In Iroquois creation, the celestial woman who fell to Earth is Sky Woman.
In Haudenosaunee tradition, Sky Woman lived in an upper world. She fell through an opening made when a great tree was uprooted and descended toward a watery world below. Water birds caught her, and animals helped create dry land on the back of a giant turtle.
She is also known as Atahensic in some Iroquoian accounts. Stories differ about her children and role: some describe her as the mother of rival twins whose actions shape the world, while others focus on her daughter, who becomes central to later creation events.
Changing Woman belongs chiefly to Navajo tradition, Spider Woman is prominent in Hopi stories, and Corn Mother appears in several Indigenous agricultural traditions. Those figures are distinct from Sky Woman.