The Iroquois And The Judeo-Christian Tale

During the 5th to 15th-century, or the “Medieval Period,” people were afraid and relied on their God/gods to be protected from the pelage of which they thought was the wrath of God. In the medieval time people made their own god/gods to protect themselves, many people made their own gods and made them into different religions such as Christianity or native American religions. These religions can differ from how they believe the world was created, or how people are created,even other Native American stories can be similar by their stories on the great flood. Two religions such as Christianity and native American religions can be the example of how two religions can be both similar and different at the

How come they have never met each other? Hey, but they all live in Canada and all met the Europeans! I wonder if the Europeans ever mentioned one tribe to the other? Anyway, the Inuit, Haida, and the Iroquois are the same in many ways but are a lot different.

Before 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, there were many tribes living in North America. Two equally similar and different ones were the Iroquois tribe and the Cherokee tribe. On one hand, they are similar because of their geographies and their economies. On the other hand, they are different because of their cultures and religious beliefs.

In some ways or what not, the bible of the Iroquois and Judeo-Christian are similar then most people see. To begin with, both religions are led by either a spiritual being or figure. As usual, the two stories begin with the spiritual thing or being creates the earth and all the animals and land on it.

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.

All different cultures have their own creation stories, mostly all containing the elements of a Higher Power of some sort, how the power created the world, and the creation a human man. The Christian belief in the Genesis story has these key elements , as does the Iroquois creation myth, The World on the Turtle's Back. Although these two creation stories share similarities, they also have some stark contrasts. These contrasts include, how the two cultures of the Native American Iroquois tribe and then Christians view life and aspects of good and evil, the way each culture views nature and the impact that has on their culture, and finally the way the Christian God and the Iroquois gods are portrayed to

Both stories have to deal with a tree of some sort. The creation story has a perfect garden, with hundreds of types of fruits. God tells Adam and Eve to never eat from the tree of “knowledge of good and bad” or you will die. In the Sky Woman story, there's a tree that you can eat from, but you cannot touch it or harm it in any way. In both stories the woman disobeys and eats the

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.

The five tribes were known as the Five Nations or the League of Five Nations.

The Iroquois are considered a branch of North American Indians, also known as Haudenosaunee or the “People of the Longhouse”. The Iroquois have greatly contributed to society through initiating the Iroquois confederacy also called the Iroquois League formed in 1570. The North American confederacy consists of five nations called: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, which resided in what is now known as Upstate New York. These tribes joined together as the “ 5 civilized

1). The reason for the construction of the Iroquois confederacy, or the league of the Iroquois, (Haudenosaunee) was the impeding factor of disunity between the tribes. Hienwatha, a Mohawk Iroquois, lived in Ontario and observed the disunity between the Iroquois tribes. In an attempt to unify the nations, he approached rival tribes and argued the benefits of unification. Initially, his idea is shut down by the elders of each tribe. The changing climate that started to occur, however, increased confrontations between tribes. Hienwatha yet again tries to explain to the Iroquois people about the possibility of peace and is rejected again. He then alludes the nations to a weaved belt of wampum shells which supposedly illustrated the connectedness of the five Iroquois nations. He traveled among the nations, of which all then supported the idea of unity, and was able to form a seemingly impenetrable force.

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

The Iroquois creation story is a tale of the Foundation of the Great Island. This culture’s creation story will “ ‘tell people who they are by telling them where they come from’ (Cusick)” (17). The Iroquois tribes believes that their creation story is correct because of the views they see from their culture. This will create a conflict between the European settlers’s creation story from their culture.

Throughout both stories we can see the major differences that correlate to the difference in cultures. The Iroquois for example believed that Sky Woman was pushed down the hole of light on the island by her husband, on the contrary, in the Judeo-Christian story it’s believed that Eve was the

Even though only the first story is told in today's world some of the events are repeated today. The first story is mainly about how on the first day God created the light ect. The second story is mainly about how God created the heaven and earth. Both stories have the same concept but they are both structured differently.