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Delahoyde & Hughes
Orpheus
THE MIWOK
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The Miwok, an American west coast tribe, have a story in which originally
there is "no earth, only water" (3). Silver Fox (a female) expresses her
loneliness in a sort of prayer song and encounters Coyote. That it takes
two to create makes perfect mythological sense, as does Silver Fox's
artistic proposal: "We will sing the world" (4). Here, creation is not
the relatively severe "dividing" that God does, but artistic expression.
"They danced and sang and beneath them Earth took shape" (4).
"Silver Fox and Coyote Create Earth." Native American Animal
Stories. Ed. Joseph Bruchac. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 1992. 3-4.