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Compare And Contrast Christian And Native Americans
How Christian and Native American Bibles are different and how they are the same. There are many different stories on how the world was made, nothing ever is the same. There once was a tree, that you couldn’t take or eat from because it was forbidden. The Christian is where you can’t eat from the tree because it give you powers only God can have. The Native American is where you can’t eat or take the roots from the tree. In both stories the women did what they weren't supposed to do and ate from the tree. Adam and Eve got banned to the west and Eve is supposed to have painful labor. Sky woman fell through a hole in the ground where she was digging and landed on a bird. Adam and Eve had two boys Cain and Abel, Sky woman had one girl Mother Earth. Cain didn’t like Abel because God favored him so Cain killed Abel. Mother Earth had twins one was born normally and the other was born out of the armpit and Mother Earth died. People die in both stories but they don’t die the same way. …show more content…
He found this nice man he liked named Noah so he asked him to do a favor for him. “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because i have found you righteous in this generation.” God also asked him to take animals each and every kind, male and female. Then God flooded earth for a hundred and fifty days and it took almost a year for the water to dry up. God said he would never do this tragedy again. This doesn’t happen in the Native American story. The Native American Sky woman had a daughter and her daughter Mother earth had twin boys. They were in the sky not on the ground the outer grabbed the dirt from far under the water. He is the one that helped make the ground, he also died in the process. The twins fought so much and when the grandmother told them to stop they killed her. Sky woman’s head was thrown up into the sky and her head became the moon. This didn’t happen in the Christian

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