The Iroquois Myth of the Creation of the World (full version)
The Iroquois myth of the creation of the world, known as “The Story of the Woman Who Fell from the Sky”, is the centerpiece of the cosmology of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples. It has been passed down orally for centuries and was first recorded in the nineteenth century by David Kasik. According to this myth, …