Similarities Between The World On The Turtle's Back And Genesis

The Genesis account of creation is written with beautiful, almost lyrical, scripture. It begins with the first seven days of creation where God created the heavens and the Earth. He split the oceans and the land, as well as created all the many creatures on our planet. The message of the bible very much depends on interpretation, the wording was filled with rhythm. For example, at the end of each sentence in the beginning of chapter one, it has many phrase repeats but they sound lyrical. On day one, “God said” (Gen:1 vs.3) “it was good.” (Gen:1 vs. 4). On day two, “God said” (Gen:1 vs.6) “it was so” (Gen:1 vs. 7). These phrases repeat and overall form a kindly written scripture. In Genesis one, God’s official name is Elohim. He created the heavens and man. And made man rule over the created order of the Earth. Not only as the rulers but also as the care-takers, which hints at telling humans to protect the environment, as it is our job given by God Himself. Further on into Genesis, the story focuses more on Adam and Eve. God created Adam as a whole human being. Adam was split by God and the other equal half became Eve. The author of Genesis wants to stress the equality between man and woman. With Eve, Adam could have his other half to relationship with. The author’s focus on equality between man and woman is one of the biggest take-aways from these accounts of creation. “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh” (Gen 2:23). Marriage allows for man and woman to

In the literal sense, God made the heavens and the earth. Before God spoke, the earth did not exist, it was empty and formless. He said, "Let there be light," and there was light. This is the first day of the creation of the world.

As the stories go on, in both of them there were two children. Adam and Eve’s sons Cain and Abel, and the Sky Woman’s twins. One of the siblings was evil and the other was good. The difference between the two brothers is that Cain and Abel didn’t have to do anything with the Earth. Everything had already been there for them. On the other hand the twins had created everything on the Earth, except the water and the land. The ”evil mind” created the darkness and the “good mind” created the light, the sun and the moon. Also the plants and animals as they tried to overtake each other.

Since the beginning of time there has been stories of creation. The bible which is studied and followed by the Hebrews, tells that God created the world and all of it's things. However, the Iroquois states that the world was made and created by a different source, such as how they explain in The World on a Turtle’s Back. Both of these cultures explain what happened before and after each and every creation then they try to explain it in their own way. Different cultures describe and explain creation in different ways whether everyone believes it or not we are all the same.

In reality if this was the case the world would collapse from being too perfect and nobody would possess individuality. In both of these creation myths there are clear ideas of good balance within the world. The different stories show balance but in different ways. In, ‘The World on the Turtles Back”, the Iroquois portrayed both evil and pure elements of life through two twins. The left twin represented evil because he “always lied.” (Iroquois, p.42) He was “stubborn” and would not listen to his brother about how they should be born, the left twin wanted to be “born through her left armpit” (p.41) and in the end he killed their mother. The right twin represented the good in the world. He “always told the truth, and he always tried to accomplish what seemed to be right and reasonable.” (p.42) Together they “represented two ways of the world which all people are.” (p.42) In the Hopi myth balance was shown through the Sun God, Tawa, and the Earth Goddess, Spider Women, working together to create a beautiful world. They both came from separate worlds, the Above and the Below and both had their own jobs yet they worked in unison. They decided to “make the Earth to be between the Above and the Below.” (Hopi, p.1) Tawa is the “father of all” and Spider Women “nourishes life.” (p.1) Spider Women makes Tawas wishes

In both the creation myths of the Yoruba and Iroquois, the animals helped create the Earth for humans to live on. In many of these stories, the beginning started off with a vast ocean and/or sky and no world existed yet. To introduce the creation myth of the Yoruba and explain how the animals helped with creating the Earth, the story in “Parallel Myths” by J.F. Bierlein states:

Many stories have been created explaining who actually created the Earth. Popular creation stories are “How the World was Made” and “The Sky Tree” with Native American origins and the story of “Genesis” from European origins. These creation stories do have comparisons even though they do share comparisons. For example, in the beginning of all three stories, Earth started from water. “God’s spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.” The quote from “Genesis” shows to the audience that the Earth was all water before God started to create Earth. “In the beginning, Earth was covered with water.” “The Sky Tree” simply says that in the creation story that Earth started as water. “The Earth is a great floating island in a sea of water.” The three stories share that water was the starting point or beginning of Earth. To add, another comparison is there is a type of high authority or power that had the ability to create Earth and

