Compare And Contrast Greek And Cherokee Creation Stories

First we will be contrasting them. These story start very differently off the bat one with god making everything from nothing and in the other a woman made only the earth and she made it from earth and that brings us to our greatest difference between the two stories. In the bible story there is an all powerful god doing everything as for in the native american one it is quite frankly a normal human making the earth and her family making everything that comes after.

In today's time, there are many variations of how our world came to be. Many of these variations, science or myth, hold similarities as well as differences that we can compare. Some myths, such as the Iroquois Creation myth and Aztec Creation myth, hold similarities that are told differently and used for a different purpose in each story. As previously mentioned, the Aztec and Iroquois creation myths can be compared. At the beginning of each myth, the first difference we notice is that there is only one being present in the Aztec myth, as there are two in the Iroquois.

Creation stories are tools used to try to explain the unexplainable. For centuries humans have been searching for answers to the what, when, why, and how questions that encompass life. Genesis and the Iroquois Creation Myth are two different stories that seek to describe the creation of Earth and the universe that surrounds it. Genesis describes a Christian perspective, particularly one of the most popular Western explanations to life on Earth. The Iroquois Creation Myth, on the other hand, takes a less traditional approach, while only mildly alluding to religion. The similarities between the two lie in the timeless battle of good versus evil.

Even though there are many creation stories, The West African and Cherokee creation stories have archetypal similarities and differences even though they never intermingled. While both West African and Cherokee begin their stories with nothing existing. With all the things going on in the world it’s amazing to think that people separated by thousands of miles and oceans have similar creation stories.

The two stories have their similarities and their differences. In the Judeo-Christian story God creates light and the sky and the earth etc. in seven days. In the Iroquois story the earth is created by the sky womans husband tearing apart the tree of light and creating a hole that the earth is in. In the Iroquois story there are two entities at the beginning versus the Judeo-Christian where there is one. In the Judeo-Christian story, the animals were created by God. But in the Iroquois story, the animals on earth already exist.

The Earth was too wet so the animals sent the Great Buzzard from Galun’lati and told him to go and make it ready for them. He flew all around the land, but it was still soft. By the time he had traveled to Cherokee country, he was tired – as his wings flapped the ground, they created mountains and valleys. The animals concluded that the land was too dark so they made the sun and gave it a path to travel on each day from the east to the west. After the plants and animals, humans were created. They

The Greek and Genesis creation stories resemble each other in many ways but also they have their differences too. Imagine two stories that come from two different places could have so many similarities, but it also has it’s differences.

In summary, the principle point of comparison between these creation stories is intrinsically related to the engendering of the heavens and earth. It is not coincidental that in each myth, an egg was responsible for rendering of both of these places. As noted above, there are other religious similarities between India and China other than their creation myths for the world. This latter similarity, however, is fairly important because it also adheres to the universal motif of a great father who is responsible for the making of both heaven and

In the beginning of both stories there were many gods or god-like beings that decided to go forth on vast land and create something they could control or govern. Each world creation was started from a single god coming forward and starting each chain of events.

Here we have two different stories, talking about the same thing: Iroquois (Sky World) and the Bible story. The creation of the world has had a lot of different visions and viewpoints, so those stories give their own viewpoint about that.

Many people have different beliefs on how the earth was started like god creating the universe or a explosion making the planets in our solar system and life, while the greeks believed something very different. Today we will learn about the god Aphrodite and Pandora the first woman.

When I look at mythology during the past and present I can find a lot of similarities in the

The Iroquois myth story is based on how the universe was created. This story is introduced with "sky people" living on a floating island. The woman in the story lived on the island, falls down to the water below and creates the earth and the sky with the assistance of the "sky people" who turned into animals. She eventually ended up having twin sons who created the rest of the world. They synchronized the seasons, created animals and all of the remaining aspects of the world. One of the son is good and the other is evil. They both created a balance of ease and happiness with difficulty and hardships. Obviously, this story of creation is a myth because it explains how the earth and sky are first non-existent and then created through the steps

In many cultures comma people have made their own stories of creation. These tales come from all around the globe. Creation stories can come from the Bible, the Cherokee Indians, the West Africans, and the Egyptians. The Bible says that God created the Earth whereas the Egyptians believe that a different type of god created the land mass. Cherokee lore states that animals create the Earth. A West African Tale tells how Otabala sprinkled roots from the Baobab tree and created the terrain of the desert. These legends and tales tell how early humans explained how everything came to be. In creation stories, many cultures showed similar themes even though most had no connections to one another.

For instance, the Epic of the Flood was approximately transcribed around 2000 BC; however, the tale of Manu and the Bible Genesis were composed around 1100-800 BC and 1400 BC respectively. The similarities between stories can be attributed to the trade relations among ancient civilizations. In fact, there is evidence due to the availability of certain items in the Indus River Valley that it traded with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, which could potentially explain the similarities between the Epic of the Flood and the tale of Manu. Furthermore, “the Genesis stories are based on ancient oral traditions that had a long and complex history of transmission,” which could potentially explain the similarities between the Bible Genesis and the Epic of the Flood. Even with the presence of a multitude of similarities among all three stories, there are still some minor differences that occur.