...Seminole Indian Tribe. Both tribes are made up of Native Americans and their myths explain the origin of the earth and its inhabitants. The origin myth of the Inuit tribe starts with the first man living in a peapod. On the fifth day the man pushed his feet and broke free from the pod and met a strange bird. The bird turned out to be a raven and began to speak to the man. They became familiar with each other and the raven told the man to wait and not move and then the raven left and came back four days later with fruit and berries. The man was pleased at this and decided to follow the bird, next the raven lead him to clay where he constructed animals like mountain sheep. Next the raven created fierce animals and created a woman so man wouldn't become lonely...
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...received the impression that you are a man concerned with making sure that all views are expressed, as seen from the following quote: “I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them.” Being a man that believes in the expression of multiple views and opinions, I ask that you would take the time to listen to my views. In this letter, I would like to question your views about supernatural creators, the central flaws of humanity, and the goal for human life. In your creation story, a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world. What was the purpose of having pasta be the...
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...understanding I refer to the creators in each religion as a he. This research is not intended to argue the gender of a higher being.) Native Americans, Christians, Deists, Muslims, and many other cultures have similarities in the ways they view the dawn of man. Creation stories have dated back anywhere from thousands of years to millions, yet it cannot be decided which version tells the true beginning. Religions and tales of the supreme beings who created Earth and life, come down in manuscripts and drawings that depict each individual purpose of life. With the advancement of technology, war, and government, the reason for man’s existence has changed and therefor his purpose needs to be redefined. خالق واحد صحيح in Arabic means “the one true creator” who holds and gives all power and life. The God, Allah, or Sky-Holder’s power is taken away in order for man to make what he has created right and so begins the beginning of a thousand religions. When man first thought about how to expand his power he did so while looking at his kingdom. From ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and even men like Christopher Columbus, power has stemmed from the ownership of land masses and the conquering of unexplored terrain. The world is in the state it is now because it shows who has gained the most power, yet man has neglected to protect the one thing that gave him that power, land. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, man has a “fragmented view of the world” (Emerson 237). When man can see that the plants...
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...the first people came to inhabit it. There are different myths for different cultures. The Native Americans have several myths. The Seminole Indians believe in the Creator who is also known as the Grandfather of all things. They believed the Creator made the earth. He then made all the animals of the world. The next step in his creation was to place all living things in a shell and placed it beside a tree. The Creator was hoping that the panther would be the first one to leave the shell. However, the shell sat for a long time. Over time the root of the tree formed with the shell and finally a crack appeared. Then the winds helped to make the crack wider. The bird began to peck at the crack until finally the panther emerged from the shell. The rest of the animals followed after that and they all went out to find their proper place on Earth. (nativeamcreation.html, 2015) The creator in this myth is a man. There does not seem to be any significance to this. One can only assume that man was always considered the greater being. The Zulu myth begins with just one seed that fell to the Earth. Once the seed took root in the earth, Uthlanga began to grow. These are long reeds that mean “the source of all things”. The first one to grow grew into a man. His name was Unkulunkulu. He is known as the First Man and the creator of all things. Unkulunkulu walked all over the earth and picked off the other men and women that were growing off of the reeds. He did the same with all the animals...
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...the first people came to inhabit it. There are different myths for different cultures. The Native Americans have several myths. The Seminole Indians believe in the Creator who is also known as the Grandfather of all things. They believed the Creator made the earth. He then made all the animals of the world. The next step in his creation was to place all living things in a shell and placed it beside a tree. The Creator was hoping that the panther would be the first one to leave the shell. However, the shell sat for a long time. Over time the root of the tree formed with the shell and finally a crack appeared. Then the winds helped to make the crack wider. The bird began to peck at the crack until finally the panther emerged from the shell. The rest of the animals followed after that and they all went out to find their proper place on Earth. (nativeamcreation.html, 2015) The creator in this myth is a man. There does not seem to be any significance to this. One can only assume that man was always considered the greater being. The Zulu myth begins with just one seed that fell to the Earth. Once the seed took root in the earth, Uthlanga began to grow. These are long reeds that mean “the source of all things”. The first one to grow grew into a man. His name was Unkulunkulu. He is known as the First Man and the creator of all things. Unkulunkulu walked all over the earth and picked off the other men and women that were growing off of the reeds. He did the same with all the animals...
