In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

In my school year plan, I had to choose between 5 weeks in Sep and 5 weeks in Oct. Of course, I'd love to do Fibers & Clothing forever, but there's no need to. We have Handwork as an ongoing special subject anyway, so we can always dye yarn and sew on our own time.

Having a Handwork basket works really well for when people need a fidget during a long story, or they have just a few minutes to kill before lunch.

I think the better plan is to give five weeks to Virginia Hamilton's amazing book, In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World. It's beautifully written (it was a Newbery honor)! If we do five weeks, we can do two stories per week, and that way they don't run together and blur.

So now I have to pick which chapters we will do! Only 10 from a list of 25...

The Pea-Pod Man
Raven the Creator

Finding Night
Quat the Creator

An Endless Sea of Mud
Death the Creator

Bursting from the Hen's Egg
Phan Ku the Creator

Traveling to Form the World
Old Man the Creator

First Man Becomes the Devil
Ulgen the Creator

Turtle Dives to the Bottom of the Sea
Earth Starter the Creator

Moon and Sun
Mawu-Lisa the Creators

Bandicoots Come from His Body
Karora the Creator

Spider Ananse Finds Something
Wulbari the Creator

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Divine Woman the Creator

Man Copies God
Nyambi the Creator

The Frost Giant
Imir the Creator

Owner of the Sky
Olorun the Creator

Marduk, God of Gods
Apsu and Tiamat the Creators

Four Creators to Make Man
Maker and Feathered Serpent the Creators

The Angry Gods
Ta-aroa the Creator

Sun, Life, Wind, and Death
God Lowa the Creator

The Sun-God and the Dragon
God Ra the Creator

Separation of Earth and Sky
Sedi and Melo the Creators

First Man, First Woman
Yahweh the Creator

The Coming of All Things
The Greek Creators

The God Brings Fire to Man
Prometheus the Creator

Pandora
Zeus the Creator

In the Beginning
Elohim the Creator

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