The Navajo Creation Story is quite different than the account we have in Genesis. According to the Navajos, the world where people first lived was deep within the world we inhabit now. It had no sun or moon, and contained only dim clouds, which moved to tell the hours. Life began peacefully, but then lust and envy took hold. The people become violent. The Navajo fled, climbing through a hole in the sky to an above world. This world also began peacefully, but the same evils happened. This process repeated itself until finally the first man and woman emerged on the present earth. The first man filled the world with the aid of a sacred bundle of medicine, transforming different items into mountains, animals, hours, and so on. Everything in this new world was balanced: four directions, four seasons, four basic colors of black, blue, amber, and white. An essential harmony, called hozho, then prevailed.
Is this creation story any more or less likely to be true than the creation story we find in Genesis?
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The Navajo creation story overall seem alot more supersitious to me than the Genesis creation story. if i had to pick a story that i had to give credibility to it would probably be the genesis creation story. I would go with genesis probably because its engraved in my mind and it make more sense to me. I can relate the characteristics of Adam and Eve back to modern day humans.
ReplyDeleteHowever the Navajo creation story has the total possibility of being true. Its harder to believe though, for me, because nothing ever happens like that now. we never hear or see anything of the like in the navajo story. The dark clouds and the world within ours seems highly improbable.
Then why is genesis not seen as supersitious to me? i guess i was raised to believe that god wasnt a supersition and that he was real. Which is actually a superstition.... i could never actually think that. I could say that if i knew more about the navajo religon and culture outside of their creation story and raised on their beliefs, i would probably be saying that i believe in the Navajo story right now.
When i say "i could never actually think of that" i mean that i could never really picture God as being real. I tried but i couldnt.
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