Contrast of Noah and the Ark and Aztec Flood
In most ancient civilizations you would be able to find stories of Gods wiping out human existence to try again. a majority of these stories are used to explain why certain things in that civilization worked the way they did. These stories can also be used to show what kind of religious ideas that these early civilization had. By comparing and contrasting the Noah flood story with the Aztec it's a way to show the differences in the two societies.
In Noah's Ark god is tired of the humans on earth sinning and doing ungodly on his earth so he decides to recruit a man, Noah, to build a boat and save his family and two of each animal. (genesis). Before the Aztec flood the aztec god Titlachahuan recruited a man named Nota and his wife “to hollow a great cypress in which you shall enter’ (Bouroburg). This basically translates to build a boat or you and your wife because great destruction will soon be coming to the earth.These are both very parallel to each other in the sense that a godly being is telling a chosen one to build something so they can escape the destruction that is coming to mankind.
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In Noah and the ark Noah uses a white dove to see if the earth has dried up and is ready to use again.When he is unsuccessful he proceeds to send out a raven. The raven only comes back with a olive branch which means that there is plant life but not a place to land. The last bird he sends out is another white dove that doe not come back which means that there is plant life and a safe place to land. In the Aztec flood Nota does something similar to this but instead he just sends out one dove that doesn't return. The similarities between these two stories can be proof that maybe these two civilizations are similar and happened at close
In most ancient civilizations you would be able to find stories of Gods wiping out human existence to try again. a majority of these stories are used to explain why certain things in that civilization worked the way they did. These stories can also be used to show what kind of religious ideas that these early civilization had. By comparing and contrasting the Noah flood story with the Aztec it's a way to show the differences in the two societies.
In Noah's Ark god is tired of the humans on earth sinning and doing ungodly on his earth so he decides to recruit a man, Noah, to build a boat and save his family and two of each animal. (genesis). Before the Aztec flood the aztec god Titlachahuan recruited a man named Nota and his wife “to hollow a great cypress in which you shall enter’ (Bouroburg). This basically translates to build a boat or you and your wife because great destruction will soon be coming to the earth.These are both very parallel to each other in the sense that a godly being is telling a chosen one to build something so they can escape the destruction that is coming to mankind.
Another similarity that you …show more content…
In Noah and the ark Noah uses a white dove to see if the earth has dried up and is ready to use again.When he is unsuccessful he proceeds to send out a raven. The raven only comes back with a olive branch which means that there is plant life but not a place to land. The last bird he sends out is another white dove that doe not come back which means that there is plant life and a safe place to land. In the Aztec flood Nota does something similar to this but instead he just sends out one dove that doesn't return. The similarities between these two stories can be proof that maybe these two civilizations are similar and happened at close