Throughout the works “The Iroquois Creation Story” and “Genesis, Chapters 1-3,” both stories portray how the world has come into creation. In these stories, each description of how the world was created is similar, but very different in the ways it was done. These stories also include how man and woman was created, and how something bad, the snake or the bad mind, had affected the world.
These works have several things in common, with several differences to make the stories fairly different. The main actions that these stories have in common is the creation of the world, a basic background in which both stories start off having two planes of existence, and an antagonist. In the creation of the world, multiple objects were made in “The Iroquois Creation Story” that were also made in “Genesis, Chapters 1-3.” These objects include the sun, moon, stars, vegetation, animals, and mankind, which were created by breath being blown into the nostrils. The basic background of each story had on thing in common, which was that there were two planes of existence. In “Genesis, Chapters 1-3,” it was said that “God created the heavens and the earth” (New International Version, Gen. 1.1), while it was said in the “The Iroquois Creation Story” that “ among the ancients there were two
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These stories also have an antagonist that has destroyed or broken down what the creator in each story has made in one way or another. In “Genesis, Chapters 1-3,” the antagonist tricked Adam and Eve into eating the forbidden