Atahensic

Visits his people.

His grandmother Ataensic.

Ioskia as father of his mother.

Similar conceptions in Egyptian myths.

Derivation of Ioskia and Ataensic.

Ioskia as Thauron Hiawakon, the sky supporter.

His brother Tawaskara or Tehoten Hiarion identified.

It was the culture that helped me, really, where it was like, I can do anything.

If Sky Woman was one being and one woman that had brought the whole rest of creation, it was just her.

She fulfilled both those roles.

She sang and she danced those first dances.

layer of the snow melts during the day and then freezes at night When the Haudenosaunee count from 1 to 10, they're not just counting, they're also telling their story of how the land came into existence and reaffirming their ties to it.

Like the word for one is also the word for Sky Woman, who arrived first in their creation story.

The word for two refers to Sky Woman's daughter who came next, and the word for three refers to Sky Woman's daughter and her twin grandsons.

All these connections exist on a mind-blowing timescale.

So ancient, it's often described as since time immemorial.

Visits his people.

His grandmother Ataensic.

Ioskia as father of his mother.

Similar conceptions in Egyptian myths.

Derivation of Ioskia and Ataensic.

Ioskia is Tharon Hayawakan, the sky supporter.

His brother Tawaskara or Tehoten Hayarion identified.

Do you think, and I'm aware this is probably a massive can of worms I'm about to open up, but do you think there are any big, totemic stories people really ought to know from the Native American cultures? Are there any particular folk heroes? Are there monsters? Are there landscape features which are the centre of legends? that everyone kind of ought to know

there really are so many something that that I think is really important a figure that I think about quite a lot is a woman named Sky Woman and this is the this is really how the world was created in our creation narrative and we think about these not, you know, they're stories that, you know, we could call them folktales, but they're actually more like, you know, theologies, right? Like they're spiritual, religious teachings, the understandings of the way the world is ordered.

And this particular narrative is that they're, and this can be told in a very long way, I'll give you a shorter way, of understanding it that in the very beginning of time there was a time before time and there's a whole world in up in the sky it's called sky world and in sky world there is a celestial tree and that tree has light has everything that's needed to take care of the people in Skyworld and there's a story of a woman who is pregnant and the tree is uprooted and some people say that her husband uprooted the tree others say it was uprooted or it fell over but this woman who also carries the name Mature Blossom starts to look through the hole and she becomes curious and more curious and wants to know more and leans over so far that she begins to fall into an abyss into a very dark world in the meantime there's also below a world called water world And that's where all the animals are.

And they look up and they see this strange thing falling from really far up.

If it hits the water, it's going to get shattered and die.

So we don't know what's coming, but let's see if we can help.

And a flock of swans, sometimes it's a flock of geese, fly up and they catch Sky Woman on their wings to slow her fall down.

and then up from the bottoms of the water arises a huge turtle a massive turtle and they're like well that's that's helpful but if this thing hits a very hard shell it's not going to make it so the animals get together and they remember that far below the water there's something called Earth.