Sunday, October 18, 2009
Early Creation Stories Response
I believe that neither story was meant to be taken as based on real facts. Yes, I was raised as a Christian and therefore know of the story of Genesis and believe that god created it all but a strong part of me thinks that these stories were just created to explain the unexplained. This would mean that the Navajo story was made to also explain why did all of a sudden evil start to inhabit the earth and how did the Navajo people end up in this world to begin with. For this reason I do hold the Navajo story to a lower extent that the Genesis story because I think it fulfilled it's duty. I just think that the Navajo story for many people today would seem to involve more of a "fantasy" world than the creation story Genesis and is less believable.
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I agree with you that the stories seem to be created to explain the unexplained. They are able to answer why we have evil or how we came about existing, things that science can not. However, I disagree that they were not meant to be taken as based on real facts. They seem to be preached by the church as the truth, and many people do think they are the truth. So do you think that whoever made the stories did not want them taken to heart?
ReplyDeleteKia, I thought it interesting you thought humanity escaping from a hole in the sky far fetched. If you think about it, we currently have a hole in the sky (in the ozone layer) and we fly through it regularly on our way to space. If we ever start to populate other planets, won't the Navajo story suddenly look pretty forward thinking?
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