Fenel Lavon, there is something you need to understand about both of these stories. They are either Creation stories, or myths, but when you research into the text, they are different. Myths can serve many purposes and knowledge. An Anthropologist, named Joseph Campbell, suggested “without myths present in societies, many of the problems faced by these societies in question, would become apparent”.
The Creation story in Genesis 1:1-2:3, and the Navaho Creation Story: Dine Bahane, determines the likenesses, and differences between the two. First compare the worldviews of the Navaho, and Judeo-Christians. A worldview is the way societies observe and interpret their reality. Similar to myths, an individual’s worldview can help them understand how the world…show more content… Both of the gods in the stories wanted to create human beings in their own image. The biggest differences between the two stories is that the Navaho Story is an Emergence myth which means, that the world started in the core of the Earth, and progressed up, layer after layer, to finally “emerge” to the outer, and final layer of the earth. In Genesis, there is only one God, where in the Navaho Creation Story, there are four. In Genesis, God starts off with a blank canvas, and creates the world for the very first time. In Dine Bahane, the world already existed, and there were insect people, but the four gods had a desire to create more intelligent life in their image. Also, in Genesis, God created the Earth in six days, and rested on the seventh, where in Dine Bahane; the four gods visited the earth on four separate occasions, and returned twelve days later to complete the ritual of creating a man, and a woman. These are just the major differences between the two stories when you do a bit of research, but I hope you are able to understand how different these stories are Fenel