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Comparing Coyote And The Buffalo And Eve From The Book Of Genesis

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Rules for a Reason A creation myth could be described as a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. When we read the creation myths in class I noticed that each one we read held a specific lesson. Two of these myths stuck out to me, Coyote and the Buffalo and the story of Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis. The lesson that I took from both stories is that neglecting the rules has consequences and in both stories characters suffer because of this. Coyote and the Buffalo is a Native American creation myth about a coyote who stumbles across the bones of his enemy, the buffalo. Coyote is overjoyed and kicks dirt on the bones and spits on them. Suddenly Buffalo comes back to life and tries to kill Coyote,
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