Compare & Contrast

 

 

 

 

ABORIGINAL DREAMING

 

 

CHINESE MYTHS & CREATION STORIES

Begin with the theme of birth

 

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Include morals to the story

 

s

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Different Versions of story according to what part of country you come from

d

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Include Gods as main characters

 

d

Animals are symbolic

 

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Beliefs(stories) govern rules and society and individual choices in life

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s

Begins with the earth

 

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Earth retrieved from water

 

 

 

Includes Romance

 

d

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Bad behaviour/Broken Rules is punished
(stories warn against sin)

s

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Believe in self sacrifice

 

 

d

Are believed to be historical accounts of true events.

s

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By looking at the two different culures and comparing the similarities and differences between their creation sotries two completly different cultures can begin to look similar. By looking at this graph it is clear that their are alot more similarities rather than differences. this is dues to all creation stories having common elements gods, animals as sacred and how the world came to be. By looking more into the feature that are apparent in creation stories you can see the similarities more clearly when trying to complare two different cultures. Both do have different beliefs and different story but they have common elements within them that is shown in the graph.

Even though creation stories have been around for thousands of years they have the common elements of alot of stories seen today in book shops such as humour, romance, morals, fantasy elements such as hero's, gods, and fairies. If creation stories can be believed by cultures as to why we exist in the world but then have fanstastical elements why dont people doubt them. We read fantasy novels today and know they are made up and are'nt real but according to the world of cultures and creation stories these characters that are in fantasy novels did at one stage exist. People who believe in these creation myths dont doubt them even though there is no proof, I guess that is what we call faith.