Creation Story Compare And Contrast: West Africa Vs. Genesis

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Creation Story Compare and Contrast – West African vs. Genesis Every religion has their own creation story about how the world is coming into being now. The West Africans believe that everything is happening in the sky, but in Genesis God only creates the sky on the second day. Although there are many similarities and differences in creation stories, the story from Genesis and the story from West Africa contain similar tales of how humans were created and differences in setting for the beginnings of earth. The main similarity from the West African and Genesis stories come in how humans are created. In both stories, humans are created by a creator God and both start for dust or clay. Both stories are told that man is created in God’s …show more content…

In both stories, earth is formed by a creator/God, but the West African creation is not dome by the supreme God as in Genesis. In Genesis, God creates the heavens and earth by command. God said “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.”” (Genesis) In the West African creation story, Obatala is touching the water with the sand poured from the snail shell and created the earth. Also, in the West African story another difference is that a bird flies out of a cracked egg and makes the “dunes and hills and lowlands” (West African) out of the spirts of all the orishas. The difference is that in the West African story the earth is created by a minor God but in Genesis the main God creates the earth and everything on it. In conclusion, there are differences and similarities in the West African and Genesis creation stories. Both stories tell how man is created by the dust of the earth, but the difference is how the earth was created and by who. These differences and similarities give both creation stories unity to tell the religion of these

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