Originally Posted by
whitey
Your putting words in my mouth. I never said anything like that. I was asking what you believed. Did you get insulted because I lumped native american creation theories and the Greek gods like Zeus? Like you find the greek creation theory ubsurd? Or did you just infer because I believe in natural selection that I must think Native Americans are primitive cave people? Because I said neither. You think im some dumb white guy who looks down on others because they arent white?
Native Americans were smart people in terms of being able to live off the land, build things, survive ect. I dont think anyone who lives in a concreteless and metaless society are primative cave people, everyone just didnt have access to the raw materials, domesticable animals, suitable farmland, domesticable crops, good weather. They have to be even smarter to be able to survive on what they have.
Now that we got that out of the way, what makes your ancestors come from a different place than mine?
And here is an example of what im talking about. The creation theory of the Aztecs...
Aztec
The mother of the Aztec creation story was called Coatlique (the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes). She was created in the image of the unknown, decorated with skulls, snakes, and lacerated hands. There are no cracks in her body and she is a perfect monolith (a totality of intensity and self-containment, yet her features were square and decapitated). Coatlique was first impregnated by an obsidian knife and gave birth to Coyolxanuhqui, goddess of the moon, and to a group of male offspring, who became the stars. Then one day Coatlique found a ball of feathers, which she tucked into her bosom. When she looked for it later, it was gone, at which time she realized that she was again pregnant. Her children, the moon and stars did not believe her story. Ashamed of their mother, they resolved to kill her. A goddess could only give birth once, to the original litter of divinity and no more. During the time that they were plotting her demise, Coatlique gave birth to the fiery god of war, Huitzilopochtli. With the help of a fire serpent, he destroyed his brothers and sister, murdering them in a rage. He beheaded Coyolxauhqui and threw her body into a deep gorge in a mountain, where it lies dismembered forever. The natural cosmos of the Indians was born of catastrophe. The heavens literally crumbled to pieces. The earth mother fell and was fertilized, while her children were torn apart by fratricide and then scattered and disjointed throughout the universe.
I have more of other peoples/cultures, if need be. But your saying something like that, is where humanity came from?