many different myths‚ theories‚ and stories out there that people turn to for these answers. Some of the most common creation stories are from the Cheyenne people‚ the Caddo and Mayan tribes and the Greeks and Hebrews. Although these stories are somewhat similar‚ they are also different in many ways. One similarity between these creation stories are the archetypes found throughout them. In the myths from the Cheyenne‚ Caddo‚ and Mayan people‚ plus the Greek stories and the Bible‚ there is always a
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My creation story In my opinion I believe the Islamic creation story which basically believes that God (Allah) all mighty clicked his fingers and proclaimed “Be” and it was. This is how I believe Allah crated the universe. Here is the creation story in my own words. Long ago when there was nothing‚ Allah (god) created the universe‚ the world‚ and our planet Earth‚ everything except for his self Allah the most high. (God has no mother or father‚ No one created Allah‚ all mighty.) Allah the Almighty
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Comparing Creations World Views The world and how it came to existence is an interesting concept that the human race feels a great need to try and explain. For centuries many religious leaders‚ philosophers and basically every day human beings have felt a need for an explanation; why are we here? How did we come into being? What caused the universe? These are the question that we’ve been asking since as long as we’ve lived. Today‚ we have so many explanations to these questions‚ however‚ which
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Creation Story of Japan In the Shinto creation story‚ it begins off by talking about the birth of the first gods and how the earth and heaven were not separated. The two began to separate in which the heaven was composed of lighter elements and earth was composed of the heavier. A green plant emerged which sprouted and created the first god. In chapter two‚ “the seven divine generations” were created. The deity the Male-Who –Invites and the Female-Who-Invites are the two main gods that help create
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culture has stories about either the world’s beginning or the way humans came to exist‚ in The Garden Of Eden (Tradition credits Moses as the author of Genesis) the story is about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden‚ going through the trials and challenges of life‚ the temptations of life‚ and the weakness of the lack of knowledge one has when they are created into a place with very little knowledge‚ in which all can be related or connected to the archetype of creation stories. In the story of Adam and
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Pima Story There is an endless account of creation stories told by natives both orally‚ as well as visually. Each story sets its own distinctive details on how the world became what it is now‚ however every story also has the accumulative detail of good over evil‚ and the creation of humans as a whole. After reading the Pima Creation Story‚ it shows some characteristics of the biblical legends in a more humanistic way. Throughout this version‚ the creator encounters varies flaws with his creations
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The Creation Story The Iroquois story and the Judeo-Christian story are very similar stories but they also have very different concepts. Both stories explain how the earth was created and who it was created by. They talk about different beliefs and share their opposing thoughts about certain topics. In the story about the Iroquois it mentions that the earth was started on a turtle’s back and that there was no all-powerful God. Yet the other said that earth was created by an omniscient being called
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Creative Creation Story The universe that existed was unattainable by reasoning‚ unperceived‚ unjudged‚ peaceful and quiet. In this empty place the goddess Inu’s baby brother‚ Hugo‚ cried‚ piercing the silence. Inu sighed and with that breath‚ the light and dark separated. Hugo stopped crying. Noticing she had his attention she formed a watery ball‚ calling it earth and above it she made the sky. She filled the night sky with the guardian moon and his gleaming stars and the day sky with a radiant
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that tearing someone apart could have created our earth? Well‚ the “Aztec Creation Story” describes how our planet Earth was “supposedly” created: two Aztec gods (Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl) transformed into serpents and attacked the hideous Earth Goddess‚ ripping her in two. The upper half of her body became the ground and the lower half became the heavens. There were two other very significant Aztec “gods” in the story that deeply affected the outcome of planet Earth: Tecuciztecatl and Nanahuatzin
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The Iroquois Vonda Matthews Cultural Anthropology July 7‚ 2013 Instructor: Rebekah Zinser Kinship is the cornerstone for how people within a society relate to others and race lineages. Many societies trace their lineage through the father‚ which is called patrilineal‚ or through the mother which is called matrilineal. The Iroquois nation traced their kinship through the matrilineal decent lines. Kinship directly relates to how family groups think‚ act and live along side each other. The culture
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