Subject: Religious Stories

Posted by Bill Ellis on 7/13/2005
In Reply To:Religious Stories Posted by sharada on 7/12/2005

Message:

there are thousands of creation stories. Many one websites you can find
by googling "creation stories." These are fun stories for children.

The Inuit believed that a a giant girl slashed the fingers of other giants; \the fingers fell in the ocean and became fish and animals.
The Norsemen believed that we were created by a giant cow they worshipped.
The Jew' creation story was of a man-like god who created the world for the use of man. And created a hiearchy of women, children, other races, animals, plants and the earth each for the use of the one's above in the "chain of being."
Pagan believed that the earth sat on the back of 4 turtles.
The Tulsa's believed that a beattle sent to explore the ocean's bottom stirred up the mud that formed the earth. And that the animals attached the sky with 4 strings.
The Egytians believed that in the beginning there was only water, the Nile, and it formed the land an the people.
The Hopi thought that successive worlds are created, each more difficult than the preceding. Yoruba people of Nigeria say that the Sky God's son and a special five-toed chicken, helped create dry land by spreading the dirt around with his feet. Science tells us that in the beginning there was a Big Bang from whch evolved energy, mass, atoms, molecules, cells, lifeforms, and humans with brains able to figure it all out.

Each of these creation stories are religious and help people "understand" where the came from and why.

Bill Ellis