The Native American story of the seven directions and the Genesis story of God creating the world in seven days are very close in meaning. The Genesis version use the seven days which is a world used in the bible very often to mean a very long time. On the other hand the Native American story use the number seven in the number of directions of creations. This by itself make the stories very close. The number seven in both of these stories could be looked at as a coincidence, but if it is why are did they both pick the number seven? It could also be looked at however as they both came from similar journey's to freedom and therefore the number seven in both stories means the same thing, that is, a long time. However there are more similarities then that. Both stories also have the same core message behind them. They both bring up the idea that God, or some being no matter what the name is, created the world a piece at a time and made it in their image. This is all the readers of these stories are looking for when they read this. Most people want to know that they have someone taking care of them and that they are loved. And if you take out all the specific details of the two stories you get that same idea. This shows the amazing likeness's of the stories just by their theme's. The Theme of a story is all that anyone reads a story for anyway. The details keep the readers interest but the theme is what the reader gets out of the story. Because of this the opinion can be drawn that the Native American and the Genesis readers are reading the same thing and there for believe the same things. This shows that there is not much difference in the idea about creation between the Native Americans and the Christians.