my myth

Bailee Mclachlan

H English III

9/3/12

The Seed that Created Life

Once upon a time there were only 4 great rivers among the earth. Where the great rivers met, there was a fairly large island. One day, there was a seed from a tree floating down one of the rivers, the seed eventually landed on the shore of the island where the great rivers all met. It took only but a couple of days for this tree to grow from that tiny seed, and the great rivers had worked their magic. The seed and the rivers created the biggest tree ever, and from it humans were created. Once there were enough humans to where they could populate the island and then they could spread across the earth, animals were made from the tree so that the humans could hunt and live off of the animals. After there were enough animals to produce a large amount of population of each kind, the tree grew fruit. The fruit was very special because it could give the animal’s intelligence and the power to talk, and it also created another food source for the humans. The fruit gave power to the people in a way that they were very good hunters, were strong, were very fast, and were very intelligent just like the animals. One day, there was a massive rain shower that covered the entire earth and all the water caused a huge flood. The flood covered all of the land so quickly and the people thought even quicker. They all started climbing the huge tree on the island where the four rivers met. If the waters rose, so did the humans. They stayed up in the tree for weeks until the flood went down and since the tree grew fruit after the humans and animals were all made, they ate from the tree to stay alive. The waters finally went back down to the normal levels and all of the humans were back on land but something was missing. The land animals had all drowned and somehow, the tree on the island knew this and once again created the animals, enough to create a population of each kind so that the humans could hunt and live off of the animals. Once the animals were all done being created, the tree, forever more, grew that special fruit and all of the new animals got the same powers that the old animals had and communicated with each other and the people.