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Olelbis

by Chris Black, Clarksville Middle School

 
As the creator-god of the Wintun Indians, Olelbis lived in Olelpanti, or heaven. Olelbis lived with two old women and built himself a huge sweathouse to make animals, plants and other things in. The first people who lived on earth fought endlessly with each other. They had wars and built huge bonfires which set fire to everything on the earth. Olelbis summoned the wind and the water to extinguish the fires. A few people had escaped to Olelpanti and Olelbis threw them back to earth with disabilities such as deafness and blindness. Olelbis later felt sorry for them and healed them.

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Estanatlehi

by Dr Anthony E. Smart

 
The sky goddess, wife of the sun. The twin sister of Yolkai Estsan, wife of the moon. The most respected goddess of the Navaho Indians, she is seen as the goddess of change, and it is said that she progresses through age to become an old woman, then becomes a young woman again. She passes through an endless stream of lives, always changing but never dying. Estanatlehi created the primeval pair of humans from maize.

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