Thompson's creation of the World

Lucy Thompson's story of the creation of the world was very interesting in that God created man and woman pure, but also created sin. Why would God just create the experience of sin as it happened with the snake? In comparison to my own religious ideology, sin was just brought upon to them, not something made from the humans or another naturally sinful thing. There seems to be no purpose of the creation of people other than to "marry and bring forth children" (71). This sparks interesting thoughts of indigenous living. Did they know what they served for as individuals of a simple world?

Blog title and Popol Vuh

I chose to title my blog "behold the cities of gold" because it relates to part of my ancestry. Being of mixed heritage, part of my family has origins in Mexico City. In the present day, it is difficult to distinguish if you have ancestry from many cultural groups of the native Indians of mesoamerica of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, but Mexico city is the present city of what used to be the capital of the Aztec empire. So for purposes of choosing a title, the maker's of gold is what some historians believed the Spanish called the Aztec Indians, and I chose it to make reference to part of my cultural heritage. The NAS course looked at Popol Vuh, which is the book if the creation of people from the Mayans, who were close relatives to the Aztecs.

In thinking of the writing assisgnment for next week, I think I am choosing to stay with the Popol Vuh. An interesting theme I find which s is helping me to start my draft is the idea of light and darkness. It was pointed out in class the references in the text about darkness and it raised questions because the creation of the sun and moon had yet to happen. In Christianity, light and dark can refer to good and evil. An example relating the good/evil with light/darkness is found in book two with the trickery the brothers played on the lord's of the "underworld." This shows some prevailance of good over evil which raises my thoughts that Mayans may have shared many beliefs to my own religious ideology.