World Creation
The story of world creation is viewed in various ways in virtually every society. “The Book of Genesis”, “the Epic of Gilgamesh”, and “The Beginning of the Skagit World” are three world creation epics, which display various similarities and differences in their stories. ... God is angry at the evil of his creation, man (CWT p. ... The creator of the world in this story is teamed up with three animals, a raven, a mink, and a coyote. ... The Genesis story, which is the first book of the Bible, reflects the Christians account of the creation of the world. ... The Gilgamesh story indicates the views of world creation in the eyes of the Mesopotamians. ... The Native Americans reveal their views in “The Beginning of the Skagit World”. They deem the creation as an ongoing process, a cycle of world change. ... The great flood in this story displays the idea of the cycle, and rebalances the world.