Native americans :: essays research papers

Take a look what do you see? Heaven? Birds? Planes? nominate you ever thought that possibly at that place is another world above us? Well the native Americans did. They came up with preposterous myths like these witch are written about in the two stories, Earth on a turtles backand when Grizzlies walked upright. Your probably thinking to your self where do they come up with these absurd ideas and stories. However im sure if you lived in that time period did with no formsof entertainment and had to sit around looking at points 24/7 , you would more or less likely be coming up with some bizarre stories like these two. In some(prenominal) stories creation begins with a woman that is curios and creation is an accident. In two of the stories animals are highly looked at,and constantly helping or causing issues. Personification is also use to describe the animals acting humanly and other things such as the windentering. Although these twostories are alike in many ways they have sev eral differences,The two stories are both how curtiosity caused creation but there are many unique things that twist the stories to make them different, staring with the whole in the skyland in the first story the hole is created by a uprooted tree and is already exsisting in the second. The next thing that happens is that the pregnate women falls through the hole and is saved by animals and leads to the animalshelping to create an earth on a turtles back. While in the second story the girl rolls down a hill and mates with a grizzely bear an the grizzley bear is cursed to walk on all 4s.there was no land in the first story and there has already nature and land below the sky world in the 2nd story. The stories both end differently the seeds that the woman happen to get when she fell were planted on the turtles back and that created nature. In the second it ended with the grizzley being cursed.even thouth these examples from these storiesa are a bit out landish they were clever,and cr eature enough to make it into a high school lit book.