A comparison of American Indian creation myths from across the Americas, indicates that there are strong similarities in terms of story content, story motifs and story structural syntax. This commonality of creation narrative speaks to the time depth of these traditions as well as the strength of oral storytelling techniques that were used to transmit these stories. It can also be observed that the Native creation stories were and are clearly linked to ceremonial content, with each ceremonial enactment reinforcing the story and its meaning to the participants. These stories were also reflected in other cultural formats including dress, stone, ceramic and wood inscriptions, knotted cords (e.g. the Andean quipus), landscape mnemonics and books containing mnemonic pictures and/or written language (e.g. Maya script). Stories expressed in cave art inscriptions have also been proposed. (See "Book Recommendation: The White Shaman Mural" this site).

These themes will be explored in a book under development by Craig O'Connor: See "Creation of the Americas" this site.