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CHEROKEE LEGEND - Sculptures
Featured In Chattanooga, TN
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Handmade
Made In USA
Based on a Cherokee legend which goes like this:
The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water and suspended at each of the four carinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock.
When all was water the animals were above, but it was crowded and they wanted more room. They wondered what was below the water. The little water beetle offered to go and see if it could learn. It dared in every direction over the surface of the water but could find no firm place to rest. Then it dived to the bottom and came up with some soft mud, which began to grow and spread on every side until it became the island, we call earth. At first the Earth was flat and very softy and wet. The animals sent down the great buzzard, and he flew all over the Earth, and when he reached Cherokee country, he was very tired and his wings began to flap and strike the ground, and wherever they struck the Earth was a valley and when they turned up again there was a mountain. When the animals above saw this, they were afraid that the whole world would be mountains, so they called him back, but the Cherokee country remains full of mountains to this day.
The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water and suspended at each of the four carinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock.
When all was water the animals were above, but it was crowded and they wanted more room. They wondered what was below the water. The little water beetle offered to go and see if it could learn. It dared in every direction over the surface of the water but could find no firm place to rest. Then it dived to the bottom and came up with some soft mud, which began to grow and spread on every side until it became the island, we call earth. At first the Earth was flat and very softy and wet. The animals sent down the great buzzard, and he flew all over the Earth, and when he reached Cherokee country, he was very tired and his wings began to flap and strike the ground, and wherever they struck the Earth was a valley and when they turned up again there was a mountain. When the animals above saw this, they were afraid that the whole world would be mountains, so they called him back, but the Cherokee country remains full of mountains to this day.
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