Origin of the Maklaks
The twelve origin myths of the Klamath Basin, as Kemush carries them — witness, mediator, the memory of the world — from before the world had shape to the threshold of memory.
Read on the App StoreEvery word in the app is reproduced verbatim from The Book of Spirals by H. L. Delaney (Basalt Sea Press, 2025) — a telling of the twelve origin myths of the Klamath and Modoc peoples. Creation stories carried across generations have always been told by different speakers, in different circumstances. Variation is not corruption of the tradition. Variation is the tradition.
H. L. Delaney writes literary fiction and mythic realism rooted in the landscapes, histories, and memory traditions of the Klamath Basin. His work has received the Calvino and Princemere Prizes. Delaney is a member of the Klamath Confederated Tribes and lives in the shadow of Crater Lake.
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