The World on the Turtle’s Back 18. Why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth? 19. Why is the Great Tree important to the Iroquois’ creation myth? 20. What does this creation myth explain about the Iroquois dance rituals? 21. What do the arrows that the man brings to the girl represent? 22. What does the twins’ competition to make animals in this creation myth explain? 23. What does the gods’ reaction to the woman’s fall tell you about the role of the gods
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the Genesis creation account is a historical narrative and not poetic expression. While Young Earth supporters believe a “plain reading” of the English translation of Genesis 1 necessitates belief that God created the world in six, 24-hour days some six to ten thousand years ago, old-Earth view supporters believe that textual and syntactic distinctions of the original Hebrew advocate six long epochs of time. Old-Earth view supporters oppose that a verbatim reading of the Biblical creation accounts in
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For decades, people have been told about evolution, but few people are told about creation. Several museums say millions and billions of years ago, but only the creation museum and a few others say 6 thousand years ago the world was created (as the bible teaches). People go to state parks and they say millions and billions of years ago the earth was created, that’s not true! The Bible tells us the world is only 6 thousand years old. A lot of people listen to famous Hollywood actors, but few listen
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If I was going to tell the story of Mesopotamian Epic of Creation, I would start off by giving them key ideas of what events are going to happen. You have the creators that are named Apsu and Tiamat. They are basically the main people who have power over other Gods. So when Lahmu and Lhamu were born they end up emerging after they began maturing and taking in ideas from previous gods to strength there selves against other Gods they would have to battle. In which more gods were created and more started
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Michelangelo’s famous artistic paintings. Reading and observing each detail, I have concluded that the story of Genesis reveals the means of how God created the havens and earth and the paintings of Michelangelo has justified each creation to the details of the story. The first creation described how God created the world by bringing chaos. In this state the world was considered to be preexistent; which is said to mean that God didn’t create the world out of just nothing. “The earth was formless and void
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of the Indians was born of catastrophe. The heavens literally crumbled to pieces. The earth mother fell and was fertilized, while her children were torn apart by fratricide and them scattered and disjointed throughout the universe.” (Welker, Aztec Creation Story) This story doesn’t contain much that is similar to the Genesis story. Coatlique could be compared to Eve, in that they both gave birth. Coyolxanuhqui was killed by Huitzilopochtli a fiery god of war. This could be analogous to the snake that
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Have you ever wondered, how the Northern Light came to be? Well, there are so many different myths about how they came to be, but I’m telling it the way I know they came to be. One day, Athena and Zeus were walking out in their garden and they started to talk. They talked and talked about the boys, that’s what they did when they had their walks. Athena would bring up ideas she had for different things around the world. Athena was the goddess of wisdom, she has great judgment, and she has knowledge
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Creation myths have been used throughout history to provide insight on the different cultures of the world. The Kono people of Africa and the Iroquois people of North America both tell creation myths of the gods and deities their societies worship, however they offer different perspectives on death. In the Kono culture, Death plays a significant part of the Kono creation as evidenced in the story “Death and Life and Death” while in the Iroquois’ myth, “The World on the Turtle's Back”,the gods are
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“NIMROD/NIMRUD” The City of Nimrud: The Birthplace of Human Civilization. Nimrod was the sixth son of Ethiopia-Cush and the grandson of Ham and the great grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:1, 6-8). And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was “Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar (Genesis 10:8-10). After God
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The Biblical creation account pays more attention to details: seven days. Specific organisms being created on what days. This definitive sense of time contributes to a sense of more defined and concreteness about the story. In contrast to this, the Mesopotamian myths seem to possess more of an abstract and comparatively unclear account of creation. For instance, in The Babylonian Creation, there is no sense of determinate time in the story. It says, “Days on days, years on years passed…”. With this
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