The Giant Tree

Kyle Wilson

English

Myth

9/3/12

                                            The Giant Tree

In the beginning there was no light only the dark of the night. The moonlight the world and the stars guided the four sons of the great hunter.  When the father died he was turned in to the great tree. It stood taller than the mountains and touched the sky. The four young brothers where left by themselves to hunt and fish. They sharpened sticks into spears and hunted game. Their father had already created the animals and had put them on the land. Before he died he told his four sons that some day they would have to create a source of light so that they could create people to live on his land.

They lit a fire and burned the bottom of the tree to where it caught fire and was engulfed in flames. The flames rose to the skies and formed into a ball. The ball of fire stayed high in the sky to light the land. The tree was burnt to ashes and the four brothers collected the ashes of the tree and there father and placed them in four different directions across the land. The brothers turned into different animals. One a bear, the second an eagle, the third a coyote and the oldest brother a fox. The people were born and their father’s sprit lived with them and the four brothers watched over them as their chiefs. The lived of the land and were guided by the brothers and lived in peace among each other.