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During the two stories, the Judeo Christian story and the Iroquois story, they both talk about two different religions and how they see their religious leader and also how they think the world is made up of. The story’s explain how a woman has birth of two children. In the middle of the story both of the couples go to a tree and eat something and then they get punished for eating from the tree because God told them not to eat from it, also in both of the story’s there is one primary family member and or ancestor. Both of the story’s also talk about how the earth came together and how it was formed. So instead of just similar traits there are differences as well, similar to the Indian story is talking about how they respect nature and not

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