Creation Records

The main argument of Henry John Drewal's article “Mermaids, Mirrors and Snake Charmers: Igbo Mami Wata Shrines” is that Mami Wata shrines, and the ideas surrounding them, were created from many outside influences, reinterpreted and repurposed. While many of the imagery, beliefs and practices surrounded Mami Wata are borrowed from other cultures and beliefs, they are not merely copies or imitations of those beliefs. Instead, Mami Wata worshippers have created something entirely new and unique by…

Stories of a great flood have circled throughout the world for centuries. These stories are a sort of explanation as to what happened and why it happened. There are many flood stories throughout different cultures, and they all have many similarities. One example is that of The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the story of the great flood in the Hebrew scriptures (christian religion). These two stories are not the only of its kind about a great flood wiping out humanity for a new start though. The book…

Some believe the biblical creation, while others believe the Greek creation. Even though they are different creations with different stories, they still have a few similarities. In the biblical creation and the Greek creation, they both believe in a god or gods that created the world, and they believe that the world evolved in a course of events, but they both have different stories of how the world was formed and they believe in different god/s. In the two creations, they both believe someone…

“The World on the Turtle’s Back” by the Iroquois Tribe is a creation myth. Joseph Campbell classified the four functions of a myth: metaphysical, to instill awe; sociological, to support customs; cosmological, to explain the world and the unexplained; and pedagogical, to guide people. This story fulfills each of these functions when the woman falls through a hole in the sky world and the earth is created by dirt from the bottom of the ocean. Her descendants each have a part of creating the…

The story of creation, according to the Aztecs, is about birth, death, and rebirth of a god to sun. When the story is told, the order of the worlds is never really in order and not all of them are there all the time, but the main idea about it remains. In the beginning of the Aztec creation story, the dual god, Ometecuhtli/Omecihuatl, created itself. This god was considered good and bad, chaos and order, male and female. Being that it was also a female, it was able to have four children. The…

even down to the very structure of atoms. This consistency is key to a Christian’s belief because, “If creation is really a fact, this means there is a Creator,…

There are a lot of similarities and differences between the two stories I will be covering on, the Iroquois Creation story and the Judeo-Christian Creation story. At first I will be covering the similarities of the two and later I will be covering the differences between the two. Now there were quite a few similarities between the two stories and I’m gonna start out with how they both have a Forbidden Tree that the humans are not supposed to eat from like for instants, in the Judeo-Christian…

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…

Makayla staley Side Effects The character of Izzie in “side effects” The main character in my story “side effects” written by Amy Goldman Koss is an 8th grader in middle school and is diagnosed with cancer and is getting very sick. She has to get an injection called chemo and every month or so, the chemo makes her hurt all over and makes her throw up, but it's supposed to help kill the cancer inside her. It makes…

What is a creation myth? What is its purpose? A creation myth is a story about the creation of the world and mankind. Each culture and religion has its' own version of how the earth was formed and for what purpose. Myth's typically include the creation of both the earth and mankind, or just one or the other. The purpose of these myths, besides to give an explanation of where we have all come from, is to enlighten those who believe in them as to the purpose of their existence. 2. Creation…