The similarities between the Hebrew version of how God created the Earth and the Quiche Indian version of how the many gods created the Earth together, are uncanny. The beginning of both stories’ portrays Earth as a vast expanse of uninhabited and noiseless water. Only after the high power(s) decided that they wanted to create something that could worship and adore them, did the land appear. With the appearance of the land, next came the animals that inhabit the land. In both stories, animals were created prior to humans. The gods/God still needed some kind of being to worship them however, and the animals were incapable of doing so. This is what led to the creation of humans. In both situations, after they were created, humans were given power to kill and eat the animals that were on the Earth with them. The common denominator for the two creation epics was the reasoning for why the gods wanted human beings to inhabit the world …show more content…
The gods in the Quiche story first tried to create humans out of mud, but they found that these creatures could not stand nor think, and therefore could not worship them like they wanted. Then they made a second attempt, they created wooden figures that were similar to men, in the way that they looked like men in appearance and could also talk, but they had no souls or minds and could not worship the gods. This was in contrast to the method used by the Hebrew God, who simply created man to be like him. Something else that was specific to the Hebrew book was that mankind started out with just one man, who God then used to create a woman, and together they are the supreme parents of all humans on Earth. In such ways, this book went into much greater detail about the beginning of man than the Popol Vuh, or at least went into greater detail about human individuals, rather than