‘’In the essay Cannibalism It Still Exist’’, Linh Kieu Ngo Explains how the Vietnamese refugees lost their captain on an escape boat. They were forced to survive with very little, after their food and water supply was gone. She explains how the refugees were forced to develop cannibalism by eating human flesh. Even though they didn’t want to eat other human flesh, the refugees had no choice because that was their only way of surviving. Linh also explains how all the Vietnamese refugees died after five month except for one person.…
Throughout history, different societies have sought to explain how the world and humanity were created. Many cultures have developed their own unique creation stories that attempt to explain how these concepts came into place. Each individual creation story gives us insight on how these ancient people viewed themselves and the world. At first glance, the Babylonian and Hebrew creation stories took very different routes to describe how mankind came to be. Over time, people began to notice that there were suspicious similarities between the Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish, and the Hebrew creation story, Genesis. Some people postulated that parts of Genesis were borrowed or derived from Enuma Elish, discrediting Genesis as the true creation story. While there are many common ideas that are shared between the two, the courses that the Babylonian and Hebrew stories take show they were not likely related despite speculation.…
Content: This course examines some of the great mysteries of the human past. We debunk many of the false claims that have been made about our ancestors, like the ancient astronauts assertion, the idea that a number of the world’s prominent civilizations were established by alien visitors to earth. We explore the historical, social, economic, political, religious, racist, and even psychological motives behind these representations. We also examine a broad slate of real wonders from the ancient world, such as the megaliths of Stonehenge. We conclude that virtually everywhere human beings have tread they have left a rich body of archaeological remains attesting to their universal genius.…
A new angle at looking how history developed. Civilizations are a product of peoples environments.…
The different stories about how the world was created between numerous diverse cultures are called origin myths, which are stories that explain how things came to be and are probably the first stories human beings told. There are many similarities and differences between the Cheyenne Myth, “How the World was Made,” and the Hebrew Story, “In the Beginning,” that show how each culture views its’ God and humanity’s relationship to each of these. While both stories have animals being created before the humans, it shows the power of a greater being which is perceived differently for how they each treated the animals or humans and how they created the earth.…
There is much to be learned about societies throughout history just from reading the texts that originated from them. Hammurabi’s Code, Zarathustra’s teachings on Good and Evil, Laozi’s Living in Harmony with Dao and Ibn Battuta’s text on Customs all provide a narrative on different aspects of culture including religious practice, governance, architecture, and societal structure.…
In human existence, the religious imagination has seen various stories of creation, most of which are incredibly different on the surface, but have an underlying sense of conflict. However, Genesis 1-4 and the Enuma Elish are completely different in subject and theme. In Genesis, the monotheistic path of creation leads to a world of complete goodness (Genesis 1:4), with absolutely nothing being tainted, due to the complete control of a wise God. However, in the Enuma Elish, it is not clearly stated how the the start of time came into being, but the creation of earth and humans come from the death of a chaos god (Enuma Elish Tablet 6). Already in the world of the Enuma Elish violence and evil has been introduced as an integral part of what and who humans are.…
Akhenaten, formerly known as Amenhotep IV, was the pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt. His period of reign was also known as the Amarna Period. He started his reign in Egypt around 1353 BC and it lasted for 18 years. His father, Amenhotep III, had a long and prosperous reign of about 37 years. Amenhotep III died and left Egypt under the hands of his son, Akhenaten, who was then crowned as Amenhotep IV. Back then, Thebes was the religious capital of Egypt and the state god was Amen. The name of Amenhotep IV literally means “Amen is content”. Within the first few years of Amenhotep IV’s reign, he introduced a religious conversion. He decided to eliminate all gods and worshipped only the sun-disk god, Aten. He built temples of Aten with different artistic styles. His actions led to the rebellion of Amen priesthood in the city of Thebes.…
This shows the importance and impact of Aten upon the Egyptians, as after Akhenaten came to power Aten was the only god, which they prayed to…
Various civilizations have come and gone. We are divided into so many diverse groups in terms of our different countries, cultures, religions. And the laws of the groups we reside in define most of our lifestyle.…
In the book of Genesis, there are two separate stories of creation. Both stories include information about God, humankind, and our relationship with God.…
Are there differences in the inspired narratives of Genesis 1 and 2? Of course there are. Many also scholars argue that Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-25 are products of two different sources. It reflect different authors, different time periods, etc. It is further charged that the narratives contradict each other in several particulars. Genesis 1 and 2 provide accounts of what God did during creation. But these two chapters don’t seem to agree. It seem like Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2 are different from each other in many ways. First, each of these two sections of Genesis contains a different introduction for the creation story. Genesis 1 launches with the eloquent and imminently quotable, "In the beginning God created the heavens…
How do the two accounts of creation in Genesis 1 & 2 differ in style and perspective (e.g., compare God’s involvement in each account: how does He go about the creation of mankind in each chapter that is different?)?…
The similarities show more about the story than the differences do. They both acknowledge deity, meaning they both believe in a supreme being or beings. In“ The World on The Turtles back” there is a great tree and in “Genesis,” there is the tree of knowledge…
One cannot know with a certainty whether the original creator of the epic of Gilgamesh, whose name is lost in time, or Shin-eqi-unninni, the scribe with whose version we are familiar today, knew anything of the legend of Heracles. However, while placed in completely different settings, written for completely different audiences, and filled with unique and culturally flavored adventures, the myths of Gilgamesh and Heracles display startlingly similar character traits and common themes. A detailed comparison of these masterpiece epics reveals an undeniable universality of myth and of human mind in general.…