Wednesday, September 3, 2008
NA mythology
As I was reading some Native America creations stories, i saw many similarities among many of them. They were all similar to the bible creation story is the sense that the believe the world was created by a godly figure such as a Great Spirit or Great Lord. They were also all very big nature people. They believed nature, land, and animals were very important and formed a huge part into their creation stories. As most of their stories began with the world being covered completely with water, they developed into saying that the animals came together and helped with the creation of earth. It is also visible that they are very involved with nature and we see their stories revolve around it. They mentioned many times how they praised their land and animals as if they were people. The Natives were also huge on the community and them working as well as having an elected chief to watch over their tribes. Most of the creation stories are very similar since the Natives believed in very specific customs, and from there developed their creation stories.
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