Mayan Creation Tale

To answer a question that lacks an actual answer, a story is often times created helps to justify the curiosity. The question of how the earth was created has provoked several different stories. Some civilizations believed in the Hebrew Bible and the creation tale associated with it, that a God created the Earth (94). Other civilizations believe that animals helped shaped Earth. Each civilization has a specific story that helps justify and explain the creation of Earth. The Mayan, Cherokee, Babylonian and Hebrew stories of Earth’s creation all differ from one another. Despite being different each, story uses different aspects in their own culture to help answer and explain how the Earth was created.
Each story of creation references different ideas. To explain how the Earth came to be, the Hopi explain how a Spider Women created most all elements of nature (Handout). The Cherokee describe the creation of mountains by a male buzzard creating them with his wings (Handout). The Mayan creation tale uses a serpent and his movements to justify the earth’s creation (1908). To explain how the Earth came to be, the Hopi explain how a Spider Women created most all elements of nature (Handout). …show more content…
The Cherokee story explains that children disobeying their parents are to blame for a lack of available food (Handout). The Cherokee story of creation places a large focus on women. Women bore a child every seven days, reaped corn, then the women prepared food. The men fulfill a very masculine role in the tale, they were to hunt animals, and animals that then became evil and vengeful (Handout). The Hebrew bible places more of a focus on men. The man is created then a woman is made from the man (96). The two tales place a different emphasis on women; while each of the tales also illustrates that there are consequences for