I ran across this on a Mohawk site

[link to www.indianlegend.com]


"According to the prophecy of the Seventh Generation the Onkwehonwe would see the day when birds would fall from the sky, the fish would die in the water, and man would grow ashamed of the way that he had treated his mother and provider, the Earth."

it also mentions the elm trees dying off..elm trees were especially significant because the bark was used to build longhouses.

Also, the story of Ragnarokk, the norse legend about the end of the Norse gods/ end of the world is similar
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I was thinking about this last night after I read the D'Aulaire's version of Ragnarokk as my daughter's choice of bedtime story (morbid I know).

How all cultures have similar creation myths, often involving mud and/or bodily fluids/parts as well as similar 'end of world' myths, yet most of them also talk of a new beginning.

Strangely, the Mohawk creation story of the woman who fell from the sky/ the turtle who became the earth is more like the new beginning stories of other cultures.


and I also wondered...are these stories all similar/cyclical as a distraction?