Legends and Stories

Sky Woman lived in the cosmic world
Where the Light Tree is blooming

Leaning over a gap
At the foot of the Tree
She slipped and entered into the endless space

Like a star she shone over the night
A small turtle clutched
With all her might to her womb
Whispering secrets of their fate

The animals living in a water bubble
Became frantic
Before the brightness coming toward them

A Turtle afloat in the deluge calmed them
I dream that I am a sky woman
I carry the embryo of a mysterious world
Let us prepare to greet her on my back

Sky Woman was pursuing her journey
Her hands full of seeds
Of plants and animals
Torn out from the Sky World

Birds made her a feathered
Cradling her softly
Until Turtle Island was ready to welcome her

Turtle commanded to the animals
To bring back from the depths of the water
The soil from which peaks and vales would come out

Beaver, Otter and Muskrat dove
Never to return
Grandmother Toad alone
Brought back a few specks of mud

They were laid on Turtle’s shell
That became Sky Woman’s country

At last reunited they sang
We are indivisible in the Creation
I am She She is I
We are forever full of Life

The seeds from the Sky World
Grew rapidly
Allowing Sky Woman
To give birth to a daughter
To whom both mothers offered
he song of the Univers

Woman Healer
And Circle Warrior
Will protect us
Recreating this World
Over and over