Compare And Contrast Popul Vuh
The Creation stories of Popul and Genesis are somewhat similar but yet they are so much different from one another. Popul Vuh is a book that was written in a different language called Quiché. The story contains the genealogy of the rulers of the past classic Quiche Maya kingdom and mythological telling’s. Genesis is a Narrative History, the book was written by Moses around 1450-1410 B.C (“When was Genesis Written”). This book is the first book found in the Bible, the word Genesis means “in the beginning”. Genesis was written to show us that God loves what he created for us. The stories were both created to teach us about the past and how everything was created in different views around the world. In every story about creation there has to be a creator or God figure. Popul Vuh has may Gods, too many to even name. Genesis has only one God, his name is God or Jesus Christ. Popul Vuh Gods were created by “thinkers”. The God of the Maya kingdom was created in an eye that was evil. Popul Vuh was through God in genesis was created in his own image. In Genesis the creator was made
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The animals were brought on the earth by the creator Gods to be worshiped, but when they put them on land they realized that they could not talk, the Gods had failed. The creator Gods realized that the animals could become food for the humans. They then created for themselves to be worshiped since they failed at creating the animals who didn’t talk In Genesis, God first created the heaven and the earth, only on the sixth day he created “the beast of the earth after his kind” (paragraph 8). In both the stories man was created and there was an order to the process of the making of the earth. Popul Vuh and Genesis creators thought the same and made the world in an orderly fashion. Such in Genesis God created the world in six days and rested on the
The animals were brought on the earth by the creator Gods to be worshiped, but when they put them on land they realized that they could not talk, the Gods had failed. The creator Gods realized that the animals could become food for the humans. They then created for themselves to be worshiped since they failed at creating the animals who didn’t talk In Genesis, God first created the heaven and the earth, only on the sixth day he created “the beast of the earth after his kind” (paragraph 8). In both the stories man was created and there was an order to the process of the making of the earth. Popul Vuh and Genesis creators thought the same and made the world in an orderly fashion. Such in Genesis God created the world in six days and rested on the