Both the Greek and Cherokee creation stories start with total darkness and both us an animal in the creation of earth the nyx bird is a bird involved with the Greek a nyx bird is a bird with black wings and with the wind laid a golden egg and with that life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros
one half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the earth the sky Uranus and the earth he Gaia
the Cherokee