Iroquois Creation Myth

There was an island floating in the sky where the sky people lived long before the world going to the creation myth of Aboriginal in Australia was created. They live quietly and happily. No one has died, never been born nor experienced sorrow. But one day, I noticed that Sky women were supposed to lay twins. She told her husband, she was angrily said. In the middle of the island there are trees, as the sun has not been built yet, it provides light throughout the island. He tore the tree and opened a big hole in the middle of the island. Strange thing is that the woman looked into the hole. In the distance, she can see the water covering the earth. At that moment, her husband pressed her. She fell off the hole and rolled into the water below

Under the floating island, two birds saw the fall of an empty woman. Just before she got into the water, they turned her back to her and took her to another animal. They decided to help the women, they jumped into the water and got the soil from the bottom of the ocean. Animals failed trying one after another. Finally, Ota tried it, and when his appearance his mouth was full of mud. The animal robbed it and spread it behind a big turtle. Mud begins to grow and grows until it becomes the size of North America.

Then the woman took the land. She blown air and made a star. Then she made the moon and the sun

An empty woman gave birth to her twin son. She named seedlings. He was kind and gentle. She named another Flint, his heart is as cold as his name. They grew rapidly and started to fill the earth with their creations.

Saplings produce good ones. He made animals useful to humans. He made two rivers and put the fish in a place without bones. He made plants that people could easily eat. If he can do all the work for himself, there is no pain.

Flint destroyed most of his works and produced all bad things. He flows the river only in one direction. He placed the bones on the fish and placed the fruit of thorns in the bushes. He built winter, but the seedlings gave it life so that it can give way in the spring. He made a monster that his brother was driving under the earth.

After all, Sapling and Flint decided to fight until one conquered the other. Although not winning, Flint lost in the end. Since Flint is a god who can not die, he was forced to live behind a big turtle. Occasionally his anger will appear in the form of a volcano.

Iroquoi respects all animals. This is reflected in the creation myth through the roles that animals play. Without the help of animals, an empty woman may sink to the bottom of the sea or it may not create the earth.

Iroquois creation myths may be slightly different, according to the person who said it, because the six countries that make up Iroquo covers a considerable amount of land and has a considerable history. Iroquois creative myths provide Iroquois a guide to their priorities and their happiness and nature's happiness are balanced in the front. This idea still relates to Iroquois ceremonies today, at least in a traditional sense, indicating that the global creation myths have been done with Iroquois.

Creation of Genesis and Iroquois's various myths each have their own creative stories, most of which are elements of how a certain high power, power creates the world and creates humanity is included. Christian beliefs in the stories of Genesis have these important elements, like the creation of Iroquois's myth "World Turtle." The two creative stories have similarities, but they also have some remarkable contrast. These comparisons include two cultures ... how evolution and creativity will produce the earth. There are several different answers to this question. One is from a religious point of view and comes from the Bible. The other comes from the world of science and is based on the evidence that appeared in the last century. Evolutionism is directly contradictory to another theory that has existed for thousands of years, creationism. According to the theory of evolution, humans have evolved from monkeys for thousands of years.

Since North Iroquois, now known as New York, Quebec, Ontario, Iroquois has created myths at least at 1142 A. Details may change depending on the person you said the story, but the main premise will not change. Each story is unlimited water, no land, a human living in a high place in the sky where the forest is full of games, a river full of fish, and a planet agreed beforehand as a field of vegetable production It is the explanation.