Bailee McLachlan

8/23/12

H English III

Yokut Creation Myth

            This creation myth about the development of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Coast Mountain Range is an Earth-Diver Myth. This myth is and Earth-Diver myth because the duck in the story dives down into the ocean to get mud for the Eagle and Crow to try and create land on what they think is a tree stump, in exchange for fish for the ducks hard work. In this myth, food is important just like in all of the other myths because the birds had to give the duck fish (food), for his work on bringing up the mud to create land. “If we supplied fish for Duck, maybe he will bring up more mud than fish.”(2). This quote deals with anthropomorphism because Crow and Eagle have a conversation with each other like humans do when they talk.