Iroquois And Judeo Christian Similarities

Full of wickedness, each generation worsens until Zeus wipes it out. The best creatures of the Golden Age did grow wicked. Zeus,raging at Prometheus for giving humans fire and helping them to cheat the gods with their sacrifices, decided to punish humans. He created Pandora, the first girl who, brings pain upon humanity with her curiosity. The gods gave Pandora a box and told her not to open it and she does of course open it, letting all the evil inside escape except hope, which is ironic.

Ancient Aztecs also believed there were five races of humans which are the first sun, second sun, third sun, fourth sun, and fifth sun which we are currently a part of. The Hebrews and Christians had a majority of the population of earth destroyed by a flood. The Babylonians believed there was a great war between gods that did some damage to the earth. The Yorubas believed that a great flood had happened. The Maori god Tawhirimatea created hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, tsunamis, and huge storms to torment his siblings for separating their

The Dichotomy of the Human Beings in Genesis The creation of the world and humankind by God was far from a straightforward process in the Book of Genesis. The first chapter chronicles the six days of creation, starting with light on day one and ending with man on the sixth day. Through Chapter 2, there is plenty of ambiguity in the verses, but the world is still free from most explicit problems and conflict. Man had been given a wife as a suitable helpmate, and they seemed destined to innocently and ignorantly maintain the Garden of Eden.

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And in The Iroquois Creation Story it states “ Among the ancients there were two worlds in existence. The Lower world was in great darkness;- the possession of the great monster; but the upper world was inhabited by mankind”(David Cusick). Now these two sections of writing are abundantly similar. Especially when the bible states that God created the Heavens and the Earth, The Iroquois Creation

Shalom is more than only peace, it is a peace that grows out of harmony and right relationships. The book "Cry The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton" is about a Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo going on a journey to Johannesburg and discovering devastating news about his family members, and beginning to see the racial injustice between black and white people in South Africa. This book demonstrates various examples of shalom being built and broken. Throughout the book, it shows how shalom is breaking, but towards the end of the book it shows that the shalom is getting healed. One of the main theme is discrimination, segregation and racial injustice and throughout the book, there are various examples of shalom breaking through racial injustice and discrimination.

following. Graves’ book The white Goddess appealed both because of its festivity of poetry and of the idea of the poet but also because of his investigations into the mythical sources of the creation of poetry. The White Goddess – the basis of all poetry and of all life, the sublime muse – stands in direct contrast to the male, fatherly God of Christianity and rationalism.

Athena is one of the three virgin goddess along with artemis, goddess of the moon and hestia, goddess of hearth and home. She is known to be counterpart of ares, god of war. According to some sources, Athena was praised for her compassion and generosity and is known to be zeus favorite child. Athena invented the flute but she never played it.

(pg. 47) To pursue this knowledge and then seek revenge after his creation, controlled Victor mentally. He is a monster because not only his actions showed it, but his mind was consumed as well. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster in this novel, because he obtained this knowledge that only God should possess, he was not capable with his actions to fulfill this knowledge, and allowed his self-ambition and revenge to control him. Victor became a monster by allowing this knowledge of creation to consume his actions and mind and in the end, it destroyed him and everyone that he loved.

He was abused, called out, and uncared for most people. The monster responds with that negativity of the people into chaos which drives the monster killing people because he was uncared. The monster only committed the actions due to people judge him by appearance and behavior.

Grendel Grendel was the monster that was killing all of Hrothgar’s men. Grendel was evil, smart, and stealthy making him dangerous. Beowulf stopped Grendel but not before he killed many of people. Grendel was a descendant of Cain who was punished for killing his brother Abel. Since Grendel was born from evil he could never be happy which angered him when he heard all the people in Herot having a good time.

When comparing the Judeo-Christian and Iroquois stories there were a lot of similarities that have the same meanings and also have physical traits that relate. They are both very different cultures, but surprisingly they have very similar creation stories. They both just have their own twist on it to match their culture. One of the biggest things that stood out was that they both had some kind of forbidden tree that the people couldn 't mess with to stay pure in some way.

In both stories we see a similarities of basic rule. Every action has a reaction. When the woman in the Iroquois story Sinned, or brought harm to the sacred tree, She fell to the earth from the sky world. As for the other story the lady Eve sinned by eating a piece of fruit from the tree of knowledge, which in return Adam and Eve were evicted. When we look at the Iroquois story the woman fell from the sky world, but caught by birds.

This can explain the suspension of Earth in the sky as is “hangs on nothing”. Finally Jeremiah 31:35,36 “Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar(The LORD of hosts is His name):“ Which sights what we know to be true of space and Earth today. Are these examples the works of God or do they just exist because they had to? Stephen Hawking explains that many religious leaders use the example of the Big Bang as proof of their religion since there is no true scientific explanation as to why or how it could have happened without an outside force acting upon it.

The Iroquois are a group of native americans. The Iroquois are divided into 5 dans. The Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes. Later a sixth nation, the Tuscarora tribe, joined the confederation. Agriculture provided most of the Iroquois diet.