Creation Stories

1. People have the fear of the unknown, I feel that since the natives of both countries did not know how "they" were created or formed, they feared it. In order to cope with this fear they began getting creative and made up myths or stories to pass down to their children. The idea of a myth helps tell the story of who they are and what there morals are. Even though scientists might have the answer to the myths, it’s easier for those people to keep retelling their children the myths that were once created. Children are to young to comprehend what the real scientific theory is, so parents tell them the bed time story of their myth.

2. Each story has their own values that are represented with different characters or symbols. The aborigines value animals and the wild life. They feel that the sun is the creation of life. The sun is the beauty that presents a happy life to them. On the other hand the Mauri natives calue overcoming conflicts. They feel that once you once come a conflict your life with be easier. Both stories are nature based and each value male dominance. This coincides with our economy today, many people feel that males dominate over woman. Love and companionship as well helped create what they now call New Zealand and Australia. In the Aborigine creation story the mother call to the creatures and tells them " enjoy the wealth of the earth and to live peacefully with one another." This proves that there creation story was made to provoke peace. This helps show the Australian morals when it comes to world peace.

3. Australian aborigine’s creation story discussed the world starting with light and they wanted to overcome fear. In the story the mother was afraid of the father which symbolizes male dominance. In both New Zealand stories they discuss how they want to overcome conflict which one can infer that there towns were suffering from conflict at the time. Each story was based on nature and the creation of the earth was from either the moon or sun. Which suggests they idolize the sun and moon as gods.

4. Each myth suggests that their is always conflict between families which is unavoidable. One can infer that the creation stories give the image of caring people, and if you care about the people in your life you can over come any difficult situation. Jealousy is also a present emotion in all the creation stories. This goes to show that jealousy is a common emotion that people feel, and its something you need to learn to control.

5.) I don't necessarily believe in a creation story. There is always the debate between the theory of evolution and the belief in a higher power. Personally I believe in evolution due to the fact that there is scientific evidence to evolution being a true statement. But on the other hand i think its intriging to look at it from the other perspective, science is sort of new to our world, and creation stories and a higher power has been around for longer then people can tell stories for. There are many more people who believe in a higher power rather then in the theory of evolution.Going with along what I said early, I think people have the fear of the unknown and death is unknown. People look to "god" for something to look forward too on the otherside when they pass away.

Timelines- Comparing the Countries.

America and Australia have histories that are alike due to Great Britain for establishing colonies in each country. During the late 1600’s the British were traveling to American shores, the 13 original colonies actually appalled the British towering over them. This also coincides when Australia was claimed by Britain in 1776 and six colonies were developed there. While the American Colonies were claimed earlier this allowed them to have more time to grow and industrialize and create a strong government. Unlike Australia, Australia was claimed later on by Britain which means it didn’t have as much time as the American colonies to industrialize. Australia and America both have similarities when it comes down to the gold rush. America’s gold rush began in 1848 while in the 1850’s the Australian gold rush began. A man by the name Edward Hargraves was unsuccessful in the gold rush in the Americas in California so he flew back to Sydney. This rush brought all sorts of people. (www.patricktaylor.com/australian-gold-rush)

New Zealand was discovered by a man named James Cook, his idea was to pave the way for more Europeans to make the journey to the newly discovered island. His journals inspired other Europeans to travel to this island. James Cook was like Christopher Columbus, many viewed him as a man who wanted what was best for the Native Americans that were present in The United States, but no one truly knew he was a devious man. James cook used his wits to trick the Maori tribes into signing a peace treaty with the Europeans in search of protection. In reality he just wanted to take the lands of the natives. Like America new Zealand had a battle between the natives and the immigrants over the land. The natives felt that they were being treated unfairly.  New Zealand can also be related back to America’s and Australia’s gold rush. New Zealand’s occurred later on, it happened in the 1860’s in a town called Tuepeka. (http://history-nz.org/)

            In the early twentieth century both countries were enthusiastic members of the British Empire, they had high nationalism. While both countries were dedicated to the British Empire both countries ended up sending soldiers into the Boer War, World War I and world war II. World War II was the turning point with both countries they realized that they couldn’t rely on Britain for protection. These ideas lead to both countries wanting to become closer with the united states of American. Both countries made a packed to defend one another if an enemy were to attack, this became known as the Anzus. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_%E2%80%93_New_Zealand_relations)

            Each country has different similarities that all sort of correspond with one another. One of the major similarities is that all the countries had natives living there before it was “discovered”. In Australia there were the aborigines, in New Zealand there were the Maori and in America there were the Native Americans. In 1962 the Aborigines were recognized as citizens and were given the right to vote. In New Zealand in 1860 a decade of land wars broke out between the Maori and the British. ((http://www.backpack-newzealand.com/history.html). Each country faced there difficulties with the battles of natives verse immigrants.