Genesis 1-2:4 and the Enuma Elish are both creation stories, having been written at different times. These stories are rather varied in their natures, but they do share one main similarity: In both accounts, a divine authority created the world and everything in it, with the most important creation being human beings. Other than this, the differences in the accounts are numerous. First of all, the Genesis creation came from a single god, God, whereas in the Enuma Elish there are many gods, even though Marduk is the only god who creates the world. Furthermore, in the Genesis account, God created the world from nothing but His goodness. It also appears that the creation of the world in Genesis was an act of divine mercy and love, which appears evident from the way God gave freedoms and a safe world to the humans. In contrast, Marduk created the world and everything in it from the body parts of Tiamat to display his power over the other gods. As a result of Marduk’s evilness, his world was full of chaos and craziness, as opposed to the righteous world found in Genesis.

While there are many Native American stories regarding the creation of the world, there are three that are widely accepted. The most widely believed story is the tale of the Lone Man. The story begins with a Single Man in the emptiness with the Great Chief. To begin, the Great Chief created the form of the earth, and the Lone Man took sand and created all landforms on the Earth. The Lone Man was very lonely, so he created people. He then turned himself into corn so that he may live with the people on Earth (Neil.). The next most commonly accepted story revolves around two feathered serpents. These two serpents had the power to imagine anything into being, and were eager to create. One day, one serpent created the Earth and the other created all animals. Next, these serpents were eager to create again, but they lacked inspiration. Then, after hearing their frustration, the animals

There are two different creation stories presented in the chapter of Genesis in the Old testament of the bible. In the first story God has all dominion and contains supernatural powers. In this creation story God is masculine and creates everything out of the void in seven days . God has six days of working and one day to rest. An impression is also given that everything God makes in this story is "all good".

“The Book of the People” describes five gods; the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz and the Forefathers. Tepeu and Gucumatz came together and created light and the earth to fill up the emptiness that they saw in life. The Creator, the Maker and the Forefathers came together and created all the animals and the humans. In the book of Genesis there is one supreme God who created all things. God created the heavens, the earth, the day, the night, the sea, the sky, the plants, the sun, the moon, living creatures and humans. The Mayans and the Jews differ however as the Mayans believe in more than one god making them polytheists and the Jews believe in one supreme God making them monotheists. Although the two different people groups believe in different gods, they all believe that their God or gods created the universe and everything on it. The way the gods created the universe in both accounts seems to similar. The gods spoke out what they wanted to create and it was done. In the book of Genesis God said “Let there be light and there was light and He saw that it was good”. All of creation was spoken into existence except the first humans, Adam and

All cultures have different stories on how the earth began. Early cultures needed an explanation for how things were created and why things were the way they are. The Greek and Genesis both have different ways that they expressed how the earth began, they also share a lot of similarities. The Greek and Hebrew cultures both have very straight forward similarities. In genesis it stated that “the earth was formless and empty darkness was over the surface” (Genesis).

​All cultures across the world have different myths meant to explain the way in which everything was created. Members of the cultures, therefore, come up with their creation stories that tend to describe the creation of mankind, as well as the things around them. Additionally, through the use of relevant themes, the stories are told in a way that explains mysterious phenomena in the society, provide lessons to listeners and emphasize life aspects that each society finds important. As a result, myths such as the Iroquois and the Biblical creation stories, though extremely different, contain specific themes that, to some extent, show particular similarities. ​The creation story, as stated in the book of Genesis (Bible), explains that God created

Every culture in the world has their own beliefs on how modern Earth was created. They all include the same main idea, that some great force in the sky created the land, water, creatures, plants, the sun, moon and all the stars. They also believe that there is a heaven that was created to separate the living from the dead. For instance, the Iroquois believed in two separate worlds; one was dark and a ‘monster’ ruled over it, which could symbolize satan and the underworld. Mankind lived in the upper world though and a lady conceived and gave birth to two twins, one was evil while the other was good. The good mind created everything good in the world, including the sun, moon, stars, creeks, rivers, and many species of animals and fish, and a

In the beginning, God created the universe. At first the earth was shapeless and covered in