Then he left them and went off a short distance, for he knew that a woman was being formed from the feather.
I wonder if them saying that the first woman was born from the first feather means anything. It makes you think that the first humans were created through more delicate means than just simply evolving over millions of years. I think it was a beautiful way to represent the emergence of humans.
Then it dived to the bottom and came up with some soft mud, which began to grow and spread on every side until it became the island which we call the earth. It was afterward fastened to the sky with four cords, but no one remembers who did this.
The Cherokee believe that the Earth is being held up with seemingly invisible chords or strings that stretch to the heavens which I think is a very interesting way to think about it.