Sia Indian Creation Legend

Sia Indian Creation Legend
   In the myth of this New Mexico tribe everything began with the spider weaving a web on which Sus’sistinnako, the creator, played an accompaniment to his songs. As he sang men appeared and then light, and afterwards the Utset sisters, the first women, one of whom was the mother of the Indians and the other of the other races. From them arose various ancestors of the clan totems, Eagle, Coyote, Bear, etc.

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