This Creation myth comes from the North African country of Algeria where the Kabyls or Kabylians live who are a homogeneous Algerian cultural community and they consider themselves exclusively Berber (indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley). In this creation myth the first humans develop in to the modern Kabyls or Kabylians The First Human Beings In the beginning there were only one man and one woman and they lived not on the earth but beneath it. They were the first people in the world and neither knew that the other was of another sex. One day they both came to the well to drink. The man said, “Let me drink.” The woman said, “No, I’ll drink first. I was here first.” The man tried to push the woman aside. She struck him. They fought. The man smote the woman so that she dropped to the ground. Her clothing fell to one side. Her thighs were naked. The man saw the woman lying strange and naked before him. He saw that she had a taschunt. He felt that he had a thabuscht. He looked at the taschunt and asked, “What is that for?” The woman said, “That is for good.” The man lay upon the woman. He lay with the woman eight days. After nine months the woman bore four daughters. Again, after nine months, she bore four sons, and again four daughters and again four sons. So at last the man and the woman had fifty daughters and fifty sons. The father
