A Comparison Of Three American Myths

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Many year ago, people transmission to each other many stories about the God and how the earth created. Those transmission are now called a myth. Like Alan Watts said, “The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it aliens.” The three famous myths of the American are The Earth on Turtle’s Back, When Grizzlies Walked Upright, and The Navajo Origin Legend. What is the similarities and differences in the cultural attitudes expressed in these myths? To begin with, the similarities in Turtle’s Back, Grizzlies, and the Navajo is that the patterns in these myths are the Spirit, the God, and the Animal. Also those myths are

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