The Hopi People- Four Creations

The only thing that existed at the beginning was the Creator, Taiowa. Taiowa created his agent to establish nine universes, Sotuknang.
Sotuknang had the task of creating four things

1. He gathered matter and made nine universes
2. He gathered water from the endless space and placed them on the worlds to make land and sea
3. He gathered air to make winds and breezes on these worlds
4. He created life

The first person he created was Spider Woman. Spider Woman had the power to create life- she created Poqanghoya to go across the earth and solidify it, and Palongawhoya to resonate throughout the earth so that the earth vibrated with the energy of Taiowa. 

Spider Woman created all of the plants, flowers, trees, and animals. She made four men and four women, and the only instruction she gave them was the respect their creator and live in harmony.

The people spread across the earth and multiplied, and lived in harmony with the animals for a while, until they started to acknowledge the differences instead of the similarities. There was a division, and Sotuknang appeared before the people who still remembered their creator and went down and found refuge with the ants. Sotuknang destroyed the rest of the world. 

The people living with the ants received food from them, and even though they tried to stop the ants from giving them food, the ants continued to give them food, so the ants kept tightening their belts, and that's why ants have such small waists today.

This happened with two more worlds, and Spider Woman gathered the remaining people and took them on a boat, where they sailed island to island until they finally came ashore, where Sotunkang was waiting for them. 

This was the fourth world, and warned them that it was not as beautiful- there was hot and cold, mountains and valleys. He sent the different people on their way to find homes. The Hopi trekked across the entire world and settled between the Colorado River and the Rio Grande River, picking this place to constantly remind them of their dependence and link to their creator.