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The diversity of creation stories
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Murguia, Alejandro
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
12-07-2005
In the current debate regarding the teaching of the biblical creation model
versus the Darwinian model of human origins, we should also include other
creation stories, particularly those from the Western Hemisphere.
Indigenous creation stories, in other words. One in particular I am
familiar with -- a version of genesis that explains my world and how people
were created here in this continent.
The creation story of the Quiche' Maya of Guatemala is known as the Popol
Vuh, a sacred pre-Hispanic text. This version of the origins of ...
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