ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sky Woman stepped onto that land and created the moon, sun and stars. She gave birth to twin sons, Sapling and Flint. Sapling was the good son and Flint, the evil one. Sapling created all that is good in the world while Flint worked to destroy it.

Detailed explanation-2: -In “Myths of the Cherokee, ” published in The Journal of American Folklore, he recorded the nation’s origin story, in which the Cherokee conceived of the earth as “a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault. . . .

Detailed explanation-3: -2) Encyclopedia Britannica classifies creation myth into six types: cre-ation by creator, creation through emergence, creation by world parents, creation from the cosmic egg, creation by Earth divers, creation by corpse transformation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Creation through emergence. In contrast to the creation by a supreme sky deity, there is another type of creation myth in which the creation seems to emerge through its own inner power from under the earth.