Mayans Vs Inuits

There are many different cultures around the world and each culture has their own idea of how Earth and man came about. Most cultures believe in some form of “higher being”, however, they all have different ideas of who that higher being is. The three cultures that are being focused on right now are the Colonial Americans, the Mayans, and the Inuits. Each culture has generally the same idea; that there is one or two people that created everything, but they each also have a lot of differences in how they think everything was created. Each creation myth has different ideas about the creator or “higher being”. In the Mayan culture, there are two creators in their version of the story. There is Tepeu the Maker and Gucumatz the Feathered Spirit, it is said that they both glittered with brilliant blue and green feathers. The Inuits only believe that there was one creator, Raven. He had the powers of a man and a bird and he could change from one to

They created things in different orders and for different reasons. In the Inuit creation myth, everything was created as it was needed and as Raven saw fit. He created the Earth and plants to fill it and the creation of Man was an accident. He then created animals for Man to eat and bears for Man to fear. In the Mayan creation myth, everything was created practically at once, everything they thought came into being. They created the Earth and the light and the plants and then decided that they needed beings to worship them. They created animals but the animals couldn’t worship them the way they wanted. The first time they tried to create Man, they weren’t suitable so they destroyed them and tried again. They did this twice before finding a race of Man that was suitable. The Old Testament says that there was nothing in the beginning and each day, God created something new. He created the Heavens and the Earth on the first day and the light on the second and so