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15 09, 2017

What’s the Enuma Elish? West Asian religion

By |2019-09-04T07:29:46-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on What’s the Enuma Elish? West Asian religion

Clay tablets with cuneiform writing of the Enuma Elish Story of Creation By about the time of Hammurabi, about 1700 BC, people in the Babylonian Empire were beginning to write down this story about [...]

10 08, 2017

Navajo creation myth – Native American religion

By |2018-04-09T23:07:31-07:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, Religion|Comments Off on Navajo creation myth – Native American religion

Lake Isabelle, Colorado People didn't always live here, where they live now. First they walked through four different worlds. These other worlds were inside the earth. It was dark there. [...]

10 08, 2017

Inuit creation myth – Native American religion

By |2019-09-22T07:39:36-07:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, Religion|Comments Off on Inuit creation myth – Native American religion

Inuit creation story: An Inuit carving of a bird Sedna is born First there were giants. The giants lived on the land and ate plants that they gathered. One day, when [...]

10 08, 2017

Native American religion – Early North America

By |2018-04-12T08:53:20-07:00August 10th, 2017|Native American, Religion|Comments Off on Native American religion – Early North America

Navajo dancers There were many different groups of people living in North America. They spoke different languages. They had different kinds of houses and clothes. But they still all had some religious ideas in common. For [...]

10 08, 2017

Cherokee creation myth – Native American religion

By |2018-04-07T17:05:43-07:00August 10th, 2017|Literature, Native American, Religion|Comments Off on Cherokee creation myth – Native American religion

The Atlantic ocean Long ago, the earth was just a big island, floating in a bigger ocean. The earth was hanging from four cords coming down from the sky, which was made of [...]

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