THE EARTH ON TURTLE'S BACK

Today in class we read a story about a myth that the Native American's told their children and family member's on how the earth was made. They didn't have any idea on how the earth was made so they made up a myth, that would give them at least and idea on how the earth was made. At first I thought wow this is just another fairytale people tell their kids when they are young, like they did when I was young. But this actually had meaning. I thought this was a great way to tell a story to a child. Whenever my parents told me a myth it was one of those scary ones where he would say, "if you don't behave good the llorona will come for you" so I knew I always had to behave good. But the way they explained the story on how the earth was made was very interesting on how creative they were.