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Ancient Egyptian creation myths. Fon creation myth. Kaang creation story (Bushmen) Kintu myth (Bugandan) Mandé creation myth. Mbombo (Kuba, Bakuba or Bushongo/Boshongo) Ngai (Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai ) Serer creation myth (cosmogony of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania) Unkulunkulu (Zulu)
- Hopi Mythology
Major deities Tawa, the sun spirit and creator in Hopi...
- Enûma Eliš
Enūma Eliš (Akkadian Cuneiform: 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺, also spelled "Enuma...
- Genesis Creation Myth
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both...
- Earth-diver
The Creation (c. 1896–1902), painting by James Tissot [1] A...
- Book of Invasions
The writers of Lebor Gabála Érenn sought to create an epic...
- Ainu Creation Myth
The Ainu creation myths are the traditional creation...
- Raven Tales
Athabaskan is the language family of several contiguous...
- Kumulipo
Creation chant. In the Kumulipo the world was created over a...
- Hopi Mythology
An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin. These stories aim to explain the origins of natural phenomena or human ...
Nov 7, 2020 · The water wagtail was very important in Ainu creation myth. The Ainu creation myth emerged from Ainu peoples of Japan. In this myth, time can be broken down into three parts – “mosir noskekehe” (“the world’s center”); “Mosir sikah ohta” (“a time when the universe was born”); and “mosir kes” (“end of the world”).
- 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.
Nov 23, 2015 · Origin Stories from Around the World. Published and Created by: Kate Harris. 0 Favorites 15 Copies (view) Language Arts And English +3 Age Levels Primary (5 to 8 years old), Elementary (9 to 12 years old), Middle School (13 to 15 years old), Post-Secondary. Creation myths, or origin stories, tell us what a culture believes about how humans came ...
1. 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. He was the first being in Norse mythology, arriving much sooner than other well-known Nordic gods, such as Thor or Odin.
