Hitchiti-Mikasuki Creation Story
Hitchiti-Mikasuki Creation Story
(as told by my family elder Jayabutu McClellan)
The ground shakes and the opening to the cave is exposed - the
People slowly walk to the opening and look out onto a strange new place -
this is the Mother that had been created for them - but the cave represented
security - as a child can not resist the calling of birth the People could
not resist the calling of the new place. the cave now gave birth to the People
- new life stepped onto the breast of Mother - a beautiful new beginning was
at hand.
The People were greeted by their many brothers and sisters that
the Great Spirit had sent out ahead of them. Grandfather moved in the sky
and kept the cycles in harmony and spoke to the People with his movement.
Kiyas also moved and kept the cycles at the time of darkness and spoke to
the People with his movement. Beyond Kiyas lay the Okiyas lights that were
placed in
order - all were in proper place and harmony for the telling of cycles and
the times of planting, harvest and movement. It was into this place of creation
that the Great Spirit delivered the People at the time of their cave birth.
The People could speak to and understand all of the words of
their four-legged, one-legged, winged, crawler, and swimming brothers and
sisters. By instruction, these brothers taught and guided the People in the
ways of the Great Spirit. Each of the brothers was told to take a small family
group of the People and to teach and guide them. Some of the brothers found
great favor with the Great Spirit and the families of the People were to be
called by the name of these favored brothers.
The wind spirit had breathed life into the People and he too
was given a family of the People that would be called after his name. After
family clan names were given to the People. Each family clan went out and
built their village. No one was to take a wife from their own family clan
- this was never to happen - nothing good could ever come from that marriage
- each young man was to go to another family clan to get a wife - from this
marriage good seeds could be planted in fertile place - and the spirit of
the child would be a good spirit - the child would be a blessing to both family
clans.
Each clan received the gift of their brother who's name they
used. Some were known as healers, some as warriors, some as leaders - each
with their special gift. For many, many cycles the People lived in the way
of harmony - led by those of great wisdom and following the movements of Grandfather,
Kiyas and Okiyas.
The ways of war, greed and jealousy were not known. The bones
of the ancients rested in peace - their ways were the ways of the beginning
and that was the way of harmony and understanding the cycles of life.
Then came a time when the People selected a single leader, and
this leader commanded the clans of warriors, and this leader fell in love
with the movement and cycles of Grandfather - the leader looked to Grandfather
for all answers - the cycles of Kiyas and the placement of Okiyas were used
only for the worship of Grandfather - these things were not in harmony with
the beginning and slowly pain and suffering came to the People.
Walk in Harmony
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Adonaset
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