Judeo-Christian and Navajo Emergence Beliefs

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Prof. Alice Nash
Hist 170
September 15, 2017
Judeo-Christian and Navajo Emergence Beliefs
Despite the differences in the creation myths around the world, perhaps one of the thematic similarities between them is a relationship that exist between man and his creator, as well as man and the other beings created. In most of these cases, the creator is usually regarded as a higher (if not highest) being. Aside from this most of them would also emphasize the love that the creator has for the humans that it created, while the humans would either reciprocate this love back or become abusive and destroy every other thing that has been created. However, in contrast to the story of the Judeo-Christian and the Navajos it could be said that the main similarity only exist between the relationship of the higher being and its creations with humans, while their differences lies in who created whom. In the book of Genesis, man was created by God in his own image, while woman was created from the likes of man (The Holy Bible: King James Version). In contrast to the Navajo emergence version, it was stated that both the first man and woman was already in existence, together with the higher being Begochiddy and 2 other entities. Nonetheless, both of these stories have shown that the higher being possess a deep love and understanding towards the humans, thus giving them sustenance and everything that they need so that they could have a better life. In the book of Genesis, thi...