- Kintu – first man‚ and brings a cow‚ and drinks her milk to stay alive. He wanders around and sees two sisters; Nambi and her sister are the daughters of Mugulu who is the god of the Sky. - They eventually walk up to him and ask him what he is doin on the earth. He says he is a man‚ and has to eat. The girls think he is weird and go running back to their father. And Mugulu asks questions about this man. - Mugulu decides he wants to tests man’s capabilities to survive. He sends his sons to find
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to make it work! So he inaugurates the world. He drops seeds in the ocean which slowly forms into islands and continents and conveniently creates all of our naturals. Like plants‚ mountains‚ ponds‚ etc. Though‚ there is a problem in Phoebegous’s creation. All of the continents are piled together in one spot. He struggles trying to stretch the continents around the globe‚ so he gets assistance from Flora‚ the god of beauty! She very seldom uses her powers for anybody or anything‚ but P
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Basil Johnston’s translation of The Anishinabe Creation Story portrays the origin of the earth through the beliefs of the Anishinabe people. This story offers great insight into what elements of life the Anishinabe people valued in their society. Johnston captures this genesis story originally shared from generation to generation through the oral tradition of story telling. The purpose of my explication will be to analyze this text in a way that will display how the Anishinabe people viewed their
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Champlain started off on a good foot with the Huron Indian tribes by helping them fight their enemies‚ the Iroquois Confederacy. A few shots by the white
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Canada southward into the Ohio Valley. The Iroquois League dominated the middle Atlantic region and contended with tribes of the Algonquin nation for domination in parts of the Ohio Valley. In the southern region three primary groups prevailed: the Cherokee‚ Tuscarora and Muskhogean. All of these tribes were eventually overwhelmed by the in-migration Europeans (and their descendants)‚ the diseases brought with them and the wars of
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“The United States was the phoenix that arose out of the destruction of the Iroquois.” This statement may seem strange as the Iroquois League‚ or Iroquois Confederacy as it later became known in 1722 with the addition of the Tuscarora‚ was one the most dominate Indian presences in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. It originally consisted of the Five Nations of the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga and Seneca. The confederacy referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee‚ or the People
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Comparing creation stories The two stories that I read did not have a lot in common with each other. They were both very different stories‚ but there were some similarities. But come on now a Native American story could not be like a Sumerian story. “The World on the Turtles Back” was about a woman goddess who was pregnant with a child and hungry dinning on everything she asked her man to bring her bark from the forbidden tree. But then she fell through the ground. Then she started on creating
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In my opinion I agree with the view of human character from which the Iroquois portray in this myth. The world is separated in two. One world is the crooked mind and the other is the straight mind‚ like the left-handed twin and the right-handed twin. To me the world is separated into good and evil. The good is basically the straight mind. For example someone that helps someone out with his or her homework is doing an act of kindness‚ which is labeled as a good person. Also for example some one that
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Iroquois Clan ANT 101 December 5‚ 2011 There are many different cultures‚ each having their own values‚ and rules. The Iroquois are an association of several tribes‚ of indigenous people of North America. The Iroquois have many different ways about their way of living such as rules involving marriage. What contributes to the way an Iroquois react and think? Is it kinship‚ religion‚ and beliefs‚ or is it something else? The Iroquois have a very well-known culture. Iroquois are indigenous
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Creation Stories The Egyptian‚ Mesopotamian‚ and ancient Hebrew cultures were all very different. The earliest known creation writings were dated from the third millennium B.C.1 Whether it is belief in one God or several‚ each culture represents one or more. How each God or Gods comes into their world‚ how they interact‚ or how they worship each God is unique to their culture. The creation stories are the foundation of religious cultures that have spread throughout the world.2 In Ancient Egypt
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