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...In the Second picture there are two men in their own space whose action’s greatly effect each other directly. In one space there is an American man wearing a white tee-shirt. The White tee-shirt has writing on it that read’s “ USA Users”. In the mans right hand is a syringe filled of with some type of drug’s is my assumption. On the man left arm there is as tourniquet. The man has the syringe inserted into his vain on the arm with the tourniquet. The America man has the craziest look on his face like he can’t wait to punch that syringe plunger all the way through. This man has thought bubble that read’s “ I do lots of shooting up…”. On the other side of the image there Is a man wearing an all black outfit. His face is covered by a black cloth mask with an ominous look in his eyes. On this mans black shirt there are words that read “Mexican drug cartels”. Also on his body he has bullets going across his body and belt made of bullets holding his pants in place. In his hands he has what look to be a hand-gun on his right hand and a sub-machine gun in his left also a revolver tucked into his pants. Above the mans head there is a thought bubble that has a terrifying message "me too" replying to the American mans earlier statement "I do lots of shooting...
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...were created and what they need to continue to believe so that nothing changes with the cycles of how they live. The creators of the myths that are with the different cultures have Gods that they praise and believe in so that they have what they need and if they would not worship the creators there would be problems the people would have to face. Inca Creation Pachacamac was the brightest creator that the Incans worship and follow. Pachacamac is the sun and he was the brightest in the sky that no one could see anything else. The night skies were very dark so he created the stars, plants and the moon, which the moon was Pachamama and she became his wife. Pachacamac and Pachamama created a son and daughter which were created out of pity to help the people. The son helped teach the people how to plow and plant the fields and how to build houses. The daughter taught the women the art of weaving and how to prepare food. The children spoke highly of Pachacamac and the rules, along with be fair and kind to one another and to not forget their creator. With everything they were taught all Inca cities were divided into northern and southern halves, representing the male and female forces (The Big Myth, 2011). Zulu Creation There was a lot of darkness and just a seed which the large seed turned into a man which was named Unkulunkulu; he was the first man and creator of all things. There were other men and women growing from other seeds as Unkulunkulu walked by. Unkulunkulu created...
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...maternal imagery in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is clear, evident, pervasive. Yet, while the novel suffers no shortage of mother figures, Shelley’s interpretation of the maternal archetype in her seminal work is unique in its focus. The theme of the maternal finds itself in a paradox wherein its absence becomes evidence for its ubiquity; it is everywhere in that it is nowhere. One can therefore conclude that the concept of motherhood in Frankenstein does not require a mother, but only demands the notion that there was once a maternal presence where there is now none. By promptly abandoning his role as his monster’s creator, Victor seems to have perfectly complied with Shelley’s aforementioned definition of the maternal archetype. Still, some argue that the fact of Victor’s sex precludes him from ever fulfilling the theme of motherhood in Frankenstein. Victor is a man; the evident conclusion would be to declare Victor a paternal force in his creation’s...
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...themselves. The creature wants nothing more but to be a part of society, but unfortunately is shunned by everyone because of his looks and demeaning physical nature. The creature had no choice but to blame his creator for this ostracization. The creature is forced to be lonely and this deeply saddens him, as he has no intention to be alone all his life. He proclaims that “I am malicious because I am miserable” (106). He also asks his creator, “Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” (106). The creature is expressing his disappointment with his creator for abandoning him and causing him all this harm, that will no doubt last for his entire life. The creature explains his longing for companionship, “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself will not deny herself to me” (105). The creature wants his creator to make another creature, a woman, who is just as ugly as him so they have no choice but to associate with each other and bring happiness to each other. The creature didn’t deserve to have to live a horrible, lonely life, which makes his actions slightly justifiable, and some sympathy can be felt for the creature. Later, after Victor dies, Walton comes across the creature crying over Victor’s dead body. Without his creator, the creature is completely alone in the world, and he feels remorse for his...
