Iroquois Sky Woman

myth:iroquois_sky_woman

Sky-Woman falls through a hole in the sky-world toward a shoreless sea. The water-birds rise to bear her up gently, and the animals dive in turn for mud from the deep; the muskrat, last and least, brings up a single pawful at the cost of its life. Spread upon the back of the Great Turtle, the mud grows into the land — Turtle Island. — Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) myth