Creation Myths and Agriculture? Scanty Info...

The Iroquois creation myth has parallels with many other stories, including Christianity's rehash of Mediterranean stories. The characters in the myths seem to represent the sun, stars, and moon. The geography of the myths represents alignments of the stars and the earth's celestial axis. They seem to encode the story of the solar year and the cycles of the stars, planets and moon and poetically relate those elements to the human experience and the cycle of a human life.

It seems likely that prior to the mass civilizations of the middle east and Mediterranean world, people in Europe, Africa, and Asia lived in societies where shamanic tradition passed down knowledge of astronomy to help regulate activities through the year. Those stories morphed into religion, and the shaman morphed into the medieval version of a priesthood.

It's interesting to wonder if these mythical systems really shape what people think or do, or if it's totally the other way around. The western mythology might come from people who participated in pastoral "agriculture", meaning they wandered from place to place, wrecking it and then moving on. That ends up embedded in the garden of Eden Story. "Everything was good, and then we fucked it up..."

The Norse creation myth story reads a lot like the Iroquois' story and has elements of the Garden of Eden story and man-creation story, e.g. Two Sons of the Mother, Cain and Abel, or Ymir and Buri. It's pretty hard to glean much info about how agricultural practices relate to religion from the sparse remnants of the beliefs of non-Christian people, since Christianity tried to obliterate all that came before it--the religion of the locust people? "The people who build borgs."

Animals have much more of a presence in the native american and norse stories, which might indicate that those people were more embedded into the natural world than sand people or classical world urban people who wrote the bible.

Anyway, I know jack-shit about the native american mythological tradition and it'll require a whole lot more reading to gain any insights.