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- 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.
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.
- 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.
Feb 1, 2013 · Explore nine different creation stories from various cultures, each depicted by artist Noah MacMillan in colorful and abstract images. Learn how the sun, moon, earth and humans were created in each myth, from East Africa to China.
- Noah's Ark. In the well-known story told among Christians, Jews and Muslims (and in movie theaters this week), God chose to destroy the Earth with a great flood but spared one man, Noah, and his family.
- The Oracle at Delphi. In ancient Greece, in the town of Delphi on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, there was a temple devoted to the god Apollo. Within a sacred chamber, a priestess called the Pythia would breathe in sweet-smelling vapors emanating from a crack in the rock.
- Atlantis. Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote of a great civilization called Atlantis founded by a race of people who were half god and half human.
- Pele, Goddess of Kilauea. Pele came to Hawaii with her sisters and other relatives. She started in Kauai. There she met a man, Lohi’au, but she did not stay because there was no land hot enough for her liking.
Creation Myths Around the World. How stories of the beginning might have begun. An introduction in depth to my ongoing dissertation on creation myths, where I speculate on how the myths emerged at the dawn of human civilization and what shaped them. Creations stories have appeared in just about every culture and mythological tradition.
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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.
