Earth: Origin of the ocean / Guajiro (Colombia and Venezuela)
The coming of Earth / Cherokee (United States)
The earthquake fish / (Japan)
Sky: Why the sky is high / (Mangaia/Polynesia)
Hare rescues the sun / Inuit (Sibera)
First people make the starts / Dine/Navajo (United States)
The seven sisters / Aboriginal (Australia)
A golden angel egg / (Czechoslovakia)
Fire: The coming of fire / Aboriginal (Australia)
Hippo befriends fire / Krobo (Ghana)
Pele's wrath of fire / (Hawaii)
Princess Firefly's lovers / (Japan)
Water: Natsilane & the killer whales / Tlingit (Canada and United States)
Crab & the water animals / Naga (India)
The tortoise & the egrets / (Tibet)
The porpoise wife / (Caroline Islands/Micronesia)
Hummingbird & the selfish fox / Yamana (Tierra del Fuego)
Seasons & weather: Earth & sky reconcile / Yoruba (Nigeria)
Nanabozho brings the seasons / Anishinabe/Ojibwa or Chippewa (Canada and United States)
Rainbow / Guajiro (Colombia and Venezuela)
The wrath of March / (Italy)
A basket of friendship / (Korea).
Plants: The bay-tree girl / (Greece)
Kospi & the first flowers / Tehuelche (Argentina)
Befriended by flowers / (Vietnam)
The coming of seeds & gardens / Chorote (Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay)
An elfin harvest / (Scandinavia)
Animals: How lion lost the power of flight / (South Africa)
Abu l'Hssein, the generous / Arab (Egypt)
Mighty tiger & the hare / Hui (China)
The first bats / Jakaltec-Maya (Guatemala and Mexico)
Hedgehog races deer / (Germany)
Whither the animals' freedom? / (Poland)
Circle of life: First people: children of the Macaques / Lisu (China)
Death becomes final / Caduveo (Brazil)
Magpie & the bird nests / (England)
The caprice of heron & crane / (Russia)
Stewardship: Disappearing flowers / Arab (Syria)
Turtle returns the gift / (Japan)
The fairy circle / Celtic (Ireland and Scottish Highlands)
The pumpkin seed bird / Creole (Martinique)
Wisdom: The wisdom of nature / Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar)
Four who made a tiger / Kannada (India)
The silkies & the fisherman's sons / Gypsy/Traveller (Scotland)
The garden of wisdom / Jewish (Israel)
First tail, last tale: Tell tails / Maya (Guatemala and Mexico).