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Overview

After the land and rivers are restored, Olelbis asks how to populate the still-bare ground. His grandmothers direct him to Hlihli Kiemila, who has lived in the eastern sweat-house Hlihli Pui Hlutton. Tsurat fetches the old man. His exterior resembles a worm-eaten acorn, while his interior is meal-like material that sifts out whenever he moves.

Olelbis has Tsurat carry Hlihli across the world in every direction. After five days, small oak plants are growing wherever the dust has fallen. This dispersal is followed by the scattering of clover and other flower seeds from Olelpanti, so the old man does not single-handedly supply all vegetation. The narrative also names his daughter Hlihli Loimis and says she has many sons, but does not identify those sons or make them a second set of individually narrated characters.

Acorn-like exteriorMovement releases meal-like dustCarried five days across the landDust becomes growing oaks
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Origins & earliest records

Jeremiah Curtin’s Creation Myths of Primitive America (1898), opening Wintu narrative Olelbis. His provenance notes describe the California collecting context; this chapter does not name its individual teller. Curtin states that an earlier version appeared in The Sun on29March1896.

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Records & interpretation

Complete Olelbis,pp.3–48, read through the final disposition of the first people; notes490–493 also read. Complete oak-dispersal episode33–34. Curtin’s comparative theories are not treated as established origins.

Selected bibliography

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    Creation Myths of Primitive America in Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind

    Jeremiah Curtin · 1898

    Complete Olelbis,pp.3–48; Complete oak-dispersal episode33–34. Notes486–493 for collection, prior publication and editorial interpretation.

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  1. Primary textCurtin1898: complete opening Wintu narrativeResearch access: 2026-10-05

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