Nvwa was a kind goddness.One day at dusk,she walked alone over the wild plain and felt extremly lonely.She thought:how nice would it be if there were other lively creatures like her in the universe. Then she walked to the river and saw her own reflection on the water. Suddenly her eyes brightened and she had an idea. She grasped a handful of yellow dust from the river bed and mixed it with the water.She used the clay to create a little creature like herself and then blew life to it.The little clay thing walked around and Goddness Nvwa was overjoyed. She made more of them and soon was surrounded by a group of jumping and laughing little creatures. Goddness Nvwa called them human beings.
The goddness went on making more human beings,had no time resting and was soon tired out. She got another idea:She took a tree branch, dipped it into the mud beside the river and was then struck the muddy branch against the land.
All the muddy dots splashed down from the branch turned into human beings. This method was efficient, yet the only problem was that the human beings tured from mud dots were not as clever and strong as those sculptured by the goddness in the hands. That's why there are clever people and stupid ones in the world.
Then why there were men and women? Because goddness Nvwa blew masculine breath into some clay figures and they turned into men;she breath feminine breath into some clay figures they then turned into women. In order to make human beings multiply themselves generation after generation, the goddness let men and women fall in love with each other, get married and given birth to more children.
From then on, human beings live in the world freely. They work when the sun rises and rest when the sun goes down, leading a happy and peaceful life ever after.
