Abenaki Creation Story And The Importance Of Dreaming

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In the “Abenaki Creation Story and the Importance of Dreaming” myth it is described that the life of the natural world was created by a supreme image, the greatest spirit, that created the world by his sparkles of power and his imagination. During the story the Great Spirit was having a conflict deciding what living beings could he create because he wanted all to be perfect, he was a perfectionist, but while he was dreaming with strange things like animals and people, that was an unbelievable dream for him, he thought that it could not be possible because all seems imperfect and out of an order. But for his surprise when he awakened all his dream was true, and there was no other thing than accepting what happened and then he realized that it

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