Differences In The Story Iroquois

These two stories were very alike in many ways. This was surprising because these stories have very different cultures. I would not think that two stories with very different cultures would have so many similarities. But just like they had similarities they had differences also. In both of these stories had a forbidden tree that no one should mess with. In the story Iroquois it says “ they were also warned not to bring harm to this tree which was a great source of nutrients for the people”. The whole village relied on this tree for food. This is a rule that the great power had set for them. In the story Iroquois, the tree gave the small village food to eat. In the Judeo-Christian story there were multiple trees that they could not touch. They both had a good and a bad child. The evil child breaks the rules and gets the village in trouble. What also stood out was that the woman was the instigator in both of these stories. The women messed with the trees and were not supposed to. The great power gets very frustrated in both stories. In the story the Judeo it says “God created the …show more content…
In the story Iroquois they had very helpful animals. These animals helped by helping the woman that broke the rules. They gave the woman a place to stay and gave her food. The birds helped by holding her up so she would not drop too fast and hurt herself. The bottom of the tree was very strange because it had a very big turtle under it. What they ended up doing was planting a seed on the turtle so an island would grow for the woman to live on. In a way this was a very good thing because if she would not have done this there would not be an earth. In the story Iroquois the animals are equal to the humans. They are equal to the humans because they are just as dominate as the humans. The animals help the humans with many things. In the Judeo the animals dominated and fought for their food. The animals in the Judeo have very great