Question
In Iroquois mythology, a group of animals, including a beaver and a duck, do this action immediately after the Sky Woman falls from the sky. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action done in many Native American creation myths to create land. In many Slavic myths, the Devil does this action after God and the Devil agree to create the world.
ANSWER: diving into the water [accept earth diver or any equivalent about somebody diving or going into the water; prompt on bringing up sand or bringing up earth or other equivalents thereof with “doing what action in order to bring up sand?”]
[10e] In these people’s creation myth, the water beetle dives down to bring up mud, making the Earth. A serpent called the Uktena lives in these people’s Western North Carolina and Georgia homeland, which many left on the Trail of Tears.
ANSWER: Cherokee [accept Anigiduwagi or Tsalagi]
[10m] Earth divers are often figures referred to by this term from the study of mythology. This two-word term refers to a figure central to an ethnic tradition who plays an important role as an inventor or discoverer.
ANSWER: culture hero [accept Heilbringer]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Mythology>
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