Compare And Contrast Native American Creation Myths

The Navajo Creation Myth talks about four worlds which started out with the first world,

There were, without a doubt, myriads of Native American tribes before America was discovered, explored, and eventually colonized. Although their numbers were great, each with a separate set of languages and traditions, one prominent custom they had in common was oral tradition, and like every other culture, Native Americans made sense of their world through storytelling. Many of these stories are creation myths or origin tales where the primary theme is nature, and among these unique stories are “Changing Woman and the Hero Twins” and “Origin of the Sun Shower,” with the first from the Navajo and the latter from the Huron-Wendat. In order to have a better understanding of Native Americans and their general view of nature, one can compare them

Also, a ‘holy man’ could be a man or woman. Men and woman had pretty equal rights. Whenever times were peaceful, the village had a ‘white leader’, and whenever there was war, there was a ’red leader’. Fishing was a big food source for the Cherokee, they would even use walnut bark to poison the water so the fish would be easier to catch.

The Chelan Indian Creation story written by Welker is a Creation story told by Chelan Indians. The Chelan Indians also had a creation story about how the Great Chief above created the Indians. The Great Chief had created he made the animals and the birds and gave them their names. Then the creator left after his work was done, and after 12 moonlights he came back and the

The deer is revered by many cultures. Southwest Native Americans, and a handful of Mesoamerican tribes, in particular, especially sanctify the animal (“Native American”). Assyro-Babylonians described deer as a link between early life and the netherworld, and Norse mythology details their ability to move between the worlds (Thompson)(“Stories, Legends, and Teachings). Throughout the nations, deer are viewed as symbols of kindness, peace, caring love , and fertility . Cervines have long been a symbol of the interconnectedness of humankind and nature, since they are intimately interwoven with the fate of mankind.

Before the arrival of the Europeans in the 15th century, the Native people were owning the American land. It is believed that the Natives first arrived in the Western Hemisphere by sailing from Asia through the North Pacific into more series of migrations. Those Native Americans were also known as Indians or Redskins; they had their own traditions and beliefs (religion). Their religious beliefs started from 25,000 years ago until the 1950’s. They had no wealth and politics, barely able to write, the long and the short of it, they lacked civilization.

They were often disregarded in society, and were believed to be corrupt, unwise, uncivil, etc. However, their history shows a generous amount of similarities in which they share with other cultures, which points out that they are not what they are generally understood to be. The creation story begins with a pregnant virgin woman, which draws similarity to the universally acknowledged story of Virgin Mary. This similarity shines light on how ideas of creation are universal. Natives are not an exception.

In every civilization that has graced our planet at some point, each has wondered about how the world, and its people were created. Depending on the location of the civilization, and the influences from other civilizations, each early civilization has created some form of tale to explain how the world and it people were created. For this essay, I would like to review, and compare the Aztec’s creation story, and the Japan’s creation story.

Comparing Creations Native Americans wrote creation stories to find the reason how the earth came to be. Native Americans believe in multiple gods and multiple creators. The Lakota creation story and “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” have many similarities, which include a similar plot and characters. The Lakota creation story and the Onondaga’s myth are very similar because of the characters and plot that they both include. Both creation stories include turtles, who are the heroes of each story.

There are many pieces of literature that describe the creation of the Universe. In the following paragraphs one will find that there will be two in particular we will be looking at. The first is The Iroquois Creation Story, and the second will be chapters 1-3 out of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. By the end of this essay hopefully one will be able to see most of the similarities and differences between the two works of literature. There are various similarities between the two works of literature, for example in the Bible in chapter 1 verse 1 of Genesis it states that “in the beginning God created the Heavens and Earth”.

The brothers in the native American creation story hate each other and are son’s of the The Sky Woman. The brothers fought then killed their Grandmother and the head of the old lady became the moon. The difference between the Bible version is that God created the moon not that one of the brothers ripped a grandmother's head off and it became the moon. The eldest brother the Sun who represents the power of fire, and the younger brother became the ruler of the night so he can be with his grandmother.

Both the Iroquois and African Bushman creation myths have some differences, but they also have strong similarities. Before the land was created on earth in the two-creation myth both the animals and human’s relationship was very strong and peaceful and caring, the start of the bushman creation myth states that “In this place people and animals lived together peacefully. They understood each other”, and at the start of the Iroquois creation myth before the land was created the caring relationship of the humans and animals is shown by how hard the animals work to save the sky woman and help her build the land, in the myth it says “Just before she reached the waters they caught her on their backs and brought her to the other animals”. Another similarity

What if creation stories of contrary cultures share the similar aspects? In the world, there are at least more than two thousand cultures; among the diverse cultures, major cultures or religions create their own creation myth. Creation myth stories give rise to people’s beliefs. Even though each cultures in the world differ from each other, creation myth stories illustrate similarities. There are many similarities that creation stories share; among them, most creation myths contain the existence of an absolute being, the theme of birth, and the concept of time.

The ginormous, illuminated sphere gave the tribe something to admire. The only thing that the Kawi tribe did not enjoy is when the angels would fight. “Moma” started a young girl, “ why is it so cold now? Why are all the crops dying? Why is the Sun God taking away our Sun earlier?”

- Moreover, men are able to decide women’s path of life. - As in Pocahontas, Pocahontas’ s father can decide whom his daughter should marry. - He tells her that marrying Kocoum is “the right path” (4). Figure 7- Powhatan talking with Pocahontas about her marriage with Kocuom - This scene is taken in a medium shot in order to focus on the conversation between Pocahontas and her father.