Native American Vs. Judeo-Christian Creation Story

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This is essey about two diffrent cultures and religions the Native American and Judeo-Christian creation story.These two stories can help us see how diffrent and similar are these two stories.In the beginning we can see how they are diffrent. In the Native American story we have no clue who created the skyworld and people on it,while in
Judeo-Christian story we know that God created a world in 7 days.This difference tell us that
Christian have strong fait in one creator of the world.This lead us to another difference and that is how world was created. Christians belive that God created world in 7 days.At first he created heavens and the earth after taht God created light and separated light from darkness.God called light day
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First of them is that both of stories have something that is prohibited.In Native american story that is root of Middle Tree,and in Christian that is fruit from Knowlege Tree of Good and Evil.In both stories women made mistake and ate for the tree,in Native American women tryed to eat and falled on to the eart,and they were being forced up from the first places.In native american animal helps the women to get to the land,and in Christian they wre being forced up from the God to leave Adams heavens.Both of women born child. Another differnce is that in Native American we can see exatly how take care of childrenes and in Christian we can’t see that.We know that they are from Eve but we don’t know how take care of them.In Native American we can see that after death of Monteh Earth Skywomen took care of

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