Woman Who Fell from the Sky The Iroquois Story of Creation

In this reissue of John Bierhorst and Robert Andrew Parker's fresh, authoritative retelling of the Iroquois creation story, the world as we know it today begins with a woman and her two small children, whose voices she hears coming from "under her heart." Using her powers of creation, she forms the earth itself, then throws a handful of stars into the air. As her twin children are born, joining her in her work, all nature comes to life -- soil, trees, birds, animals, rivers, and the seasons. Simple, yet profound in its imagery, the story explains how there are two minds in the universe -- one that is hard and one that is gentle -- and how we ourselves are all children of the woman who fell from the sky.Bierhorst, John is the author of 'Woman Who Fell from the Sky The Iroquois Story of Creation' with ISBN 9781571781208 and ISBN 157178120X.