Myth of Er

Achieving Author’s Purpose: A Successful Creation Myth Have you ever wondered how Earth came to be? Everyone has heard of different creation stories whether they were fictional or reasonable stories. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a an Iroquois creation story that displays the Earth beginning, and the balance of “good” and “evil.” “Creation stories often serve many purposes. According to Larry Evers and Paul Pavich, scholars of Native American literature, such stories’ remind people of…

living through images, metaphors, and stories which capture the experiences and psychological realizations that precede philosophy. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus tackles what he calls the “only really serious philosophical problem…suicide” (MS 1). In order to illustrate his opinion on what humans must do in the face of the Absurd, Camus adapts the Greek myth of Sisyphus, a man who is condemned to push a rock up a mountain in the underworld for eternity as…

experience with the creation, resulting in a lack in formality in the second story. The second story also lacks general structure and an exact focus, giving it a more dramatic and storybook-esque feel than the first. These differences prove that the myths were most likely written by two different people who had differing theological views and conceptualizations of…

The Forces of Creation From a long time ago, myths were created to provide an explanation about nature, the birth of the universe and other phenomena that are not easy to understand. Some cultures adopt different facts to find such explanation. The book of Genesis explains about the beginning and creation of nature (15); meanwhile, the Chinese beliefs are based on a cosmic egg that mix the two forces of the Yin and Yang (27). These creation stories help humans to understand where they came from…

Although they have completely different backgrounds, the Chinese creation story and west African creation story are both similar in many ways. The Chinese and west African story are both alike in the way humans were created, and the landscape before the earth. In the Chinese and west African story humans were created very similar. In the west African story Obatala molded humans from clay. Also in the Chinese story humans were molded from mud. To continue the landscapes were also alike. The 2…

The Difference Between Bradford’s and The Natives’ Beliefs Creation of all is always a speculation of how it actually began. William Bradford and the Native story tellers, Iroquois and Navajo, definitely have two different ideas of their creations, and who or what is the master of their creation. This is also who they worship, for instance Bradford believes in “Divine Providence,” and the Native believe in a that nature is their “divine one.” Neither belief is wrong or right, just shows how…

In the film “Is Genesis History?”, multiple experts discuss a variety of topics regarding several theories and views concerning the beginning of creation and the historical accuracy of scripture. From analyzing fossils to analyzing the earth's strata, these experts seem to agree that there is a consistent theme in the debate regarding creation: time. In this film, experts approach this debatable topic from a variety of perspectives influenced by their areas of expertise. Kevin Anderson, a…

in life. Each myth has a story that explains the beginning of time and how everything was created. There are some strong similarities between the Lakota Sioux, Wakaranga African, Aboriginal Australian, and Hopi myths. The first similarity between all four creation myths is the creator. Each myth has a specific force that starts the beginning of time on earth. Each creator helps build earth to its entirety. Multiple creators for different purposes are also common in each myth. In the…

Among the countries of the ancient Near East divine creation was not a notion or belief instituted by the Israelites alone. Within the sociopolitical context of the Ancient Near East there existed differing creation cosmologies all of which intended to explain and define existence by having and understanding function within an ordered and created system. This holds true for the Genesis creation story as well. When the first chapters of Genesis are read, we begin to understand how God wanted…

Creation vs. Evolution By: Benjamin Garcia How did the earth and all of its inhabitants come to be? This is a question that has puzzled humans for ages. There are two main theories that explain how the earth was formed. These are the theories of evolution and creation. The most accepted creation theory is the one of the biblical creationists. Did a big explosion occur, setting everything in order and providing an atmosphere suitable for life, or did a creator lovingly design us along with…