Iroquois and Pina
The Iroquois and Pina were two Native American tribes. One common things that they had in common was that they had the same purpose of wanted to preserve their culture. People of Europe often wrote down the Native American cultures, since it was logical that they couldn’t. One story that they share though in a very different version, is on how the earth got started. Some factors of both stories aren’t very logical. One example is that the moon and sun felled in loved and they had a wolf as a baby. That is just not logical. Two objects can’t fall in love and less likely have an offspring that is so different from the original genetics. One aspect that the Pina story shows is ethos by Juhwertamahki. Juhwertamahki shows that he is a perfectionist since he is always killing the human race if it shows an imperfection. He desires a perfect world. Another way that he shows that he is a perfectionist is that when the sun, moon, or stars didn’t work, he will keep at it until everything went according to plan. How the Pina story appeals to pathos is also by Juhwertamahki. He is lonely and he doesn’t really have anything to keep him company. Thus he creates the earth and mankind to give him a place to rest and the humans to keep him company. The Iroquois story has also many illogical inferences. For one a turtle can’t propose an idea since it can’t speak or interact with other species but itself. Another thing a baby can’t survive without its mother, so the babies will have most likely died. Also a human mind can’t create the whole wide world such as animals and plants. It’s just very illogical. How the story applies to ethos was that the good mind wanted to do well for earth. It was just natural to him while the evil mind had the need to cause mishaps. The stories have similar things such as that the person or thing creating the earth is doing it for the basic of creating something new and good. But they are often faced with several obstacles that don’t want this task to take place. Their differences are that in the Pina there is only one person but in the other there are two. They also created the earth and human race in different methods. Another similarity that the story share is that there is always a taking animal. Both Native American tribes had different cultures, thus resulting is different stories. One thing that these two tribes had in common was that they wanted to conserve their heritage and culture. They were also taken over by European cultures. They culture is also written for them by the same cultures that conquer them. The reason that they have such different stories is because they were located in different regions in the Americas. Thus resulting in very different yet similar stories.