Every single society in the world has had the innate necessity to find out the origin of their existence and the world that surrounds them. Several American Indian tribes have done it through stories which narrate the beginning of human beings, the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, death and all natural phenomena like the rain. In addition to this, these stories fulfill basic social functions. For instance, it offers a source of information about the community's culture; it gives to the members of the community a guide of behavior; it gives an order to the world separating it in 3 "kingdoms": the natural kingdom, the human kingdom and the supernatural kingdom; and also answers basic questions of the human being like who I am; why I am here, where am I going, giving sense to our existence. These stories are widely known as myths.
             Myths are present in every single Indigenous community. Although they vary from culture to culture, they may have several characteristics in common. Theses similarities may be found because these different tribes used to face the same basic problems and used to ask themselves the same questions. They wanted to know who they were, why nature behaved in a certain way, and mainly to know the "why" and the "how" of the universe. In addition to this, according to Levi-Strauss, if we don't take into account the specific content of these stories, we may find several similarities due to the structure of the myths is very similar in every culture. This theory was based on the Chomsky's theory about human language that talks about an Universal Grammar which is present in every single human language. In the same way myths share the same structure no matter the culture they come from. In this essay I want to find out the basic similarities between the origin myth of the Navaho culture and the origin myth of the Chibcha culture. Because there are in both cultures se...