In "The Earth on Turtle's Back," "When Grizzlies Walked Upright," and the creation story of Adam and Eve from the Bible, women are depicted as unworthy side effects that, though used as maids to man in these myths, are critical to the existence of old and modern life. The men of the Onondaga tribe and the Modocs use women to do his job. Women are more likely to be held responsible for anything that goes wrong when men leave the job to her. In the Modoc's "When Grizzlies Walked Upright," the Sky Spirit compels his daughter to tell the Wind Spirit to "blow more gently." The daughter is zealous and submissive to her father. Readers see the same traits in the other two myths. The women do not gain a name until she has done something commendable enough to have one. The Sky Spirit calls his daughter by the dependent term "youngest daughter" that relies on a father. In the Onondaga's "Earth on Turtle's Back," the Sky Chief's pregnant wife takes the physical and emotional fall. Typically, men try to prove themselves ruler over all with egotistical authority and dominion, especially over women. When something is not done right by man, a woman is called to the job merely as a second choice. In the Adam and Eve creation story, Adam gives his companion the name Eve, meaning "mother of all the living. However, woman, without Man, would cease to exist.
In these man-made myths, natural phenomena is displayed through the telling of something greater than the readers themselves that makes something happen, extending from the creation of humans and animals to the form of massive sceneries and rivers. In EOTB, the creation of the world is told through a tree called "The Great Tree." The tree is illustrated as having abundant fruits and beautiful flowers of all kinds just as in the Adam and Eve story. In WGWU, the rivers are made from the Sky Spirit's tracks that melt in the snow.
