Abstract
The Absarkoe or Crow people tell the story of how the world began:
“To see the world in a grain of sand.”
(Blake)
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Penprase, B.E. (2011). Creation Stories from Around the World. In: The Power of Stars. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6803-6_3
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