Abstract. – The Hoa Binh culture of the cavemen has already been existing 12,000 years ago on Nias. However, the provenance of the Niassian people and their language is not clarified until today. DNA tests yielded surprising results. The present population obiously goes back to a recent extremely small founder population and an almost complete replacement of the ancestral population. The Niassian people had no script, but an all the richer oral tradition. Almost 150 years have passed since the arrival of the Dutch in 1845 and the Christian missionaries in 1865. Numerous valuable ethnological articles have been published during this period as well as a lot of misinterpretations. Reportedly many tin gods, deities, High Gods, and a large system of gods existed on Nias. The old symbolic language and the meaning of the 9 Heavens and 8 Earths for our earth we are walking on were no longer understood. Outside interpretations were full of contradictions. Literate Niassians, on the other hand, adopted misinterpretations of the wise men or tried to reconcile their tradition with the Christian doctrine. The present article construes the Nias myths in an accessible way by drawing on copious field research, furnishing simple and conclusive answers to many pending questions as yet. [Indonesia, Nias, myth, creation, genealogy, concepts of God]