Daisy, Janna, and Curtis
Our group chose the Mayan Creation Story:
Characteristics found in this creation story:
Life began as two people, Tepeu and Gucumatz, sat together and thought about things. They first thought about the earth and it came into being, mountains and they come into form, trees, sky and animals. Tepu and Gucumatz wanted someone to worship and praise them so they made creatures out of clay. These creatures fell apart when wet so they made creatures out of wood. These were very troublesome people so the god. Sent a flood and wiped them out. This time when they remade the people, the mountain lion, coyote, parrot, and crow helped so they became their ancestors. Tepeu and Gucamatz wanted to be worshiped so they created “humans” making them the higher power. Because these beings misbehaved they were flooded out and destroyed saying that it is not ok to do badly. These creatures that they created worshiped them and praised them so they belonged.
Comparison and Contrast to the Christian Story:
This story is similar to the flood story in the Bible. In the Bible God destroyed the world, because the people where living in sin. The way that they are different is that the God didn’t recreate people; he put them on a big ship. They are also different in the fact that the people that God saved didn’t worship the animals as the people that Tepeu and Gucumatz created after they flooded the world.
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Group three did pretty good on their creation story. It was very interesting to me because it was similiar to the flood story in the Bible. That creation story was different that any other ones that I have heard before.
Of the Creation stories posted this is my favorite as it is more closely retlated to the bible. I think this group did a good job of relating the story.
This group did a good job relating the story. And like Krista said, it is interesting since it is similar to the flood story. Nice work
I think you guys did a great job. I, too, find it interesting how it is related to the Bible about the flood.
Group 3 did a very good job! I thought the flood part was neat and it really does relate to the bible the best of all of them.
This was my favorite story out of them all. It was very interesting. It relates to the Bible and I like that. Great job!!!
I enjoyed reading group three creation story. It remind me of the flood story in the Bible. Group three yall did a good job!
This group did a good job relating the story.it is interesting since it is similar to the flood story. good work
I think group 3 did a very good job on their discussion of the creation story. The story they chose was closely related to the bible and I enjoyed it.
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