Creation Story Comparison

Creation Stories from Around the World
The creation of earth and the people that inhabit it has always been a popular story to tell amongst people of different races and nationalities. The most popular creation story is from the Christian Holy Bible. Many other creation stories exist like that of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska and the Japanese creation stories of Shinto. These stories are similar in that they all involve the creation of earth and heavens told in the style of certain peoples which usually revolves around a God or Gods.
In the Holy Bible the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day from all the hard work. On the first day he is said to have created the heavens and the earth. It really doesn’t go any more in depth than thatI would like it to say something more interesting but it doesn’t. On the subsequent days he went on to create the other things on earth like humans and animals. It doesn’t say how he created this stuff. My guess would be he just blinked and it appeared. It looks to me that whoever wrote the bible didn’t pay much attention to detail! The Bible focuses more on the fact that Jesus is God and he created this stuff so end of story. The important things in the b

The Tlingit creation story was very detailed and contained a great deal of mythical types of stories. I would think that is because of the oral traditions of the Native people. When you tell a story usually you will add to it what you wish to make it sound better to your audience. I suspect that this is why many of the Native American stories are so long and detailed. This particular native creation story tells of a raven that is responsible for bringing out the stars and placing water throughout the world. In their creation story the Raven is the creator of things. It is very similar to the creation story of the Cherokee. One thing that I enjoy about the Native American stories is the elaborate animal stories. It was also funny in the Tlingit creation story because in the beginning they kept talking about throwing dog manure on people! You don’t see much of that in the Bible! LOL! Native Americans held a great respect for nature and animals. Before the Spaniards and Europeans introduced Jesus into their lives I think that they make have kind of worshipped animals. The white buffalo is still held sacred by many Western tribes. I was told that along time ago my ancestors would walk outside after a child was born and the fi