What is the main idea?please see details?

Question

In many Native American and Asian mythologies there is no specific creator god or act of creation, instead the world is said to have formed out of chaos, and the development of life is said to be a product of some spirit force. This spirit force is often said in these belief systems to be ever-present and continually acting. Native American mythology generally presents humans and animals as being related and having common ancestry. Many different Native American cultures discovered and interpreted fossils and integrated the knowledge of fossils into their origin mythology

Answer 1

God puts in every man the desire to know Him.

Answer 2

You seem to have just described the main idea, actually. I haven't studied the subject as much as I'd like . . . but it sounds just like every other belief out there. Christians believe God (a spirit force) created the universe out of a void (chaos). In science, there is the big bang theory (same thing). I'm sure if you look at the other religions, they'll support something similar as well.

Again looking to science, everything is made up of the same thing at its base -- elements, atoms, whatever. (I'm not very good at science.) In fact, the human body has the same composition as stars do. An animal's body (esp. mammals) has a similar composition, I'm sure. So while ancient cultures may or may not have understood science to that extent, they probably recognized that they came from the same place. That would make them related, right?

As to the fossils, if you found a giant bone somewhere, you would know it came from a giant creature. What the creature was might be anybody's guess. (If you found a bone from a domestic animal other than the skull, you likely wouldn't recognize it -- cat, dog, fox, wolf . . . all very similar looking I think.)

Most religion is based on history . . . however, at the time it was written, most people didn't have a broad enough education to understand everything that was going on. Makes it hard to interpret . . . .

Answer 3

This thinking is also at the basis of much eastern thought, especially Taoism and its later development as Chinese Buddhism.

The idea a a creative and a receptive force finds an analog in modern theoretical physics, with the notion of black holes on the one hand being a final collapse of matter and energy, and quasars being a fountain of energy and matter.

When we read many deep thinkers from all traditions we see that these ideas can be embraced without resorting to the idea of a personified godhead. It is not to say there may not be a higher consciousness or being in the picture, but rather that the simplified notion of a God who is male and having something like human form is a bit of a crutch for weaker minds. If there is a god, why do we think he would have a form or state we can recognize? (And before some Christian goes and tells me The Book says God looks like a man, I will remind you that in the underlying scriptures of the old Testament and the Torah which predates it, God is ineffable, unknowable and even unnameable.)

I appreciate your question. The connection between American Indians and China is just beginning to be understood more widely.

Answer 4

A Buddhist monk walks up to a hot dog vendor and says
"Make me one with everything" and hands him a $20 bill.
After receiving the slavered bun, the monk stands there a long time waiting and finally the vendor says
"Change must come from within!"
GET IT? OR
Aleister Crowley Had a parable which he claimed explained western religion and/or civilization:
A soldier found himself on a long train ride in a compartment also occupied by a middle-aged gentleman with a perforated box on his lap. The soldier tried to strike up a conversation by asking
"Excuse me sir, but what do you have it that box?"
"It is a bit presumptuous of you to ask young man but there's no harm in telling you, it's a mongoose" said the gent
"Isn't that a rather exotic pet for England?"
" It is not so much as a pet but as a cure"
"A cure?"
"Well as a perfect stranger I imagine I can divulge a family secret. You do not know me and I doubt we will meet again. My younger brother is a bit of a wastrel and the black sheep of the family. He's taken to gambling and whoring and both drinking heavily and taking drugs. It seems he's developed Delirium Tremens, he imagines he sees poisonous snakes everywhere. So I am bringing the mongoose to help him."
"But sir, Don't you realize these snakes are imaginary?"
"So is the mongoose."

OK? Now do you get it.

Answer 5

Many Native American peoples also believed in the Great Spirit.

Answer 6

Actually, the Chickasaws and Choctaws believe in a Great Spirit who created everything known to them as Aba-banili. (unsure of sp.)

Answer 7

THE MAIN IDEA IS THAT THERE ARE MANY BELIEFS WHEN IT COMES TO CREATION.

Answer 8

What the first guy said.

Answer 9

The main idea of that is this:

Denying the One true Creator

Answer 10

its in the first sentence but there IS DEFINITELY GOD...PLEASE DO your own work..