Ymir or Orgelmir (seething clay), the personification of the frozen ocean, came to life amid the ice-blocks in the abyss

A description of where the Bear came from, and what happened to the Ani Tsagulin clan of the Cherokee.

The alternative name for this narrative is "The Origin of Head-hunting". The story told by the Bontoc Igorot of the Philippines.

The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault.