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      When reflecting on the conversation about King's The Truth About Stories, the subtle dichotomy King presents throughout the story struck me.  When I read the book  myself I noticed how King would often point out the flaws in the overall treatment of Native Americans by the majority, the Judeo-Christian population.  When, with the help of others' ideas, we deconstructed the book to get to the overall themes, this contrast between Thomas King's feelings towards Judeo-Christian myths and Native American myths was presented to me. I immediately decided that the myth I had chosen was more similar to the Native American tales. This variation of the myth that I chose did not seem to refer at all to evil, it was focused on recalling how nature was created.  This was very prevalent in the first myth that King told.  In Judeo-Christian myths more often then not there seems to be this evil following the characters trying to corrupt them, and the omnipresent character, God, will have rigid rules for the characters that evil is seeking to keep the corruption form happening.  When looking over the other myths, one in particular struck me as falling into the same category, so to speak, as both mine and the myth that King initially told. It was the Mayan myth posted by Karina.  Both the Mayan myth and King's myth portray the animals as helpful in the creation of the land (king's myth) and the creation of humans (the Mayan tale).  Along with that, the similarities extend to the lack of mention of evil in the tale.