Myths of Cultures

1.I think every culture creates some sort of myth or story so that they can have history and stories from when they were living to pass down to the next generation. Stories of ancestors and ancient people are always entertaining and people also want to have evidence that they were alive during this time period. This reveals that humans are always pushing to explain everything that they have accomplished and always looking for some kind of information and are wiling to pass it down. Humans attempt to explain there origins because they know that people out there are always looking for the truth and always want to know where they come from. These myths still exist everywhere today in the world, in the form of people simply telling others about there lives and things they can pass on.
2. The two stories differ as one is clearly lighter than the other. The Australian Aborigine was focused on the sun and mother nature, and were most likely focused around nature. Opposite to that, the Maori were based on darkness in the tone of death, and they focused more on the word of others. They both value gods and offspring as it stated in both stories, but are clearly different based on what I stated earlier. Australian Aborigine are light, Maori are dark.
3. These civilizations are similar in the fact that they both worship gods. They also both are for offspring and separation of parents. They believe that humans are superior and highly believe in large families. However, the Aborigine are focused around the sun and animals, also known as mother nature. They believe that the gods abandoned them and also the parents separate by choice. For the Maori, there civilization is darker in the tone of death, and the humans try to split gods. They are much darker compared to the Aborigine.
4. The main message that these stories are trying to send is simply that we must respect mother nature, as one today would say, "go green". The aborigine think that we should focus on the earth and mother nature as a whole to keep it going, as do the Maori. That is the main message the stories are creating and the most important one.
5. Although I may not be the most religious person out there, and I may not go to church every sunday, my "creation" story still derives from what I have learned from my religion. After going through religious education classes I received a perspective from the church on how we were created and it has simply stuck with me throughout my life. No one can do anything to alter that opinion, even if it is proven scientifically through evolution, because it is what I have grown up believing.

Native Maori people of New Zealand

One of the main things the Aborigine were focused on, the sun