Native American Vs Genesis

Today, there are many theories on how the world was created however people have been speculating on how the Earth was created for years. It dates all the way to the Native Americans. The story “The Osage Creation Account” and “The Navajo Creation Myth” have both similarities and differences. First, both stories put strong emphasis on nature. Secondly, The Osage Account focuses on one specific animal whereas the Navajo Myth touches on many different creatures. Thirdly, both stories each have a completely different version on how the world was created.

There are quite a few similarities between the Greeks stories of creation and the Cherokee. In both stories, before anything could be created, water had been everywhere, and surrounded in darkness. It was void-like and wild, primitive almost. Another similarity

In the Christian version, there is nothing but darkness in the beginning. In the Native American version, there is a world like no other. In both versions, there’s one person who creates the whole world themselves. The Christian version says that God created Earth and everything

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

So much of Native American religion revolved around human interaction and relationships with nature. The difference between the two passages is The Navajo Origin Legend details the beginning of human life. In the myth life originated from a combination of corn, buckskin, wind, and eagle feathers. Common elements like weather, animals, and plants are seen frequently in Native legends as motifs linking humans with their surroundings. This is especially true of corn, which evolved from a wild grass and was cultivated at least 7000 years ago, and became an essential food source for Native Americans. Even a myth called Fire detailed a promethean character taking fire away from bears, thus giving fire to humans. These myths captured the complexity of their culture and the creativity exhibited through

At the beginning of the story about the creation is different: in Christian story, the first day God created the heavens and the earth. God created the world in seven days, and the world has day time, night time, plants, trees, sky, seas, lands, water, birds, wild animals, foods, the man ? Adam, and his wife ? Eve. On the other hand, in Iroquois, that has two worlds in ancients already ? the lower world was in great darkness and humankind inhabited the upper

The two stories have their similarities and their differences. In the Judeo-Christian story God creates light and the sky and the earth etc. in seven days. In the Iroquois story the earth is created by the sky womans husband tearing apart the tree of light and creating a hole that the earth is in. In the Iroquois story there are two entities at the beginning versus the Judeo-Christian where there is one. In the Judeo-Christian story, the animals were created by God. But in the Iroquois story, the animals on earth already exist.

The history of Native American religion is influenced by exposure to Europeans, the beliefs of different tribes, and traditions that were passed down orally.

In Salinan Indian Creation Story, there are resemblances both to Greek mythology and to the Bible. The myth says, “When the world was finished, there were as yet no people, but the Bald Eagle was the chief of the animals. He saw the world was incomplete and decided to make some human beings. So he took some clay and

Culture is intertwined throughout out everything that Native Americans are. Their religion, way of survival, justice system, holistic views, and so much more, comprise their culture. Over the past 200 plus years, Native Americans have been subjected and forced to conform to European derived ideology. This has impacted Native Americans culture from a past, present, and future perspective. These perspectives will be addressed as well as combined into one.

In most cultures and myths most people seems to agree on that the animals and creatures of this world, were here way before humans ever existed. The different ideas of ways of how humans are created are very different but yet most cultures do agree that animals were here before humans. Some of these creation myths also believe that an animal was honored by the creator or God to help create this world. Two creation myths that seem to agree on more things about the creation with animals are from Siberia and North America. Neither one of these cultures or tribes are from the same time period or location, yet their views are so similar.

There are several different theories as to how the earth came to be, there are similarities and differences with some of them. It is very clear that there are indeed differences in the stories, along with similarities. Many people are familiar with the Christian Bible version; the earth was created in seven days, Adam was created then Eve from his rib. However, not nearly as many people have heard of the Sky World creation story. Both stories have a tree with something forbidden about it.

In Native American culture, the most common way to share traditions about their culture was through storytelling from one generation from another. This is how they kept their culture alive long before the inventions of the written communications or computers to keep records. One of many storytelling was the use of various myths and tales where they tell origin stories about the why the way certain are and how it becomes. Myths and tales like the coyote who free the moon or how people come into the earth. By looking into some of these myths and tales that are in the American Religious Diversity volume one book, it will explore the Native Americans understanding about the sacred world and their relationship to that sacred world. Also looking at the noticeable differences between how these myths differ from different tribes like the Plains Indians to Woodland Indians to Pueblo Indians and to the Costal California Indians. Exploring the different stories will hopefully reveal a lot about the Native American culture and their standing traditions.

We can start for the Bible story. It consists basically that God has created the world in which we live now. What, He used seven days, and the last one, He rested. In those days, He started to create the light and He called it “day” and darkness too, and He called it “Night” the first days. Then He created the “Sky” and the “Earth”. He continuous and created the stars, he created all the animals and him last creation, the humans: Adam and Eve. On the other hand, we have Iroquois, a story of creation but told

In both creation stories, in the beginning, there was nothing. There was no humans, animals, or planets. In the story, “The Creation and the Emergence” it says, “In the beginning, there was nothing-no earth, no living beings. There was only darkness, water, and Cyclone, the wind. They were no humans but only the Hactin, the Jicarilla supernatural beings.” In the Christian creation story it is stated, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” So in both of the stories, in the beginning, there was water and darkness. This shows that Christians and Jicarilla Apaches believed that the universe was at