The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
The snake-locks of Medusa are represented in the snake-locks of At-otarho, an ancient culture-hero of the Iroquois.
"In the Greeks of Homer," says Volney, "I find the customs, discourse, and manners of the Iroquois, Delawares, and Miamis.
So, also, among the Iroquois the bride and bridegroom used to partake together of a cake of sagamite, which the bride always offered to her husband." (Ibid.)
The Deluge Legends of America
"Among the Iroquois there is a tradition that the sea and waters infringed upon the land, so that all human life was destroyed.
The Olympian Gods
The Iroquois Creation Myth:
Earth as a Project
Indigenous Narratives: Stories from the Iroquois, Yoruba, Edo, and Zulu people, which describe advanced beings shaping and populating Earth with life.
Timeline of the Four Worlds
The Iroquois creation story, part of their oral tradition, includes the Sky Woman who fell from the Sky World and gave birth to twin sons, Sapling and Flint.
These twins are considered the ancestors of the Iroquois people.
The Iroquois also have detailed clan systems and lineages that trace their ancestry back to these mythological beginnings.
Iroquois Sky Woman: Sky Woman's descent from the Sky World and the creation of the earth on the back of a turtle form the basis of Iroquois cosmology and genealogy.
Turtle
Iroquois Mythology: The Great Turtle carries the world on its back.
The Deluge Legends of America
Iroquois, Chickasaws, Sioux: All have flood legends involving a single family or person surviving and repopulating the earth.
Adam Stories
That the Mexicans had other traditions, now lost, touching this matter is probable, for they had a form of baptism for children in which they prayed that those baptized might be washed from "the original sin committed before the founding of the world." And this had to do, in all probability, with a legend akin to that of the Iroquois, who told of the primeval mother falling and then of the earth being built up to receive her when precipitated out of heaven.
Manna
But, according to an Iroquois legend, the great mother of the human race lost heaven for a pot of bears' grease.
Little People
In Iroquois lore, the mythical "little people" known as the Jogah, or Drum Dancers.
They are known to aid respectful Iroquois farmers and harbor an affinity for strawberries.
Giants worldwide
This is a legend of the Iroquois.
The great flood stories
In 1911, an elderly man from an Iroquois tribe recounted a flood tradition that was said to have wiped out all life, including "huge, serpentine sea and land animals" — possibly a reference to dinosaurs.
Interestingly, this Iroquois tradition not only recalled the occurrence of the flood but also its date.