The stories of Genesis and Popol Vuh attempt to explain the creation of Earth and mankind. Although these stories have many similarities, they do differ in many ways because of the different religions they come from.
Right from the beginning there are obvious similarities between the two. They both references a God or multiple Gods who create the world and everything in it including humans. The Gods all save the creation of humans for last after creating landscapes, plants, and animals. They each had a type of hierarchy when creating things (whether accidental or intentional) which started with the landscapes and plants then moving on to the animals and lastly creating humans to give them a kind of dominance above the other creations. Both of these stories included the idea of a flood destroying the Gods’ creation, allowing them to somewhat start over. The destruction of the flood was seen somewhat as a punishment to the things they have created for their mistakes such as going against a God’s rule or not worshipping the Gods. A …show more content…
In Genesis God created animals solely for food, however, in Popol Vuh animals were accidentally created when the gods were trying to create humans and made something that didn’t speak in their same tongue. The gods saw this as a major problem because they didn’t know if they were praising the gods or not and this led to them being used for meat. Another way the two stories differed is how in Genesis God created the world and everything in it in seven days, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it…” (Moses 66). In Popol Vuh there doesn’t seem to be a time limit or any specific length of time in which the world needed to be
Right from the beginning there are obvious similarities between the two. They both references a God or multiple Gods who create the world and everything in it including humans. The Gods all save the creation of humans for last after creating landscapes, plants, and animals. They each had a type of hierarchy when creating things (whether accidental or intentional) which started with the landscapes and plants then moving on to the animals and lastly creating humans to give them a kind of dominance above the other creations. Both of these stories included the idea of a flood destroying the Gods’ creation, allowing them to somewhat start over. The destruction of the flood was seen somewhat as a punishment to the things they have created for their mistakes such as going against a God’s rule or not worshipping the Gods. A …show more content…
In Genesis God created animals solely for food, however, in Popol Vuh animals were accidentally created when the gods were trying to create humans and made something that didn’t speak in their same tongue. The gods saw this as a major problem because they didn’t know if they were praising the gods or not and this led to them being used for meat. Another way the two stories differed is how in Genesis God created the world and everything in it in seven days, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it…” (Moses 66). In Popol Vuh there doesn’t seem to be a time limit or any specific length of time in which the world needed to be