in the beginning nothing existed, darkness was all around. suddenly from the darkness came a thin disc, one side yellow and the other side white, appearing suspended in midair. within the disc sat a small bearded man, creator, the "one who lives above". when he looked into the endless darkness, light appeared above. he looked down and it became a sea of light. to the east, he created yellow streaks of dawn. to the west, tints of many colors appeared everywhere. there were also clouds of different colors. he also created three other gods: a little girl, a sun god and a small boy. then he created celestial phenomena, the winds, the tarantula, and the earth from the sweat of the four gods mixed together in the creator's palms, from a small round, brown ball, not much larger than a bean. the world was expanded to its current size by the gods kicking the small brown ball. creator told wind to go inside the ball and to blow it up. the tarantula, who knew what to do, spun a black cord and, attaching it to the ball, crawled away fast to the east, pulling on the cord with all his strength. tarantula repeated with a blue cord to the south, a yellow cord to the west, and a white cord to the north. with mighty pulls in each direction, the brown ball stretched to immeasurable size--it became the earth! no hills, mountains, or rivers were visible; only smooth, treeless, brown plains appeared. then the creator created the rest of the beings and features of the earth.