Essay On Creation Myths
Creation myth are mythical views of the begin of the world. they usually have the core values in the creation myths. the core values can be express by their religious, ritual, or by their community. The Australian and navajo creation myths are similar in many ways, but have differences that show an inherently different way of thinking about the world. All have creators-gods that make the world into what is now. There are conflicts within their world, and these conflicts change the face world. Two creation myths that do not have similarities come from the Australian and the Navajo culture.
Australia's Aboriginal culture probably represents the oldest surviving culture in the world, with the use of stone tool technology and painting with red ochre pigment dating back over 60,000 years(Aboriginal culture 1). Their myths was very diverse in their beliefs of how they came to earth. Some of the australian believe that “god came from the heaven and they start making the oceans, animal, plants, rivers, and stream”; “while the rest of them believe that particular creatures were created by particular gods or spirit ancestors”(Holloway 1). Accord my excerpt that i have read “they came from the god …show more content…
therefore people would have thought that their beliefs was that god came from the skies but they were not. the australian had a more diverse mythology on creation of the world, while the navajo all believe in the same belief. The navajo have faith in, that life emerged from the earth like a sprouting plant rising from the soil. In the Australian creation myth, the australian have faith in that god came from the heaven and they start making the oceans, animal, plants, rivers, and stream, the australian called their creation period the dreamtime. the australian still practices these religious to this
Australia's Aboriginal culture probably represents the oldest surviving culture in the world, with the use of stone tool technology and painting with red ochre pigment dating back over 60,000 years(Aboriginal culture 1). Their myths was very diverse in their beliefs of how they came to earth. Some of the australian believe that “god came from the heaven and they start making the oceans, animal, plants, rivers, and stream”; “while the rest of them believe that particular creatures were created by particular gods or spirit ancestors”(Holloway 1). Accord my excerpt that i have read “they came from the god …show more content…
therefore people would have thought that their beliefs was that god came from the skies but they were not. the australian had a more diverse mythology on creation of the world, while the navajo all believe in the same belief. The navajo have faith in, that life emerged from the earth like a sprouting plant rising from the soil. In the Australian creation myth, the australian have faith in that god came from the heaven and they start making the oceans, animal, plants, rivers, and stream, the australian called their creation period the dreamtime. the australian still practices these religious to this