The Great Power and The Great Spirit (Genesis 1)

In an attempt to describe how everything around them came to be, the earliest cultures of the world shared poetic stories similar to this one:

Billions of years ago, a great power in the universe created the the sky above our heads and earth below our feet. There was nothing in the universe except a watery darkness. The Great Power had a Great Spirit that helped it, and the Spirit flew over all the waters. The Great Power said to the Spirit: "Turn on the lights." And the lights turned on. The Great Power liked the light because it took away the darkness and made it easier to see what the Great Power was doing. The Great Power gave light the name "day." And to the darnkness, the Great Power gave the name "night." This all happened on the first day of the Great Power's creation plan.

Then the Great Power told the Great Spirit, "We need to build a home, so separate some of the water from the rest." And the Great Spirit created a gap between the two water masses. The Great Power called the gap between the waters the "heavens." And this all happened on the second day of the Great Power's creation plan.

Then the Great Power told the Great Spirit, "Put all the waters below the heavens into one bowl. and let some of it dry up." When some of the water dried up, rocky textures began to develop, and the Great Power called this "land." The Great Power named the waters that didn't dry up "seas." Then the Great Power told the Great Spirit, "Mix together the water and the land to create plants, and make sure they can reproduce themselves as well as create other kinds of plants." And after the Great Spirit mixed the seas and land together, plants started showing up everywhere. The Great Power loved what it saw, and this all happened on the third day of Great Power's creation plan.

Then the Great Power told the Great Spirit, "Throw some lights into the heavens so we can tell between day and night, and let them tell us when the earth is changing." And so the Great Spirit made two lights - one to control the day and one to control the night. The Great Spirit also threw into the heavens uncountable amounts of different lights, and the Great Power named them "stars." The Great Power loved what became of the heavens, the day, and the night, and this all happened on the forth day of the creation plan.

Then the Great Power said to the Great Spirit, "Fill the seas and the skies with creatures like you and me." And the Great Spirit created the sea monsters and every creature that lives in the sea. It also created every bird that flies in the air. And the Great Power loved what it saw. And the Great Power spoke to the fish and birds, "Produce more of yourselves and different kinds of yourselves. Fill every bit of water and every bit of sky with yourselves." This all happened on the fifth day of the Great Power's creation plan.

Then the Great Power told the Great Spirit, "Create living creatures that live on land, and let them evolve into different kinds of themselves." And the Great Spirit created the beasts of the earth and the cattle, and all the serpents and things that crawl on the ground. The Great Power like what it saw.

Then the Great Power told the Great Spirit, "Lets make a creature that's just like us. They'll talk to each other just like we do. They'll create just like we do. Let them tell the fish and the birds and the beasts what to do for now on." And so the Great Spirit created two more kinds of living creatures very similar to each other, and very similar to the Great Power and Great Spirit. The Great Power called one male and the other female, and told them, "Reproduce yourselves and fill the earth, and produce different kinds of yourself. Tell every living creature on the earth and in the seas what to do because you're in charge of them. Also, use all the plants and trees to feed yourselves and the other living creatures, for they are what produce life for the living creatures." And the Great Power loved what it saw, and this all happened on the sixth day of the creation plan.