Daughter of the west wind

-Rakarota

NOTES: All creation myths have a common purpose and in turn are equally valid. The storyteller who is said to have told this one asked the question: "This is my story. Do you wish to hear it told?" The deeply personal nature of creation myths reveal our complete reliance on our imaginations in explaining the origin of things. In this story the woman in skyland restlessly persues her dreams until she falls to the earth below. Her desire for change is answered by the world around her and the forces that helped her are not forgotten.

And when her child was

born - first on the new earth

- that child was a girl. A girl

who would marry the west

wind.

THE END