Inuit Creation Myth Research Paper

Throughout history there has always been an idea of a divine creator; groups such as the Mayans, the Inuit’s, and the Colonial Americans are some of those group who had some different belief on this idea. For the Mayans it was in their Mayan Creation Myth, For the Inuit’s it was in their Inuit Creation Myth, and lastly for the Colonial Americans, it was in the Mayflower Compact in which they stated their Beliefs about the divine creation of the world. The Mayans believed the two gods Tepeu and Gucumatz came together to create the world these gods respected their values on the idea that mankind was created imperfect. The Inuit’s had the belief that a Raven god was the creator the raven reflect their belief that man should be never given too much power. The Colonial Americans believe in the idea that there was a God and that with their belief they should advance the Christian faith.

But, in the Mayan Myth, they describe their creator to not just be one person but two divine creators. Still, they both had the idea of bird-like divine creators.

This quote pulled from the excerpt of the Mayan Myth “The Maker and the Feathered Spirit thought for a long time about how they should make the race of men they wanted. There seemed to be no perfect material to build them.” This quote from the Mayan myth was pulled to show how that man was created with the idea that we are imperfect. The Colonial Americans saw a different view on this idea they thought the divine creator God made Man so that they would advance the Christian faith among