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A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions, and are found throughout human culture.
- Proto Indo-Europeans had various creation myths, but most involved a giant feeding from the primal cow named Auðumbla. Ymir is the personification of chaos before the creation.
- Native Americans told tales of a raven accidentally creating man from a pea pod. Raven stumbles upon a fully grown man. Curious and confused, Raven goes on to question him.
- Kabbalah teaches that Light has always existed and had a need to share, so it created a Vessel who also desired to share; the Vessel created all life as we know it.
- For Hindus, there is no one story of creation, but multiple creations stories that tell of cyclic creation and destruction. The story of Vishnu is one creation story.
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- Väinämöinen. In Finnish mythology, an old sage named Väinämöinen creates the universe and is their epic hero, first consciousness, and the first power. While floating in the sea, he also creates the land of the Earth.
- Unkulunkulu. The pre-colonial, ancient Zulus believed that before animals or humans existed, only darkness and one large seed were on the earth. The seed sank into the earth and formed long reeds, called Uthlanga.
- Navajo Creation Story. In this myth, the first world was small, pitch black, and surrounded by four seas with one island that had a single pine tree. The four seas were ruled by the Big Water Creature, the Blue Heron, the Frog, and White Thunder.
- The Golden Chain. A story from Yoruba tradition says that before any people were created, all life existed in the sky. Olorun was an all-powerful supreme being who lived in the sky with other creatures called orishas.
Learn about the Genesis story of creation in Christianity and the Hindu creation myths. Compare and contrast the different beliefs and perspectives on the origin and purpose of the world.
- Heliopolis creation story – ancient Egypt. According to the ancient Egyptians, the universe started with a primordial ocean known as Nun. At the center of Nun was a giant pyramid called benben.
- Proto-Indo-European Creation Myths. Among many Proto-Indo-European cultures, Ymir was the force that existed in the time before time. This being was also the embodiment of the vast sea of chaos (Ginnungagap) – a region devoid of any life form or structure or order.
- Mayan creation story. The Mayan creation story is contained in the Popul Vuh (also known the “Book of the Community” or the “Book of the People”). The text was written in Mayan hieroglyphics.
- Babylonian creation myth. The ancient Babylonians believed that in the beginning two primordial gods – Aspu and Tiamet (or Tiamat) – existed. Prior to that, the universe was a vast void of nothingness, land and sky had yet formed.
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity. [1] The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for god) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses, and sanctifies ...
Mar 12, 2018 · Explore summaries of stories of how the world and mankind came to be, from chaos, a primordial soup, an egg, or whatever; that is, creation myths. Compare and contrast the Greek, Norse, Biblical, Rig Veda, Chinese, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Zoroastrian creation myths.
