Since its not Hunger Games, its not worth posting. But its 20 points so here we go.

This week our English class has been dicussing the various creation myths in Native American culture. Since there are so many different tribes, their myths are quite different but, in a few ways are the same.

One common theme I have seen thoughout the different cultures is the respect, and understanding of the four cardinal directions. The four elements have also been viewed by Native Americans as "life giving". It seems to me as if every culture we have studied, has taken various natual occurances from their area, and applied them in their own way in order to try and explain how they were made. Mainly the Navaho.

Some of the universal differences between the creation myths are their choice of who exactly created them. All the Native Americans seem to have a different god figure and explain that figure in different ways.

These myths have given me an insight as to how culturally different all these tribes really are. Before I read these myths, I knew there were different tribes, but I thought they were are the same in their beliefs, but that down't seem to be the case. Its also shown me just how creative and imaginative all these cultures were.

Overall, from what I can see, creation myths are a good way of figuring out a particualar culture's way of thinking and belief system, Native American of not. Its also been interesting learning more about our countrys oldest groups of people.


That's all for now, I may get around to some more Hunger Games stuff later.