Iroquois Creation Story Essay

Everyone has a different belief or religion, and every religion has a different creation story. Comparing the Christian creation story next to the Iroquois creation story there are several similarities and well as differences.

The Christian creation story is very well known but if one doesn’t know, a basic understand would go like this: In the book of Genesis, God creates earth and living creature during six days; of the sixth day he created man and from the man rib a woman from his image. They were placed in Eden and told to never eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. A serpent talked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit and in return she talked Adam into it. They were forced from Eden as punishment. On top of this, Eve

The great tree processed every fruit on it which the people were free to eat but they were told to never touch the root because it will harm the tree. Well the chief left out to get it but never returned and so she went to get it herself. As she dug for the root she picked little plants from around the tree. She leaned forward and fell through the hole into darkness and the further she fell the closer this little planet called earth. Some birds took her to the surface but it was covered with water so a sea turtle rested her on his back and animals drove down to the bottom of the ocean to get dirt to make her most comfortable, all of them died at the quest. She planted the plants she had from the bottom of the great tree. Then she danced and sang which made dirt stretch into make land. As she waited, she kept track of time but marking the shell of the turtle. The math to this is thirteen months times twenty eight days equals three hundred sixty four days which makes the calendar. When her daughter was finally born she was named mother earth. From her twin boys were born and she died in childbirth. After the boys grew they murdered their grandmother in a fierce rage. From that moment on she was known as mother moon. The boys created more plants and animals. They connected trees to people to create a balance just like how one brother was light and the other was dark. This is just a brief vague summary of the Iroquois creation