How do creation stories establish appropriate relationships within society, between humans and nature, and humans and the gods? Creation stories establish appropriate relationships within society by the revelation of the gods’ expectations, an illustration of punishment laid out on unsatisfactory vassals, and the exposure of human survival based on nature. Creation stories establish relationships with people, nature, and Gods by revealing Gods’ expectations, demonstrating human strengths and weaknesses, and showing humans the favored relationship with nature?. A God’s creation is always made in his image – therefore, the God has certain expectations his creation must obtain. “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he