When Grizzlies Walked Upright The Earth On Turtle's Back

Part one: The three short stories- When Grizzlies Walked Upright, The Earth on Turtle’s Back, and The Navajo Origin Legend – all share a similar concept. The story The Earth on Turtle’s Back talks about before Earth even existed everything was water and there were birds and animals that swam around. Up, above the clouds, was a skyland where humans lived. In the end of this short story a small little muskrat brings up land from underneath the water and gives the chief’s wife a place to stand and live. In which she drops seeds to make trees and plants grow and so on. This explains the origin of how land was formed on Earth. The next story, When Grizzlies Walked Upright, talks about how a chief moved down to earth to live because he got tired of living in the bitter cold sky, but his
But the differences in the stories are the fact that each story has a different topic, each story was told by a different Native American tribe, and each has different beliefs and symbols. Each story shares a separate similarity with the bible story of how God created Earth, humans, and animals. God commanded that the water would come together and make dry ground which he called land, this can be compared to the story of The Earth on Turtle’s Back where instead, land was dragged up and then spread rather then pulled together and formed. God used clay and water to create humans which is very similar to the Navajos belief in the use of corn and buckskin instead. Finally in the story When Grizzlies Walked Upright, grizzlies were cursed to walk on all fours and never speak; in the bible story God just creates all animals how we would see them today on the fifth day of his