In the past, many cultures tried to explain their world by telling creation stories. There are many of these stories and some have many similarities and differences. The two stories that have a number similarities and differences are the Greek and Cherokee creation stories even though these cultures lived many thousands of miles apart. In both the Greek and Cherokee stories, they talk about the creation of the universe as beginning in darkness. In the beginning of Cherokee, “the earth began as nothing but water and darkness, and the entire animal”. According to Cherokee ‘The earth began as nothing but water and darkness, and all the animal were in Galunlati, above the stone vault that makes up the sky’. In the beginning of Greek, There
