Zuñi Indian Creation Legend
- Zuñi Indian Creation Legend
The myths of this tribe, which they share with the other Pueblo Indians, tell how at the time of the Deluge mankind sought refuge in deep caves. As the waters receded
Awonawilona, their principal deity, caused the sun to play on the mists spreading over the waters, which dissipated, leaving behind aggregations of green scum which eventually, with the drying up of the flood, became the earth and the sky. After this
Poshaiyankaya, the founder of the tribe, made his way from the caves and found that with the vanishing of the Flood the world was a flat expanse of slippery mud which the sun father dried up, allowing mankind to live. At some time during the Deluge a boy and a girl were sacrificed and thrown into the water. Afterwards two rocks were known as Father and Mother in their memory.
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