Well, there are a few. There's ones about the sea, animals, humans.. Creation stories have always been a major staple of any society. I just have a fondness for the ones my grandma learned from her home. She came from an island, so they have lots of interesting ones.
They told of how the stars were actually pearls thrown into the sky by a god that wanted to impress his lover. He took all the pearls in the world, which angered the other gods so much that they cursed him to be trapped in the ocean. He turned himself into a giant fish, but that's a whole other story to tell.
The biggest and brightest pearls became the Pole stars, which is what all the fishermen use even today.
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Well, there are a few. There's ones about the sea, animals, humans.. Creation stories have always been a major staple of any society. I just have a fondness for the ones my grandma learned from her home. She came from an island, so they have lots of interesting ones.
They told of how the stars were actually pearls thrown into the sky by a god that wanted to impress his lover. He took all the pearls in the world, which angered the other gods so much that they cursed him to be trapped in the ocean. He turned himself into a giant fish, but that's a whole other story to tell.
The biggest and brightest pearls became the Pole stars, which is what all the fishermen use even today.
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