Old Man and the Beginning of the World


This is a story about an old man beginning the world. Old man came from the south, he made the mountains while he was in the mountains he made a antelope out of dirt mountains weren’t the place for it the prairie. While he was making the prairies he made the bighorn sheep, the mountains were better for this animal and he made the forest as he passed along. He also made the birds and the animals; traveling northward he made the rivers and crossed them. He made the people to he started with a women and a child and formed them both out of clay it took four days for the women and child to form into human. As he went along with them he taught them how to hunt, make weapons, dishes and taught them that raw food would make them sick so he taught them how to cook. That’s the Indian version of how the world became.

“Old Man and the Beginning of the World”. 1196. 6 November 2008.