THE YOKUT MYTH

The Yokut Creation Myth

This myth is a creation earth myth, this myth has the characteristics of a native American myth. The native American characteristics in this myth are : the use of animals thinking  as humans and acting as humans too and it is a short story.

The Yokut creation myth it is an earth-diver kind of myth, we can say that because the earth begin with a primordial ocean and there is a creature(duck) who swims and bring mud to help create the earth.

This myth do not have a happy ending because the rain  comes and  just destroys the mud land and the duck and the eagle have to start to build the earth again.

At the end, The Yokut creation myth says that the Eagle's half became what we call now New Sierra Nevada Mountains, while Crow's half are known as the Coast Mountain range.