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Compare And Contrast Popol Vuh And Genesis

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In the story, “Popol Vuh” and “Genesis”, they’re the same in many ways, but there’s also many ways that they are different. They can be compared and contrasted as in many ways, but three ways that I found that they can be compared and contrasted were the floods, the gods, and the humans. They can be compared and contrasted by these three things because the both involve a flood, one or more gods, and how the humans were created, but they are able to be contrasted because they both differ in these three areas in someway or another. In this essay, you will be able to find out how the floods, gods, and humans compare and contrast. Out of these three things, the first thing they compare and contrast in is the floods. In the book “Popol Vuh” and …show more content…

A way that they are the same is the gods in both stories created a flood to get rid of the people with they weren’t perfect in one way or another. They differ because in the story “Popol Vuh”, the gods created the flood because the humans weren’t perfect and they didn’t worship them. Their vision was to have the perfect human that would worship them and do what they wanted. The first humans they tried to create was from mud. When they made the body, it didn’t look good. It was separating, loosening, softening, disintegrating, and just dissolving. Its head wouldn’t turn, the face was lopsided, and it was just twisted. At first it would talk, but it was senseless. It would also quickly dissolve in water. The next humans they tries to create were from wood.They were better than the humans made from mud, but they still weren’t the …show more content…

They were able to be compared because the gods both had a vision for the perfect humans. They both wanted humans that would worship them and would be perfect. The way that they contrasted was that in the story, “Popol Vuh”, the vision for humans were a little different. They tried three times to get the perfect human that would worship them. In the book, “Genesis”, when it came to god creating the perfect human, he was able to do it with an image he had in his head. Little did the gods from both stories know was that the humans they created weren’t perfect. The last things that is able to be compared and contrasted in the story, “Popol Vuh” and “Genesis” is the

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