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The Four Worlds

The emergence myth told by the Hopi people of Arizona relates how, when the world was created, there were four worlds: this world and three cave worlds beneath. The first creatures lived in the lowest cave. When it grew overcrowded and dirth, twin brothers came from   heaven with all the plants of the world, hoping that one would prove tall and strong enough to allow every being to climb to the world above. The cane proved ideal. After a time, the second cave also became full and creatures climbed the cane into the third cave. There , the two brother gods found fire and, by its light, people built houses and could travel. But a time of evil came upon the,, and the people climbed up to this, the fourth world, led by the two brothers.