The Sky World is an Indonesian Myth for explaining the beginning of the world and how humans came to be. Once there were 3 brothers and 2 sisters in the sky world. One day the youngest brother went fishing and lost his hook that was borrowed from the eldest brother. The brother was angry and so the youngest brother searched for the hook in the water, he met a fish in the water that said he would help. They found the lost hook together and returned it, the youngest brother was mad that the eldest had been so bossy so he wanted to get back at him. He hung a jug of palm wine above the eldests bed so when he woke up he would knock into it. When this happened the youngest brother said he wanted to palm wine back, so the eldest started to dig to try and pick up the wine that sunk into the ground. He dug a hole into the world below. The brothers wondered what was down the hole so they tied a rope to their dog and lowered him down, when they pulled him back he had white sand on him. The brothers decided to go down and see what the world was like. All three brothers climbed down with four dogs, the sisters decided they must go with so they began to climb down. The second sister became scared and the people in the sky world saw how nervous she was and pulled her back with the rope. The three brothers and one sister were than stuck on the world below, where we are and they are our ancestors. These brothers and their sister are this cultures first people. The white sand tells the people of Indonesia that the climbed down to a place similar to where they live. They also were involved in activities that the people of Indonesia would be familiar with. ...
