Two Sisters and Acoma Origins is a story by the Acoma Pueblo Indian. In the story, the first women on Earth are sisters, who were sent by the Tsichtinako from underground to above. However, before they can leave the underground, they must learn how to plant, harvest, and cook the corn. When the sisters learned all the giving lessons taught by Tsichtinako, she told them to go out. She gave each of them a basket, which has “pollen and sacred corn meal”. Tsichtinako also gave them some directions to follow in order to find the sun. She told them to wait for the sun to come out, wherever it comes out from, that direction will be the east. They will have to pray to the sun for a “long life and happiness, and for success in the purpose for which
