Tiffany GarciaEnglish 48A
Iroquois/Pima Journal
December 6, 2009
December 6, 2009
“Stories about the creation of the world tell people who they are by telling them where they come from” (Norton 17)
Having different cultures the Iroquois and the Pimas would have their own versions of how they were first created.
Iroquois
Online Quote:
Other water creatures brought earth from the bottom of the sea to place on the back of Great Turtle, forming the Earth we know today. Some Indians still refer to North America as “Turtle Island.”
–Library of Congress
Having different cultures the Iroquois and the Pimas would have their own versions of how they were first created.
Iroquois
Online Quote:
Other water creatures brought earth from the bottom of the sea to place on the back of Great Turtle, forming the Earth we know today. Some Indians still refer to North America as “Turtle Island.”
–Library of Congress
Summary:
Iroquois Creation Story: A pregnant woman from the upper sky sinks down about to go into the great waters but a large turtle saves her and because he becomes land. The woman sits prepared to give birth to twins however one of the unborn infants is evil and becomes determined to leave his mother’s body from under her side arm. After the twins are born the mother dies. These twins live on creating thinks based on their personality. The good one created human life and other things to keep them alive whereas the bad one created things to jeopardize them. The bad one challenges the good one for control over the universe. They fight for two days until the good one won. The evil one would have control over humans after death.
Opinion:
It is completely natural to want to know how we humans came here. The woman just came out of the sky as the Iroquois cannot find an actual explanation for this beginning. Women are the only ones who can give birth so she has to be the first one here. There are good and bad things on this earth and someone good couldn’t have made human killers so there must be some evil creator. What better way to show his natural evil self than by acting stubborn and selfish and killing his mother most willingly. Good always wins in the end and so does the good twin, wouldn’t be right if it was the other way around, life would be worthless in the hands of evil. Evil is in control of the underworld, hell and so is the evil twin. They both win kingdoms to compromise their need of control.
Prima
Online Quote:
“people who favored stability, settlement, and peace and whose artistic traditions were long and rich. At the time that this story was collected, the Pima were particularly skilled in agriculture and in making sophisticated crafts.” -W.W. Norton
Summary:
The Pimas myth starts with Juhwertamahkai creating the earth then creates Nooee who is
meant to help him create life on earth but leaves instead. Juhwertamahkai creates water, moon, stars and sun. He then creates human life four times but destroys the first three because they unsatisfied him with their canibolism, young gray selves, smoking. The fourth group however is as it is now. The sun and moon’s coyote child is named Toehahvs, and the Seeurhuh become brothers with Noee and Juhwertamahkai. Seeurhuh saw himself as the older brother and is accepted to be so Seeurhuh created a man. This man would marry and have many children. His wives would die leaving his soon to be wife to worry about it. Seeurhuh sees a flood coming and builds a vessel. The other three brothers do similar thing to survive and when they see each other they fight over who is the eldest again. This time Juhwertamahkai tries to destroy them as well Seerhuh protects us from happening. There are diseases left with us causing deaths.
Opinion:
This story explains the birth of nature more than of human birth. Of course there would be no life without nature. “Practice makes perfect” practice creating humans makes them close to perfection. Juhwertamahkai didn’t practice enough. When he has a chance to fix us he doesn’t because he sees his creatures are suitable enough but not Seerhuh wants perfection so protects his humans. Seerhuh makes his Pimas strong though their enemy spoke first. I’m assuming their enemy is Juhwertamahkai’s humans. This could explain the natural enemies between tribes in real life as well.
Iroquois Creation Story: A pregnant woman from the upper sky sinks down about to go into the great waters but a large turtle saves her and because he becomes land. The woman sits prepared to give birth to twins however one of the unborn infants is evil and becomes determined to leave his mother’s body from under her side arm. After the twins are born the mother dies. These twins live on creating thinks based on their personality. The good one created human life and other things to keep them alive whereas the bad one created things to jeopardize them. The bad one challenges the good one for control over the universe. They fight for two days until the good one won. The evil one would have control over humans after death.
Opinion:
It is completely natural to want to know how we humans came here. The woman just came out of the sky as the Iroquois cannot find an actual explanation for this beginning. Women are the only ones who can give birth so she has to be the first one here. There are good and bad things on this earth and someone good couldn’t have made human killers so there must be some evil creator. What better way to show his natural evil self than by acting stubborn and selfish and killing his mother most willingly. Good always wins in the end and so does the good twin, wouldn’t be right if it was the other way around, life would be worthless in the hands of evil. Evil is in control of the underworld, hell and so is the evil twin. They both win kingdoms to compromise their need of control.
Prima
Online Quote:
“people who favored stability, settlement, and peace and whose artistic traditions were long and rich. At the time that this story was collected, the Pima were particularly skilled in agriculture and in making sophisticated crafts.” -W.W. Norton
Summary:
The Pimas myth starts with Juhwertamahkai creating the earth then creates Nooee who is
meant to help him create life on earth but leaves instead. Juhwertamahkai creates water, moon, stars and sun. He then creates human life four times but destroys the first three because they unsatisfied him with their canibolism, young gray selves, smoking. The fourth group however is as it is now. The sun and moon’s coyote child is named Toehahvs, and the Seeurhuh become brothers with Noee and Juhwertamahkai. Seeurhuh saw himself as the older brother and is accepted to be so Seeurhuh created a man. This man would marry and have many children. His wives would die leaving his soon to be wife to worry about it. Seeurhuh sees a flood coming and builds a vessel. The other three brothers do similar thing to survive and when they see each other they fight over who is the eldest again. This time Juhwertamahkai tries to destroy them as well Seerhuh protects us from happening. There are diseases left with us causing deaths.Opinion:
This story explains the birth of nature more than of human birth. Of course there would be no life without nature. “Practice makes perfect” practice creating humans makes them close to perfection. Juhwertamahkai didn’t practice enough. When he has a chance to fix us he doesn’t because he sees his creatures are suitable enough but not Seerhuh wants perfection so protects his humans. Seerhuh makes his Pimas strong though their enemy spoke first. I’m assuming their enemy is Juhwertamahkai’s humans. This could explain the natural enemies between tribes in real life as well.
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