Compare and Contrast Native American Myths to African American Myths

The creation myths of African Civilizations and the Native American Civilizations are similar in many ways, but yet so different in others. In both civilizations the people have a different perspective on the afterlife and death. The myths both are interesting to study because of the oral tradition that has occurred throughout all of the groups of people and civilizations.
The creation myths of the two civilizations follow the same pattern in mostly all of the stories in both civilizations. African myths show a main theme of everybody starting out in the skies above (both humans and gods). The two are equal. Changes occur and world’s are made/changed due to the fa...