Genesis
Cameren Judge
March 24, 2014
World Literature I
Question 2.
With Genesis and the Popol Vuh, there are many similarities and some differences. Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Popol Vuh is a story created from the Mayans. Both have used unique ways to explain the reasoning for the world to be created. Bothe stories have a unique plot with an epic twist that explains the future of human life itself in the future for all humans that are to be born.
In the book of Genesis, it says that the Lord created the world in seven days and in the last day he took a rest and looked at his work. When he saw that his work was good, he decided to create a man and a woman to continue the world and have it be populated with him humans. After God tells the man and the woman about the garden and where they’re allowed to go and what they are allowed to touch. He explains you cannot touch the tree with the forbidden fruit on them or else they will die. The man and woman agree to God’s rules and regulations, until a serpent comes along and persuades the woman to take from the forbidden tree first. The woman is hesitant but then eventually agrees with the snake and takes a bite. She also gets the man to take a bite. God sees all of this and ascends from heaven and reprimands the couple and punishes them. Before the man and woman see God, they realize they are naked and being to make clothes out of leaves and hide themselves from God. God asks why they did something he told them not to do. The man blamed the woman and the woman blames the serpent. All in all, since all three creatures God created were in the wrong, God punished the man so that he’ll have to earn everything he wants by working hard for the rest of his life. God punished the woman by giving her excruciating pains during child birth. Lastly, the serpent was punished by being stripped of his legs and must lay on his belly to get to his destination and that all will quiver at the sight of a serpent.
March 24, 2014
World Literature I
Question 2.
With Genesis and the Popol Vuh, there are many similarities and some differences. Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Popol Vuh is a story created from the Mayans. Both have used unique ways to explain the reasoning for the world to be created. Bothe stories have a unique plot with an epic twist that explains the future of human life itself in the future for all humans that are to be born.
In the book of Genesis, it says that the Lord created the world in seven days and in the last day he took a rest and looked at his work. When he saw that his work was good, he decided to create a man and a woman to continue the world and have it be populated with him humans. After God tells the man and the woman about the garden and where they’re allowed to go and what they are allowed to touch. He explains you cannot touch the tree with the forbidden fruit on them or else they will die. The man and woman agree to God’s rules and regulations, until a serpent comes along and persuades the woman to take from the forbidden tree first. The woman is hesitant but then eventually agrees with the snake and takes a bite. She also gets the man to take a bite. God sees all of this and ascends from heaven and reprimands the couple and punishes them. Before the man and woman see God, they realize they are naked and being to make clothes out of leaves and hide themselves from God. God asks why they did something he told them not to do. The man blamed the woman and the woman blames the serpent. All in all, since all three creatures God created were in the wrong, God punished the man so that he’ll have to earn everything he wants by working hard for the rest of his life. God punished the woman by giving her excruciating pains during child birth. Lastly, the serpent was punished by being stripped of his legs and must lay on his belly to get to his destination and that all will quiver at the sight of a serpent.