Myths & Legends of California — Createspace

Myths and Legends of California, This Zuni myth typifies the Indian tribes of the southwest in the beauty of their language and their insight. "In the beginning of the New-making, the ancient fathers lived successively in four caves in the Four fold-containing-earth. The first was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time; the second, dark as the night in the stormy season; the third, like a valley in starlight; the fourth, with a light like the dawning. Then they came up in the night-shine into the World of Knowing and Seeing." Some of the myths included are The Gods and the Six Regions, How Old Man Above Created the World- Shastika (Cal.), The Course of the Sun--Sia (New Mexico), The Foxes and the Sun--Yurok (near Klamath River, Cal.), The Cloud People--Sia (New Mexico), Rain Song--Sia (New Mexico), and The Boy and the Beast--Pima (Arizona).