Similarities Between Mayan And Inuit Culture

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Both the Mayan and Inuit myths of there creations are similar in the fact that in both myths some type of higher person with out worldly powers or god of some sort created the earth, animals, and the people. In the Mayan culture "Before the world had a true form, there where two gods, Tepeu the Maker and Gucumatz the Feathered Spirt. While the world around them was dark, these two glittered with brilliant blue and green feathers. They came together to create the world." In the Inuit culture "Raven made the world and the waters with beats of his wings. He had the powers of a beast and a man just by moving a mask over his face to change between the

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