Reading Notes: The Creation, Part A

For this week's reading I read the stories from the Great Plains Unit. My favorite story was The Creation from Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson. This story contains two different stories from different groups. They are a little bit similar but if I choose to rewrite this story I will focus more on the first story by the Wazhá zhe group.

I've been wanting to change the setting of a story to outer space. So in my version of the creation of the world I will focus on life being created for all of the creatures on the moon. Some story elements will be the same, but I want to create new ideas that I think would be important for a story set in outer space.

Rather than having animals from earth, I think I will have the characters be aliens. There will be different types of aliens, like those that are suited for water and those that are suited for land. The aliens will all have different abilities like creatures of earth do. In the beginning, they will be floating in space and go to the sun to ask where they come from. The sun will say, "I am your mother, and the moon is your father." They are from outer space, but when they are tired of floating they must settle on the moon and create a home. So they will rely on both their mother and father.

When the aliens get to the moon they have a problem. They won't stop floating because there is no gravity yet, so they aren't able to land on their home. When they ask the sun and moon for help, they hear nothing. As a lesson, they are supposed to figure out what to do themselves.

Outer Space: Source: Wikimedia Commons