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    origin and which part of the story is basic human knowledge. These two myths have elements of truth in them because they have parts of the story that have been pulled from the country or region in which the creation myth was written. Beginning with the Japanese Creation Myth, the main story focuses on two deities named Izanagi “He Who Invites” and Izanami “She Who Invites” who both played a big role in the creation of life on earth. They had been born of reeds that sprouted…

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    Van Duzer Summary

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    but to focus on business matter in the first place. Van Duzer begins to create his reasoning for business on a vocational theology, which is defined by the creation story. Van Duzer goes on to makes six observations about the accounts of creations. “First, the material world matter to God; second, human being are called to steward God’s creation; third, Human beings are made in God’s image; fourth, human beings are made to live within limits; fifth, God delights in variety; sixth, the garden was…

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    could grow enough crops to feed everyone and have an excess. Creation stories were created by humans to explain how their world came to be. These stories show how different cultures feared different things. Frankenstein and Blade Runner show the fear of a superhuman creation that is devastating to the humans who created it. The creation stories humans create show that humans fear themselves more than anything else. In the Ugandan creation story the world is created by an all powerful and…

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    Coyote Going West Analysis

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    A Comparison of Native Creation Stories “Turtle Island” and “The One About Coyote Going West” are native creation stories that reflect the culture and beliefs of the people. The stories attempt to explain the unexplainable with aspects of magic and other worldly powers. These stories come from different time periods, use different names for divine creators and have different animals to tell the story. However, the similarities between the two stories’ creation method, setting and portrayal of…

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    Hopi Creation Myths

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    Although creation myths were based on the beliefs of many different tribes, most of these myths share many moral similarities. In particular, the tribes of the Iroquois and the Hopi shared myths about the creation of the world which included many similar and different morals and beliefs. The creation myths “The World on the Turtle’s Back” from the Iroquois tribe and “The Four Creations” from the Hopi people share values such as the view of animals being very intelligent and the patriarchy that…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “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…

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    The Aztec Creation Story

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    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…

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    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…

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