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THE NAMING OF CREATION. Coyote was chief of all the animals. Now, he told them that the tribes of men were coming near, one and all. Everything he told them came true. Then he said, “Tomorrow the people will come out of the ground. I will name them and they will spread out.” Then he named them; he named them until he had named them all. And the people came out, but Coyote had no name for himself. Many people came out. Then he named himself Coyote. Thus came people,― not we alone, but all people. REINTERPRETATION. This story is about one of the fundamental question of people. Where do we come from? What makes us us why are there things? This story is about the creation of all peoples and the separation of all peoples. When science asks how did we get here, what is our lineage, those questions are the same as the ones in this story. When religion asks how did we get here, why is there suffering, why are we different, those questions are the same as the ones in this story. When we look at eachother and ask where have you been my whole life, what is it like to be you, where do you come from, those questions are the same as the ones in this story. When we look at ourselves and ask why are we, those questions are the same. TENTIONS. Science takes issue with answers to the question of why we are here. By default. To answer that question is the have faith and to know something without evidence that exists outside of yourself and these things to science are in conflict with the foundation that science is built upon. Science is the impossible quest to answer a question that it cannot answer, fundamentally. The naming of creation is a story outside of this Indigenous legend. The first task God gave to Adam was the naming of the things. God “brought them to Adam to see what he would call them” and “the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field” (Gen. 2:19“20). Awareness, familiarity, and categorization is the object of science and reason. To participate in it is to participate in the fundamental process of existence. Things that are not named and not seen do not exist. This is the fundamental truth understood by people that is in conflict with science. CONTEXT AND ITS NECESSITY IN MEANING. By naming things we are assigning them a context. Our identity is created through our relationships to others. Words are understood through other words. Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander argue that all human thinking is our ability to make analogies. Which is to say to think is to assign context. Stories and art have meaning because of the context they exist in. To ask science to take meaning from narrative is to ask science to understand context. Context which is not provided. In the naming of creation, is Coyote a literal coyote? Is the fact that the people come from the ground relevant? What is the significance of these characters and symbols? No narrative can be understood without context, but context is ever-changing and reshaping, and different from person to person. Context is internal. And science is external. HARMONY creates meaning. Harmony is relationship. The tension between people and science, science and narrative, narrative and people, and all things creates each other. By naming things we are creating relationship, by creating relationship we are creating tension, by creating tension we are creating harmony, this is the process by which all things find meaning and through meaning existence.