My creation story with information from http://roland.web.gu/fire.htm, is a Chamoru story coming from the islnd of Guam.
In the beginning, in the limitless of space, before the creation of the earth and the sky, there
lived an omnipotent man named Puntan. After eons of time had transversed, Puntan felt
himself about to die, so he summoned his sister, Fu'una, who, like himself, had been born
without either father or mother, and gave her explicit directions as to the disposal of his
body, and conferred upon her all his miraculous powers. He decreed that upon his death
his eyes should become the sun and the moon; his breast, the sky; his back, the earth; his
eyebrows, the rainbow; and rest of his anatomical parts, the lesser things of the world and
the nether regions. In due time Puntan died and Fu'una (or Fotna "Chamoru for the
beginning") carried out her brother's wishes faithfully, and so, the world was created. WITH
HIS BODY, SHE MADE THE EARTH; WITH HIS BREAST, SHE MADE THE SKY; WITH THE
RIGHT EYE, SHE MADE THE SUN; WITH THE LEFT EYE, SHE MADE THE STARS and the
MOON; AND WITH HIS EYEBROWS, SHE MADE THE RAINBOWS; When Fu'una contemplated
the beautiful earth that had been brought into being by her brother's command she
decided that it should be peopled with men and women created in the likeness of her
brother and herself. So, to this end, in order to best accomplish her purpose, she
established herself as a sea-girt rock in Southern Guam, and after she had done this she
decreed, on her own account, that a certain kind of earth on this rock should first become a
stone which would in time give birth to all men. So she gathered a great quantity of this
earth, mixed it with the waters of the sea and caused it to solidify into a great stone. Then
she commanded that this stone divide itself into many stones, a great number of which she
imbued with life, and thus they became the human stock from which the races of men were
disseminated throughout the world
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