The mythology of the Miwok Native Americans are myths of their world order, their creation stories and 'how things came to be' created. Miwok myths suggest their spiritual and philosophical world view.
In several different creation stories collected from Miwok people, Coyote was seen as their ancestor and creator godsometimes with the help of other animals, forming the earth and making people out of humble materials like feathers or twigs. According to Miwok mythology, the people believed in animal and human spirits, and spoke of animal spirits as their ancestors. Coyote in many tales figures as their ancestor, creator godand a trickster god.
The Miwok believed there existed a "people who lived before real people" who in some tales have died out, in others are the same as the supernatural animal spirits. Several creation fragments exist detailing Coyote's place in the family of the "first spirits" on earth. According to the Coast Miwok, Coyote was the declared grandfather of the Falcon.
There existed animal spirits and a few star-people spirits. According to one Coast Miwok version "Coyote shook his walik" something similar to a blanket of tule to the four directions south, east, north and west. The water dried, and land appeared.
In one creation myth called The Diver Coyote creates the earth ameeican land from the Ocean or endless water. Coyote sends a turtle to dive into the Ocean for some "earth". The turtle dives to the bottom and comes up with some "earth". Coyote takes the earth and mixes it with "Chanit" seeds and water. The mixture swells and "the earth was there.
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Another creation story says that there is "no earth, only water". Silver Fox a vixen feels lonely and mentions this in a prayer song, and then meets the Coyote. Silver Fox makes an artistic proposal: "We will sing the world". They create the world here by dancing and singing.
As they do so, the earth forms and takes shape. In The Creation of Humans myth, Coyote catches a turkey buzzard, raven and crow, plucks their feathers and place the feathers in different parts of the earth. They turn into the Miwok people and their villages. Coyote comes from the west alone, followed by Chicken Hawk, who is his grandson.
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Coyote turned "his ameeican people" into animals. He made the Pomo people from mud and the Miwok people out of sticks. In the myth How Kah'-kah-loo The Ravens Became Peoplethere was an epic flood, and the first world people climbed a mountain to avoid drowning. The water finally receded.]
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