Flat Pipe Creator
The Flat Pipe Creator is the supreme being in Arapaho creation mythology. In the beginning there was only water covering everything. A man carrying a Flat Pipe walked on the water for six days, weeping and fasting, searching for a safe place to rest his pipe. On the seventh day he summoned seven cottonwood trees and all the creatures. Various animals dove for mud—Grebe, Kingfisher, Otter, Beaver, Garter Snake, and others—all failed. On the seventh dive, Turtle and the Man (who transformed his Flat Pipe into a Red-headed Duck) succeeded. The Man cast the mud in four directions, creating the Ear