Essay On Iroquois Tribe

No two cultural or society is exactly the same. The Iroquois and Christians display how every culture has something that makes it different from any other culture. Every culture in one way or the other holds a deity of some sort to a higher status. What often differs between the cultures is the level of importance or value placed on this higher deity. The Bible places God on a level much higher than any humans could ever be on. God is seen as the almighty creator of everything in this world from plants, to animals and humans: “God saw all that he made, and it was very good” (New International Version 1:31). God is the one who created every little detail of this world from day/night to the oceans and skies. This is very different from the Iroquois
In the Iroquois tribe, this is the complete opposite, there is no banishment or cursing of anyone. The Iroquois don’t place value in the gods, instead the importance and value is placed on the woman who falls and the family she had on our world. In the Iroquois myth the gods don’t play a role in create the land at all, the woman with help from the animals creates the land the Iroquois tribe lives on. The Iroquois tribe places importance and value on the humans who created the structures of their lifestyle much higher than the gods. The gods aren’t some untouchable being. In fact, the Iroquois people and the gods are exactly the same: “Far above this unpeopled world, there was a Sky-World. Here lived gods who were like people- like Iroquois” (Iroquois 25). The gods are not some majestic and higher being like God is in the Bible. The gods are people, is establishes an equilibrium between the gods and the Iroquois people. No one group is better than the other group. The Bible hold one God of utmost importance. God is better and greater than the human can ever image. Humans with the Biblical ideology and belief should desire to please and obey God and all his commands. God is in the biblical sense the one and only ruler of all