The world on the turtle's back

The world on the turtle's back 

 Compare and contrast

similarities                                        

  • Both stories talk about the creation of the world
  • Both believe in a supreme being or beings.
  • both stories have a tree (The World on the Turtle’s Back, there is the Great Tree, and in Genesis, there is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil)
  • both stories have a man and a women
  • both stories have animals 
  • both stories have a women who violate the rules
  • both stories have a heaven 
Diferences
  • In genesis there is only one God and in the world on the turtles back there is more than 1
  • One is from the Bible and the other is a myth
  • Genesis start with no evil and in the turtle's back story there is already evil
  • In the world on the turtle's back both man and animals are independent but in Genesis man have a kind of power over the animals 
  • At the begining of Genesis, there was already balance and in the world on the turtle's back the balance of the world was the twins and they appear at the middle of the story not at the beginning 
  • In Genesis the women violates the rules because of the snake and in the turtle's back story the women violates the rules because she was hungry and pregnant 





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