Adam & Eve

In the beginning, God is very kind to Adam and he creates Eve for him. He brings them to a garden like heaven, no pain. God then puts a beautiful apple tree in the middle of the garden but tells Adam and Eve not to eat it or else they would be in serious trouble or die. A serpent convinced Eve that she should eat it and give some to her husband. What God did really was very cruel because he wanted to taunt them into eating it. He was responsible for getting them to eat it because he wanted to punish them for doing something wrong. Since God had told them not to do it, it just made them want to do it a little bit more. He was trying to get the bad reaction from them and to not follow his directions Eve had to eat it. In the result of them eating it, the animals couldn't talk anymore. They were mad at God because he also gave them consequences too. But in general it was not Eve's fault, it was Gods for putting the tree there in the first place. God had done the wrong thing this time.

The Maynas and Gilgamesh

The Mayan flood is very similar and also different from the epic of Gilgamesh. The Mayan flood was about dwarfs and they way they saw the flood. The Epic of Gilgamesh was about Gilgamesh going to see Uta-napishti about how he can become immortal and that was when Uta-napishti tells Gilgamesh his story. The Gilgamesh story is different than the Mayan story because the Mayans had a Monotheistic religion and Gilgamesh had a Polytheistic. The Epic of Gilgamesh's flood only has one flood while the Mayans have three floods. The ways that they handled the situation when they were told about the flood was different. The Mayans put some stones in the pond and they sat on them and all of the dwarfs were destroyed. The way Uta-napishti handled the flood he was warned about the flood, he built a boat and brought his wife. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Mayan flood story are also alike in many ways. They are both warned about the flood and they each had floods. In both story's the God(s) had wanted to kill all go the people because in the Mayan, the population was growing, in Gilgamesh, the people were too noisy.

Source: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Maya

Welcome to my Blog

Welcome to my blog. I am a freshman at Roslyn High School. I like to sing and draw. During the summer I go to Eisner Camp in Massachusetts. This blog is an assignment for Freshman Humanities and I will be posting my writing and my assignments this year. I am very excited to post because I think that it will be very cool to hear what people have to say about my blog.