These stories all share similarities with there being light representing good and there being darkness representing bad. This image symbolizes the positive things happening in the process of creating earth and the negative. The left side of the picture represents the good things being created and the dark side of the world on the right. On the right side of the image there is simply no life, however the left side has a beautiful clear sky giving the earth some light. In the Biblical story of creation God created light for the daytime and darkness to signify night. The earth was empty and dark before God started his day by day creation. He created the sun, moon, and stars to lighten the world and to separate day from night. In the Iroquois creation there was a woman who gave birth to an evil twin and a good twin. The evil mind symbolizes the right side of the picture and the good mind symbolizes the left. The bad mind and the good mind fight for full responsibility of creating rights. The good mind defeated the bad mind after two days of fighting and alone became the creator of the earth. In the Pima stories Juhwertamahkai is the creator and represents the lightened side of the image while the problems he runs in to simplify the dark side. He tries and tries to successfully make humans but fails a total of three times. His fourth time was a success and the earth was created.
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