This piece is derived from an episode in the Navajo Creation epic as told by Sandoval to Aileen O'Bryan. At the end of the Fourth World Age, a hole appeared in the sky through which the sun disappeared. The community came together to create a ceremony which raised the ground high enough so that they could all pass through the skyhole. On the other side - the Fifth World Age - they saw that the hole to the world below was in fact a lake. The myth then tells how the community built a large house so they could live permanently in the new world. I was impressed by the community focus of this myth, placing the individual far below the group intent. It also struck me how often mythologies recount the beginning of a new World Age through the metaphor of building a house - constructing a new way of life from the bones of the old ones, raising the dome of the sky to measure time by new stars, adapting to a suden change by encouraging its permanence - the metaphor works on many levels.