My Myth

            At the beginning of time, there were four animals. A crow named Darnell, a prairie dog named Quantavious, a wolf named Shaniqua, and an otter named Jim and they lived in harmony as the only four creatures in the world. The crow stayed in the skies flying around day and night, the prairie dog stayed underground, the wolf stayed in the forest, and the otter stayed in the water. They were always separated, for the crow was always north in the sky, the prairie dog was always south in the ground, the wolf was always east in the forest, and the otter was always west in the ocean.

            One day, the great chief descended from the heavens to give them a special message.

            “You four animals must work together and combine your worlds and make it livable for a special new species called human beings,” He said. So the animals began to work. The prairie dog dug giant canals, which otter filled with water, and they became valleys. Wolf and crow planted trees all over the earth, to form many forests in every direction. Eventually, the four different worlds became one, and the great chief descended once again.

            “You have successfully integrated your worlds together. Now you must add humans to your new world,” He ordered. He handed each animal a bag of magical seeds. “These seeds when planted, will form into human beings,”

            They accepted their bags and went to form the first human beings. They each planted their seeds in different parts of the world and formed the first people.