For your assignment - Make up (this should be your own work and not the re-telling of a myth already in existence) and write an original 250-word creation myth that has at least one god and explains one of the following: why volcanoes erupt; what causes earthquakes, how the Big Dipper was formed.
Many of the stories associated with indigenous religions helped explain to the people how elements of nature came to be (i.e. how the sun or moon came into existence).
Following are two links where you can view sample video creation myths in two different cultures.