Creation myths

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…

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Certainly, current understanding of the Creation story has gone through an intensive level of examination, because of people’s quest for answers from the Bible’s verse, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” by using many ways of criticism (KJV). A start point for critics and theologians, to develop and analyze, what took place during this complicated process. Furthermore, in Genesis 1:31, “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good,” and completed on…

Everybody has a different story about how the earth was created, two popular ones the Judeo christian story and the native american story. These ones seem like they are the most popular stories about how the earth was created Both of these stories have a tree involved and if you touch or eat it, it is bad and you will get consequences in some way, but even though in both of the stories they aren't suppose to touch the tree or take a bite from it in both of the stories they do it anyways and then…

Before earth, sea, and heaven were created there was Chaos, which was a confused and shapeless mass. Everything was mixed up. Air was not air, earth was not earth, and sea was not sea. God and Nature finally put an end to this discord separating everything into its proper setting. A God who is unknown then made the terrain of earth by appointing rivers and raising mountains along with distributing fertile fields and stony plains. He then created the stars and the animals that took possession of…

B.C. 3113-3114 The world is created according to the Mayan calendar According to the Mayan calendar the world would have been created between these years. The Mayan civilization had not begun yet but when the Calendar was made it said the world was created on tis date 2600 Maya civilization begins. the first few Mayan people start to build up their civilization 400 The earliest Mayan solar calendar are in use however they were being used long before already. 1. What turning point on the…

similar thinks between the 2 stories. In the beginning of both stories talks about how things were created. The Judeo Christian story is different because animals don’t play a big role in it . The creation story talks about that there was a high world above from earth and talks about a tree like on the creation it also talks about a tree. It’s similar to genesis. Genesis says that God heavens and earth. God created Adam and Eve to eat from any tree except from the tree of knowledge the apple…

Bible and the creation tale associated with it, that a God created the Earth (94). Other civilizations believe that animals helped shaped Earth. Each civilization has a specific story that helps justify and explain the creation of Earth. The Mayan, Cherokee, Babylonian and Hebrew stories of Earth’s creation all differ from one another. Despite being different each, story uses different aspects in their own culture to help answer and explain how the Earth was created. Each story of creation…

Throughout history, creation stories describe the way people have thought Earth has been made. After reading the creation story from the Native American tribe, Iroquois, and reading the creation story from Christian Bible, one could make some comparisons between the two. (Throughout the rest of the essay the Christian creation story will be referred to as “Genesis” although the source material doesn't include all of book of Genesis written in the Bible, and the Iroquois creation story will be…

The World on the Turtle’s Back and The Genesis The World on the Turtle’s Back and The Genesis both give explanations as to why the world works in such a way. Although these creation stories come from different hemispheres of the world they share many archetypes such origin stories, temptresses and sibling rivalries. Similar Archetypes are found in a lot of literature but some of them have their own twist, which gives us more insight into their culture and beliefs. The creator of earth in the…