In the first Pod we did we had the chance to read about creation stories from earlier people. I decided to read "The Iroquois Creation Story". I enjoyed this story because it gave me a view of how the Iroquois lived and was a lot of fun to see how earlier people explained how they thought Earth, humans, and space was made. I have always enjoyed learning new theories other than by just learning what the Bible says. For example, Greek Mythology has always interested me and still does today. As for the creation story in our literature book I mentioned at the beginning, it is really unique to any others I have learned about.
I will just give a short summary to explain the main points and to not spoil much. It tells how their is a lower and upper world. A woman ends up being pregnant with twins in the upper world and falls into the lower world. The monsters end up catching her on her way down and one of the twins forces itself through her side. the twins are basically God and the Devil so it explains how they fight and one of them eventually ends up winning. I really enjoyed learning about this view the Iroquois had of how everything was created. It was a very interesting story which I would recommend.
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