Native American Algonquin Creation Myth

Creation myth, what thoughts are brought to the mind when these words are said? Is the story itself real, but told behind a lie? Many questions are thrown into perspective when individuals think about the meaning of these words. Native Americans used this type of story telling to put together how everything was brought about in this world today. Creation myth simply means the action of bringing something to existence in a traditional story manner that explains an act from nature. The Native American Algonquin story is simply implying that there is a border between the Great Earth Mothers’ two sons, Glooskap and Malsum. The two sons are both representing figures in order to tell a story through the Native American mythology. The Algonquin Creation Myth shows meaning and theme presented through the borders in this story by using God, Satan, and biblical text to represent the story being told. …show more content…
Glooskap is said to represent God because he is said to be “good, wise and creative.”(Native American Legend) Glooskap showed his Godly acts through the responses he made when his mother died, by creating good things out of her remains. With this being said, Glooskap shows this act when he made “plants, animals and humans out of the Great Earth Mothers’ remaining,” (Native American Legend) to support the Earth. As a reference to the Bible it states in Genesis 1:26 that God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the seas, skies, and animals all over the earth.” This biblical text is referring back to the border of Glooskap and God. Glooskap is imitating God’s work by creating animals and humans to live on the earth, in order to rule the land. Glooskap was shown as the border figure of God, simply because he created beautiful and meaningful things with his creative mind in thought of