Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative and A Penobscot Origin Narrative
The article a Penobscot narrative is a powerful story from a man named Joseph Nicolar the story is called Klose-kur-beh, The Man from Nothing, he is supposed to be the first man to ever appear on the earth, who was clung to the dirt and risen by the great being and told to find companions to be their teacher and the great being shall be his. When the first mother heard of this she was disturbed and nothing seem to help her feel better. She told her husband to kill her and drag her flesh along the place until it went away and do the other side when you see bone, after this she told him to bury her bones and come back in 7 moons there would be plant to gather and eat. …show more content…
Joseph Nicolar just didn’t was his people to know the story, but the whole world. He did about 40 years of search and study before it was shared, in hopes that the facts would be straight. Klose-kur-beh was claimed by all the children of the red man and maybe the author wanted everyone to claim the same. He may have also been trying to show the reader how the natives lived since not much was known at that …show more content…
Both men are being created from the dust yet at first one is stuck and unable to move until his great being comes along and set him free. While in the other story Adam is able to move as soon he is created. The differences are the tree of life and the first mother. In genesis god tried to give Adam and eve everything he could but they didn’t listen and still ate from the tree of life which was suppose to be evil. As a punishment they were kicked out the Garden of Eden. The first mother saw her people suffering not being able to have food and water, what she decided to do was sacrifice herself for her people making herself a part of the land. She brought food to her people. That is another difference in the stories in genesis Adam and Eve had everything and threw it all away while the kids had nothing prayed and received their blessings. Those are the differences and similarities to these
The article a Penobscot narrative is a powerful story from a man named Joseph Nicolar the story is called Klose-kur-beh, The Man from Nothing, he is supposed to be the first man to ever appear on the earth, who was clung to the dirt and risen by the great being and told to find companions to be their teacher and the great being shall be his. When the first mother heard of this she was disturbed and nothing seem to help her feel better. She told her husband to kill her and drag her flesh along the place until it went away and do the other side when you see bone, after this she told him to bury her bones and come back in 7 moons there would be plant to gather and eat. …show more content…
Joseph Nicolar just didn’t was his people to know the story, but the whole world. He did about 40 years of search and study before it was shared, in hopes that the facts would be straight. Klose-kur-beh was claimed by all the children of the red man and maybe the author wanted everyone to claim the same. He may have also been trying to show the reader how the natives lived since not much was known at that …show more content…
Both men are being created from the dust yet at first one is stuck and unable to move until his great being comes along and set him free. While in the other story Adam is able to move as soon he is created. The differences are the tree of life and the first mother. In genesis god tried to give Adam and eve everything he could but they didn’t listen and still ate from the tree of life which was suppose to be evil. As a punishment they were kicked out the Garden of Eden. The first mother saw her people suffering not being able to have food and water, what she decided to do was sacrifice herself for her people making herself a part of the land. She brought food to her people. That is another difference in the stories in genesis Adam and Eve had everything and threw it all away while the kids had nothing prayed and received their blessings. Those are the differences and similarities to these