Compare And Contrast Greek And Cherokee Creation Stories

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In the beginning man was curious as to how he was created and made up a story to try to explain on how the earth was created. Creation Stories were developed by many cultures to try to explain the start of earth. In the Greek and Cherokee stories there are many similarities and differences.

Both the Greek and Cherokee creation stories start with total darkness and both us an animal in the creation of earth the nyx bird is a bird involved with the Greek a nyx bird is a bird with black wings and with the wind laid a golden egg and with that life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros

one half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the earth the sky Uranus and the earth he Gaia

the Cherokee

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