The Story of the "Rainbow Bridge."
The story of the Chumash begins on Santa Cruz Island. Legend has it the Chumash were created from a seed planted by Hutash, the Earth Goddess.
The Chumash prospered until they had become too populous for Santa Cruz Island. Ultimately Hutash decided that some of the people would have to move off the island to the mainland where there was plenty of space.
In order to get the people to the mainland, the Earth Goddess created a bridge out of a rainbow. She made a very large rainbow that stretched from the highest peaks of Santa Cruz Island to the mainland shore near modern day Carpenteria.
The Earth Goddess told the people to cross the rainbow bridge and fill the whole world with people. Some of the Chumash made it across the bridge safely but some did not. The ones who looked down at the fog shrouded waters of the Pacific became dizzy and fell into the ocean. Hutash felt badly that these people had fallen so she turned them into Dolphins. Thats why the Chumash always say the Dolphins are their brothers.
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