Genesis Myth: Carbon Copy Of The Truth

Carbon Copy of the Truth? Genesis and the Popol Vuh are mythical stories of creation composed on opposite sides of the world. These stories set the narrative tone for each of their respective audiences (cultures) by giving a sense of purpose for humanity and answering the basic, fundamental question: Why do we exist? In their earliest form, both of these epic stories of human creation and existence were passed down in oral form from generation to generation. The book of Genesis, the sacred text of the ancient Hebrew people, is the first book of the Pentateuch in the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible. Along with creation, the Genesis narrative tells tales of innocence, the loss of innocence, the wickedness of mankind, Noah and the flood, and

Seven Macaw can be compared to Lucifer in the Bible. The gods wanted lord Seven Macaw destroyed because they saw “evil in his self-magnification (Puchner 526).” A parallel can be drawn to Lucifer, an archangel created to rule over the earth, with his fall from heaven because he said he would “make himself the Most High (Isaiah 14:13).” After Seven Macaw was defeated by the twin heroes, Popol Vuh text suggests that the earth was still dark without the light of the sun. After Satan (Lucifer) was defeated and condemned to hell, the earth was the empty void described in Genesis 1:2. God simply wiped out the earth created in Genesis 1:1. The multiple attempts of the Mayan gods at creation may possibly be true and may help to explain the “gap theory” of creation in Genesis. An alternate translation of Genesis 1:2 in the NIV text can be read as “now the earth became formless and empty”, suggesting that there was a significant gap of time between the

They venture into the depths of the underworld to avenge the death of their father and uncle, One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu. After they triumph through the many obstacles of the underworld, they use their magic and trickery to defeat the demon Xibalba. Hunahpu and Xbalanque put on a show for Xibalba and the ruling court of the underworld by making sacrifices and then bring them right back to life. Finally, Xibalba to be sacrificed and then brought back to life, but they never brought him back. When the underworld was defeated, the twins were elevated to divine status: “One of them arose as the sun, and the other as the moon (Christenson 179).” It was at this point that the tone was set for the creation of