The Probert Encyclopaedia of North American Indian Mythology

DAYUNSI

In Cherokee mythology, Dayunsi made the earth. In the days when no worlds existed but sky and ocean, all iving things were crammed together in sky, and were crying out for living space. Dayunsi alone lived in the ocean and dived to the bottom and brough up a speck of mud which the Powerful One, the Creator, hung from the sky on ropes one at each compass point. As soon as the earth was dry the creatures of sky let themselves down on ropes to tenant it.
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