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...what would each of us be like without experiencing love? The Holy Bible provides numerous examples of a perfect love from the Creator and explains that people have been created to love. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, creates questions about the responsibility of a creator, and what can happen when some basic responsibilities of a creator are ignored. The novel describes a monster and his actions due to his creator abandoning him. Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, there is the question of who really is the monster? Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster, can easily be compared to the Judeo-Christian God and the story of creation found in the book of Genesis. The God referred to as the creator of all mankind is driven by love for his creation, but Victor Frankenstein is driven to create by his own personal ideas of grandiosity and ego. The Holy Bible is the account of the Judeo-Christian God’s action in the world and his purpose for all creation. The writing of the Holy Bible took place over sixteen centuries, and is the work of over forty human authors. There are sixty-six books that provide various lessons for living and moral conduct, examples of love from a Creator, and a starting point for creation. In Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible, we are introduced to Adam and Eve. God places Adam, the first man in the Judeo-Christian tradition, in the Garden of Eden with clear instructions that he can eat from any tree except from the...
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...MOTHER is Jewish. Even though the the Torah forbids a Jewish woman to marry a Gentile man, if she does, her children wills till be Jewish. The Torah also forbids a Jewish man to marry a Gentile woman, and if he does, his children by that woman will NOT be jewish. What Jews believe in: Judaism believes that the Creator is the Only Creator, and the Only Controller. The Creator is the true One and Only Power, the true Source. There is only One G-d. G-d is the Creator. We often use the Name "Hashem," when referring to the Creator. The Creator cannot die. The Creator cannot suffer, and the Creator cannot bleed. The Creator is not a man, and no human can be G-d. The Creator cannot be hanged on a cross to die, or flogged like a criminal. The Torah also teaches that the Creator does not change The Creator does not have a mediator, nor does the Creator need a mediator. Furthermore, humanity does not need a mediator to have a relationship with the Creator. Therefore, Jews pray only to the Creator. It is not proper to pray to anyone or anything else, nor is it permissible to pray through anyone else. And it will always be forbidden. It would be forbidden even if that thing or person had the ability to grant what you ask for. The Torah includes two sections; the Written Torah and the Oral Torah. No human being can understand the Written Torah without the guidance of the Oral Torah. The Creator...
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...“Survival, Expansion, and Advancement of the White Race” is the first thing seen when landing upon the web address of what used to be known as the Church of the Creator and is now referred to as The Creativity Movement. Upon researching this movement, there were many different “associated articles”, most of which had something to do with racial and political terrorism, or radical Christianity. Through research, a common theme can be found in the literature associated with the Creativity Movement: the use of race, specifically “white supremacy”, as a ploy for authority. In this paper, I will argue the Creativity Movement’s construction of authority through racial violence and their creation of the “proximate other”. Started in 1973 by a man...
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...every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:26. The earth and all that it contained was to be under man's dominion. As to his stewardship, he was accountable to no one but God. Not only was man given a general supervision of all things, but he had a special responsibility in the area that had been set aside as his home. “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed … to dress it and to keep it.” Genesis 2:8-15. God had spared no effort to make the first human home on this earth all that heart could desire. His particular attention and interest is indicated in the expression, “And the Lord God planted a garden.” It was God's plan that Adam and Eve should reproduce, and that their children should populate the whole earth. As the parents had been made in the image of God, so their children would reflect the divine likeness. Eve had been especially designed to be a perfect companion for her husband. God planned that she should be a helpmeet; that is, suitable, or becoming to him. A perfect husband, a perfect wife, a perfect home, a perfect environment—this was the divine blueprint for a perfect world. The first pair had free access to everything God had created except one tree which the Creator had designated “the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Genesis 2:9. They were clearly instructed that under no circumstances were they to eat of the fruit of this tree. They were not so much as to touch it...
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...and move and have our being." This truth is central to our understanding of what God desired in His creation. We are to have our being in Him! God desires for us to know him intimately and to experience Him through His creation. The world around us is filled with awe-inspiring wonder. It is as complex as it is beautiful. God's amazing handiwork can be easily seen in the smallest insect, a towering forest landscape or the expansive night sky. Nature speaks eloquently of God's amazing grace and His desire to provide for us. After the creation of Adam and Eve, God told them to have complete dominion over every animal, every plant and every fowl of the air. The Creator placed His ultimate creation in the perfect environment and gave them control. It was to be a perfect beginning for mankind set in place by a perfect Creator!...
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...friends, but the abandonment of his creator and the hatred of the people makes him evil. The novel Frankenstein, indirectly debates whether the development of an...
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