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    Iroquois Creation Story

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    Indians. They are quite unique in the way they hunt, eat, practice their faith, and many other aspects of their community. The most interesting about them is their creation story, sky woman. Not only is there more than one version of the story, but it has had such an impact on the way they live. Before talking about the creation story, I want to introduce a few facts about the Iroquois people. The Iroquois had six different languages including Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora

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    Throughout the stories in Genesis, biblical characters surpass universal limits set by God, therefore causing disorder and sin to wreak havoc on Earth. In Genesis chapters 2-3, the second part of the creation story tells of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. However, Eve is not alone, as she gives into temptation and eats a forbidden apple after being tricked by a snake. While some interpretations conclude that this snake already represents chaos and sin, the snake’s power is meaningless without

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    native Iroquois people, like many cultures around the world, have their own creation story. Because the source for the Iroquois creation story has no date, it could be possible that the story was created after contact with the missionaries from Europe. The story begins with nothing but an ocean and the gods whom resembled the Iroquois who live in the Sky World. (Iroquois Document, n.d, 3-4). The most relevant part of the story in relation to the conquest of the new world are the actions of the twins

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    Similarities and Differences of Creation Story Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She knows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep” (Sagan 1). In this quote, Emerson means ‘she’ as the Universe; therefore, by this quote he means to say that the Universe only shows us her surface. In reality, the more we find out about the Universe, the less we know about her since she is ‘million fathoms deep’ (Ralph Waldo Emerson). The Universe is

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    religion is different in their own, unique ways. One major difference is their creation stories; how their religion came about and what they believe. This is caused by the fact that they each have their own text in which they read things from. Hindu’s read from the Ramayana, Muslims read the Quran, and Buddhist read the Sutra. Many religious stories are passed down through generations that tell of the past. Some stories can be alike such as Christianity and Islam. In Hinduism, they believe that

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    Sioux Creation Story

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    The Sioux creation story and the book of Genesis in the Bible both mirror an image of how the world along with human life was created. When forming their creations they were dissimilar in the way they produced water and land. In Genesis God created water by just a spoken word and it would appear. However, the Creating Power would form his creations with objects using his hands to form land from mud the story states “He sang all the while that he shaped the mud in his hands and spread it on the water

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    The Greek Creation Story

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    those who follow it, but also provides answers to the hard questions of where we as a human race came from. Although stories differ between cultures, most of the older religions and even some newer faiths have a few similar key concepts to them; namely, in the creation story. The mechanism most commonly used to create Earth is always a god. Taking a look at the Greek creation story is by far the easiest to understand this, as the goddess Gaia is still even to this day sometimes referred

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    Jain's Creation Story

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    What is important is to renounce any desires and be inactive. Jain’s also attempt to not hurt anything to not create any karma. Let’s pretend that Jain’s find a true creation story and it doesn’t go in line with the western religions. Will finding this truth really help Jain’s live a good ascetic life style? Probably not, therefore Jain’s will not bother and just say the universe is eternal. 5. The most viable option is

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    The Tewa Creation Story

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    how miserable Hell or the world below a world may seem, there can still be a light at the end of the tunnel. However, the light cannot be reached easily; it requires hard-work, determination, and even getting knocked down. As told in the Tewa Creation story, a man is finally allowed to explore the world above his own. Almost immediately, he meets a group of animals, a species he has never seen before: “On seeing the man these animals rushed him, knocked him down, and scratched him badly. Then

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    How it all began…. Back to the beginning of time, everyone has their stories of how they were created or brought to this earth. Well this is the story of how the people of the tribe Wikakawin, were created. They were found by a set of twins, one a girl and the other a boy. Their names were Sylvester, and Zariya. They were walking home when they found the people of the Wikakawin Tribe. The twins were from the planet of Zenon, they were visiting Clarity (or as we know it, Earth). They were on

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