The Sky Woman In Iroquois

There are several different stories and theories as to how the Earth was created. Iroquois is a story of how a sky woman who disobeyed a single rule, not to touch the roots of the great tree. The Bible is similar a story which countless numbers of people believe, says that God created Adam. To company Adam he created a woman from one of his ribs, Adam named her Eve, she was to become mother of everything living.

The sky woman in the Iroquois story had been pregnant and craving an odd drink made of the great trees roots, she attempted to force her husband to retrieve it for her. Knowing there would be consequences he denied, if he had him and his family would be cursed. The sky woman’s cravings became so strong she decided to fetch the roots

herself, while digging for the roots she fell through the hole she was digging. In the Bible God warns Adam and Eve that they may not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, they disobeyed. The sky woman in Iroquois gave birth to twins, one which was born the natural way the other was born through the woman's armpit, during the woman's birthing of the second twin she died a painful death. “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.” God declared to Eve. “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return” God says to Adam. God’s words to Adam mean since he ate from the tree he shall not be in the spiritual dimension and he was banished from the Garden of Eden. With this Adam and Eve became physical beings on Earth, Adam made love to Eve and they became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She later became pregnant again, giving birth to Abel. Cain pleased God, bringing him precious goods, Abel displeased God by bringing him scraps of fat portions. Cain became upset and murdered Abel. God banished Cain to an island, “anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over” says God as a protection from harm.

Animals play a role in Iroquois as an equal, the animals assist the sky woman in creating a place for her and her unborn child to live. While doing so the animals risked their own lives.
In the Bible God declared, “Let us make mankind in our image, so they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals and all over the creatures that may move along the ground” meaning that man held additional power than all animals.
The world should obviously be similar to the Bible because although there is pain and suffering, there is much to be learned from every situation. For every action there is a consequence one must live with.