Nearly every human culture has its myths and legends, those stories tell of how man became to be, why the world acts as it does, and why humanity is here. Why is it that man is so concerned about his creation? Well that is simple, man is a being of knowledge and curiosity, naturally as humans we such the unknown, thus what's more unknown to us then are own existence. In order to explain the phmoninoms of the natural world humans theorize ideas and make their gods and myths which create and manipulate this world. Every today in modern society people live under the belief of a god and dictate life according to the gods rules. I'm not trying to say that god is a myth but rather just i am just giving a example of how modern beliefs of our creation are so similar to that of the creation stories made by cultures round the world since the start of mankind.
Take the Maori and Australian Aboriginals creation stories for example, just like todays bible the stories focus on the family, struggles within life, and how from nothingness came the world. The Maori stories are mostly about the family and the role each part of the family plays in the creation of the world, like how the mother is god of the night, this shows off how concerned the Maori people must have been about the family and what each person in a family could represent and how each should act.The Australian aborigine stories too foucos on the family, but this time the mother was the god of the sun. Too different stories but both have one main focus and that is family and how the family reacts with itself. Because of this stricking similarity one can conculd that both societies focus on family values and in some ways were very a like in life style. Just like in todays creation stories the family to the aborigines is the most important and main focus of base value.
Now dont get me wrong their are plenty of differences between the two aborigines and todays life but to see the base similarites gives some view into the human mind set. All stroies may focus on the family at some point but this does not mean every story is the same. The Maori people of New Zealand for instants explains how voilence seprated nearly the entire god family, while the Australian aborigine story tells the story of the children of the gods coming together to spilt apart their parents. Both tell the story of the family and even how disagreement can spilt a family but the austalian story has the gods children untied together for a cause as aposed to the New Zealand story has voilence only something that separtes people.Clearly the two cultures share the same values but through this example one can see how one culture thinks differently about the actions of violence as opposed to the other.
Just because the old stories of past cultures may seem compltly ingorant to the new world we now know does not mean they should simply dismissed. As stated before the stories of old are very similar to what some believe now. Just as the two cultures stories say the eternal problems of man is his relationship with his family and his volient nature. Though science can tell us the sky is blue, science can not tell us why the sky exsistence and why humans wish so bad to float in its vastness. A myth however can tell us why we exsistnece why we pretend to have wings. This is the importance of the pass, it gives humans insight on their minds, the old stories can address problems that are impossible to even ask and that is the magic behind the old myths and the new stories of today.
Human life exisit that is simply the truth. No matter which story you choice to believe weither you enbrace science, religion, or both the fact is, we are. I myself do not believe in any one story rather chose to make my own story but just like very other stories of old or new i think of we humanity is here and what vaules are the best. For me as an idvivual to worry about the next life or the life before is simply a waste of time, the past is already done and the furtune is what one makes of it. Thus I live my life by my own creation story and take from every stroy i read to from my own and learn from every experience.
Take the Maori and Australian Aboriginals creation stories for example, just like todays bible the stories focus on the family, struggles within life, and how from nothingness came the world. The Maori stories are mostly about the family and the role each part of the family plays in the creation of the world, like how the mother is god of the night, this shows off how concerned the Maori people must have been about the family and what each person in a family could represent and how each should act.The Australian aborigine stories too foucos on the family, but this time the mother was the god of the sun. Too different stories but both have one main focus and that is family and how the family reacts with itself. Because of this stricking similarity one can conculd that both societies focus on family values and in some ways were very a like in life style. Just like in todays creation stories the family to the aborigines is the most important and main focus of base value.
Now dont get me wrong their are plenty of differences between the two aborigines and todays life but to see the base similarites gives some view into the human mind set. All stroies may focus on the family at some point but this does not mean every story is the same. The Maori people of New Zealand for instants explains how voilence seprated nearly the entire god family, while the Australian aborigine story tells the story of the children of the gods coming together to spilt apart their parents. Both tell the story of the family and even how disagreement can spilt a family but the austalian story has the gods children untied together for a cause as aposed to the New Zealand story has voilence only something that separtes people.Clearly the two cultures share the same values but through this example one can see how one culture thinks differently about the actions of violence as opposed to the other.
Just because the old stories of past cultures may seem compltly ingorant to the new world we now know does not mean they should simply dismissed. As stated before the stories of old are very similar to what some believe now. Just as the two cultures stories say the eternal problems of man is his relationship with his family and his volient nature. Though science can tell us the sky is blue, science can not tell us why the sky exsistence and why humans wish so bad to float in its vastness. A myth however can tell us why we exsistnece why we pretend to have wings. This is the importance of the pass, it gives humans insight on their minds, the old stories can address problems that are impossible to even ask and that is the magic behind the old myths and the new stories of today.
Human life exisit that is simply the truth. No matter which story you choice to believe weither you enbrace science, religion, or both the fact is, we are. I myself do not believe in any one story rather chose to make my own story but just like very other stories of old or new i think of we humanity is here and what vaules are the best. For me as an idvivual to worry about the next life or the life before is simply a waste of time, the past is already done and the furtune is what one makes of it. Thus I live my life by my own creation story and take from every stroy i read to from my own and learn from every experience.
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