"Before this Earth existed, there was only water. It stretched as far as one could see, and in that water there were birds and animals swimming around."
she tells the chief about the dream
The Ancient Chief got a lot of young men together to try to uproot the tree, but none of them could. So the old man himself pulled and pulled until the tree came out.
The wife of the chief looked down the hole. She thought she had saw something but she had fallen down the hole .
The animals saw that she was falling and the swans flew up to save her.
"She has the Earth," they said. "Now where can we put it?"
So the woman stood on the Earth and with the seeds in her hand, the trees and grass sprang up. Life on Earth had just begun.
