Christian Story Vs. Native American Story

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Everybody has a different story about how the earth was created, two popular ones the Judeo christian story and the native american story. These ones seem like they are the most popular stories about how the earth was created
Both of these stories have a tree involved and if you touch or eat it, it is bad and you will get consequences in some way, but even though in both of the stories they aren't suppose to touch the tree or take a bite from it in both of the stories they do it anyways and then in the christian story they get thrown out of the special garden because god doesn’t them to eat from the tree that gives them immortality so he throws them out and in the native american story when the girl tries to get to the roots of the tree to

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