans to be in charge of the animals and the
birds. When the Creator returned some animals and birds did not like their
names and demanded they’d be changed, but the Creator said, “No” and did not
make the humans because they disobeyed him. In the place of human beings the
creator made water and snow to wash away the soil the animals and the birds
brought to him. The great chief made a beaver so that it will someday be made
into a human by the creatures as long as they are good. The great chief put
coyote in charge of the creatures since someday they all will become bad and
eat each other. The Creator still had all the power but he gave only a little
to Coyote. Coyote was not good and didn’t follow the rules so he was not the
first to make a human being. Out of the four wolf brothers, the Creator put the
youngest wolf brother in charge and the power to take beaver from the water.
The oldest wolf brother and the youngest wolf brother went out one night to
kill the beaver that the Creator had made and to turn it into human. Youngest
brother had killed the big beaver and could only cut it into eleven pieces,
when it was to be split into twelve pieces. Each eleven pieces became a new
tribe. The last tribe was made from the blood of the beaver.
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