Creation Myth Analysis

In exploring the creation myth of the Aboriginal people, a story unfolded in a manner that was about beginnings, triumph and tragedy and community, but there are differences throughout the myth that separate it from others. The setting is barren and extremely dark, except for “an endlessly tall pole coming out from the ground” that reaches so far it touches the heavens far above. Mentioning heavens leads the viewer to conclude that the aboriginal people were not only religious, but reverent of a higher power. The main character in the myth, a lone male Karora is an extension of the barren land and he is looking up at the heavens while he sleeps. Dreaming of animals exiting his body, he is finally awakened by the warmth of the sun. Hungry, he eats those animals using the sun as an oven shows much respect for the elements. As without the sun, he could not sustain life. When the sun sets, and darkness appears he dreams of a sons, and by morning he has sung to life a prodigy, and then another. The father and sons hunt and cook

Food is represented by the bandicoots and the cow showing how important animals are to both of their cultures. The Aboriginal myth differs in how it shows that the bandicoots are a resource that is completely used up, telling its people that hunting is sacred in the barren lands of the dessert, where the cow represents everlasting food with the milk it produces. The creator of the earth in the Norse myth is a male God created from the earth, and he created the rest the first male and female to populate the earth, where the lone male is responsible for creating everything in the Aboriginal myth. Both myths include a tree, or pole that reaches high into the heavens and represents a path to ascension towards higher power, but in the Norse myth, there is no possibly of ever attaining a higher level of