Which sentence in the story best indicates that it Is an emergence creation story? In the beginning all men Ived together In the lowest depths, in a region of darkness and moisture; thelir bodies were misshapen and horrible,
and they suffered great misery.
By appealing to Myuingwa (a vague conception of the god of the interior) and Baholinkonga (plumed serpent of enormous slze, genlus of water)
their old men obtalned a seed from which sprang a magic growth of cane.
AThe cane grew to miraculous height and penetrated through a crevice in the rogf overhead, and mankind climbed to a higher plane. Here was
dim light and some vegetation. Another magic cane brought them to a higher phe, with more light and vegetation, and here was the creation
of the animal kingdom. Singing was always the chief magic for creating anything. In like manner, they rose to the fourth stage or Earth; some say
by a pine tree, others say through the hollow cylinder of a great reed or rush.
This development was accompanled by singing-some say by the Magic Twins, the two little war gods; others say by the mockingbird. At any
rate, It is important to observe that when the song ran out, no more people could get through and many had to remain behind.
However, the outlet through which man came has never been closed, and Myuingwa sends through It the germs of all living things.