Comparing Metamorphosis And The Judaic-Christian Story Of Genesis

Throughout human civilization, each unique civilization has its unique origins and the Native Americans are no exception. While the origins and history of many Asian and European countries are well known, the origins of Native Americans are not. Many theories exist about how the Native Americans’ ancestors arrived in North America but the widely accepted theory is the one I will discuss.

One of the greatest things that has happened throughout history was the creation of the earth, and the creation of the humans. We aren’t just floating around in the universe with no purpose and God is real. The Secularists and Evolutionists of this day and age shun Christianity, the Bible, and the fact that there is a purpose for each individual on earth. This paper is about some of the different phenomenons that have occurred in the history, but from a Biblical worldview. Many of the Phenomenons mentioned would be: how the dinosaurs became extinct, how the Genesis Flood fits into history, what created the Grand Canyon, and how all of the different languages and skin tones spread throughout the world. The purpose of this paper is to go into

There are many cultures throughout the world, and each has its’ own creation story, and many of them are very similar; however the creation stories of the First Nations’ People are some of the most magical. These stories not only tell how the world was created, but give a glimpse into who the Cherokee and Lakota were, and their views of the relationship between human beings and creation, and human beings and animals. The Cherokee and Lakota creation stories are similar in many ways, but each has

To study Genesis in terms of its literary and historical content is not to say that we are in any way being irreverent in our reading of this part of the Old Testament. In other words, it is possible to read Genesis in both a spirit of appreciation for its position as the opening exegetical narrative of the Bible and as a document that reflects literary and historical realities and influences during the time when it was being written down. This paper examines some of the contemporary sources that influenced the two sets of writers who recorded the events of Genesis.

There are many familiar archetypes found in the Creation stories of the Native American Indians. The Iroquois and Navajo Creation Stories from The Norton Anthology American Literature Vol. A, contains several archetypes similar to those of the Judeo-Christian Bible. The story of the Iroquois contains similarities such as a virgin mother, characters of good and evil, different steps to creation, Heaven and Hell. Some concepts follow through in the Navajo story, but it also mentions the importance of marriage, twelve tribes, interbred peoples, floods, and a rainbow.

Love in itself is a very complicated emotion, being either the driving force for a great blessing or a pressing burden. When comparing the surrealist chronicle, The Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, and the down-to-earth short story Samsa in Love, written by Haruki Murakami, this idea truly takes form. The Metamorphosis is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young man who works vigorously to support his disconnected family. One morning, Samsa awakens to find spontaneously himself transformed into a giant cockroach. No longer able to support them, the roles are flipped and Gregor is now being cared for and quickly becomes a burden on his family. On the other hand, Samsa in Love transforms Kafka’s original story as in this version, Gregor Samsa

The Indigenous people of America are called Native Americans or often referred to as “Indians”. They make up about two percent of the population in the United States and some of them still live in reservations. They once lived freely in the wilderness without any sort of influence or exposure from the Europeans who later came in the year of 1492, and therefore their culture is very different from ours. The Iroquois are northeastern Native Americans who are historically important and powerful. In the following essay we will discover some differences between the religious beliefs of the Native American Iroquois and Christianity to see if culture and ways of living have an effect on the view of religion, but we will also get to know some similarities. I am going to be focusing on the Iroquois, which are the northeastern Native Americans in North America.

One of the fundamental questions that religions seek to answer is that of origin. How was man put on earth? Why and from what was he created? Who created him? What does his creation imply about the status of human beings? Some or all of these questions are answered by a religion’s creation stories. Every religion’s creation myths attempt to give solutions to problems present to that religious society. Because of this, each religion may have one or more creation stories, each of those different from one another in the questions they ask and the answers they give.

What differences do you notice between the Native American and Christian origin stories? How might those differences shape what will happen when the two groups come into contact?

What led to Gregor Samsa’s tragic end? In the novel, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, published in 1915, a young man named Gregor Samsa wakes up one day, only to find that he has gone through a very shocking physical transformation into a human-sized bug. Throughout The Metamorphosis, Gregor’s family basically disowns him, and he begins to feel like a burden to them, so he decides something needs to change for them, and for him, death is the only option. One of the literary elements in this novel is the incorporation of biblical allusions. The first example, is when Gregor is hidden away and shunned by his family, this can be looked at as a biblical reference to Gregor’s situation, when Jesus is turned against by his followers. The second, and most prominent example of biblical allusion is the role that the apple plays in the plot. The apple can be interpreted as the same Biblical fruit, from the tree of knowledge. Lastly, when Gregor cannot move from the pain after an apple is wedged in his back, he states that he feels “nailed in place” (Kafka 52). This is just like Jesus, and how he was nailed to the cross.

While the Native Americans and the Africans inhabited two different continents, their belief system has a plethora of similarities pertaining to their core values. The basis of their religion also, in some ways, epitomizes modern day religion such as rites of passage. Their differences are shallow in context when it comes to what they view as sacred and holy and including religious rituals that are performed for a specific reason or transformation. Both Native American and African mythologies center around the ideology of harmony, balance, and cyclical nature of all beings through animistic symbolization. To a certain degree, all outsiders or nonnatives who study the belief systems of indigenous religions have found that indigenous religion is more than just a religion or belief system but rather an inherent way of living. To name or label indigenous beliefs as “religion” or any other is to have a bias based on our own views of transformation and ultimacy.

The Cherokees are very spiritual; therefore, they are one of the most religious Native American Tribes. The Indians have two basic views concerning the origin of the earth, for that reason the Cherokee Nation is separated into two groups. The main factor for the separation is how one believes in certain aspects of religion. For an example, one group has the notion that everything is created and protected from the sun. On the other hand, the other group assumes the theory of ‘three beings who were always together and of the same mind’ (“Cherokee” 252).

Native Americans believe that nature, animals, and a higher power work together in a synergetic relationship to foster the lives of human beings by providing resources, protection, and a guiding force by which to live. In the creation myths, “The Navajo Origin Legend,” “When Grizzlies Walked Upright,” “The Earth on Turtle’s Back,” and “The Iroquois Constitution,” these beliefs are shown through a variety of similar ways. Most of these include the use of animism, symbolism, and creation. However, while these stories have many correlative attributes, they also differ through their attitudes along with how they use these symbols and what Gods they may or may not have believed in.

Carr & Conway present theories of how aspects of other more developed cultures entered into the biblical stories as shared elements that have been crafted to resemble Israelite beliefs and view point. In our class discussions we were able to find these same similarities, particularly

For the first part of this essay, I will compare or contrast European values and ways of life with those of the Native Americans. When it came to religion and the way of life for the European Settlers they primarily believed in Christianity while the Native Americans believed in many spirits and ultimately one creator. This creator provided them the land that they lived on, the animals that they hunted, and everything in their environment that they needed to survive. Spirituality, myths, and mythological beliefs is something that the Native Americans also firmly believed in. This spiritual difference between the Native Americans and the European Settlers is what caused issues between both parties, primarily because the Europeans believed that the Native Americans were worshiping false idols and inanimate objects. It also didn’t help that the Europeans believed them to be filthy brutal savages because of the lack of government between them and other tribes, and their sacrificial lifestyle.