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Myths of the Cherokee — Part 1 of 22 (How the World Was Made · The First Fire)
Season 12
Episode 1
Published 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Description
The shelf opens with the creation diptych. The earth is a great island hung by four cords from the rock vault of the sky, and the Cherokee country takes its mountains from the tired wings of the Great Buzzard. Then, in a world still cold, the animals hold council for fire: the Raven, the owls and the snakes fail one by one, until the Water Spider spins a bowl from her own thread and carries home a single coal. Source: James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), public domain; fresh in-house renderings faithful to Mooney's record, told in Mooney's order.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:48 How the World Was Made
6:06 The First Fire