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Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : Native American
18th Century

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English version by
Frank Russell

The Creation of the Earth

Themes
  Mountain
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Sky Clears: Poetry of the American Indians, Edited by A. Grove Day
Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Song-Poems, by Brian Swann

Earth Magician shapes the world.
     Behold what he can do!
Round and smooth he molds it.
     Behold what he can do!
Earth Magician makes the mountains.
     Heed what he has to say!
He it is that makes the mesas.
     Heed what he has to say.
Earth Magician shapes the world;
     Earth Magician makes its mountains;
Makes all larger, larger, larger.
     Into the earth the Magician glances,
Into its mountains he may see.

 

 

-- from The Sky Clears: Poetry of the American Indians, Edited by A. Grove Day

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