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Good And Evil In The Iroquois Creation Story

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But, perhaps one may argue that’s at its core the Iroquois Creation Story seeks not to account for the waged between good and evil for authority, but rather that the universe must exists with both, seeing that they can and often do exists within each other.
Even before the creation of the world that it is believed mankind exists on today, there was a presence of the good and evils of the world. The myth begins with the existence of two worlds, an Upper World, sustaining the life of mankind, or more accurately godly beings, and the world below populated by monsters and influenced by darkness. The tension is seen almost immediately. One can assume that the inhabitants of the Upper World, the gods in sorts, were good and clearly the monsters below were evil, as implied by their existence in the shadows and darkness. Upon her pregnancy, the Sky woman, an inhabitant of the world above, sinks down and begins a fall into the world below. A reference of good and evil starts here, where the Sky woman leaves a place of good and light and somehow is sent or sank into a place of darkness and evil. Even creation of the world, one can see that good and evil, light and darkness have existed together.
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Amusing in this twist of the story, the Sky woman is source of evil in this new world created on the turtle, and during the labor she births twins, one of good nature and one born with evil. From this resounds a powerful testimonial, that often good and evil can arise from the same origins. From the womb these twins have waged the war of their natures encompassing good and evil, Bad Mind seeking “to pass out under the side of the parent’s arm, and the other infant [Good Mind] in vain endeavored to prevent his design (Norton).” Note here that the endeavor was in vain, meaning that Bad Mind overpowered, and this results in the death shortly after of the Sky Woman

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