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Indian Myths to Catholic Beliefs
No matter how great the difference is in a religion or culture their creation stories all share
common fundamentals. All cultures wonder where they came from and what civilization was like
before they came. All religions also credit a higher power or superior being to the beginning of
creation. No matter how different or far fetched different cultures' creation stories sound to
different people they all share similar characteristics.
This first creation story, The Navajo Origin Legend, by the Navajo tribe is the most
unlike the Genesis creation story. The Navajos believed in four gods, White Body, Blue Body,
Yellow Body, and Black Body oppose to Catholics who believe in one. Anther main difference is
what the humans were made out of. Navajos believed the four gods placed corn, yellow and
white, on the ground while the four gods created wind to blow over the corn. The white...
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