Native American Origin Legend
The Native American Origin Legends Native American myths all come from different tribes and many different religions, they have made up over the years. Their stories are mostly about how the world came to be and why creatures don’t all look the same. “When Grizzlies Walked Upright”, “The Earth on Turtle’s Back”, and “The Navajo Origin Legend”, are all Native American stories have different perspectives on how the world came to be. The stories told by the Natives were based on what their beliefs, and religion represented. Their customs also played a big role on how and what story they would put on a new discovered creature. “When Grizzlies Walked Upright”, is a story about creation of how a god lived in a volcano with his daughter. When the
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Like both of the symbols are small and harmless, but bring the most unexpected life to earth just like the corn and feathers from “The Navajo Origin Legend”. These stories all have in common that with a little powerless thing life can be sprung. Their differences would only be that on the first story what brought life was a seed, on the second story it was nothing else but a handful of sand that brought life and landscape to life. Last but not least on the third story land was not created, nor was it destroyed, but it simple explain how the human being itself was created from just corn ears and eagle feathers. Unlike on “Earth on Turtle’s Back” the grizzlies were beast and took the girl all for themselves. The archetype for “Earth on Turtle’s Back” would be Mother Nature as she was a woman and curios. For “The Navajo Origin Legend” their archetype would be the creator because of how it build and created humans.
Native Americans made new stories on what they saw and they made them on how they saw fit. Their stories along with their beliefs were all tied up to their religions. Whatever they saw and how ever they saw meant a lot on how their stories would be told and express over the years. Stories like this entertain us and gives us a small idea of how the world back then was
Like both of the symbols are small and harmless, but bring the most unexpected life to earth just like the corn and feathers from “The Navajo Origin Legend”. These stories all have in common that with a little powerless thing life can be sprung. Their differences would only be that on the first story what brought life was a seed, on the second story it was nothing else but a handful of sand that brought life and landscape to life. Last but not least on the third story land was not created, nor was it destroyed, but it simple explain how the human being itself was created from just corn ears and eagle feathers. Unlike on “Earth on Turtle’s Back” the grizzlies were beast and took the girl all for themselves. The archetype for “Earth on Turtle’s Back” would be Mother Nature as she was a woman and curios. For “The Navajo Origin Legend” their archetype would be the creator because of how it build and created humans.
Native Americans made new stories on what they saw and they made them on how they saw fit. Their stories along with their beliefs were all tied up to their religions. Whatever they saw and how ever they saw meant a lot on how their stories would be told and express over the years. Stories like this entertain us and gives us a small idea of how the world back then was