Bullet Points Regarding the Two Creation Stories Creation via the gods: • Creation of humans and animals was under the responsibility of Prometheus and his brother, Epimetheus. The former, whose name translates to “forethought,” was much wiser than the latter, whose name means “afterthought.” • Epimetheus acted on his impulses, as normal, and gave all the best qualities, shells, swiftness, cunningness, and et cetera, so Prometheus formed the humans upright and gave them fire from the sun, “… a protection to men far better than anything else, whether fur or feathers or strength or swiftness.” (p. 85)…
When describing the origins of the universe two perspectives are often quoted. These perspectives are the natural perspective and the creation perspective. The natural perspective believes that evolution is responsible for the formation of the universe. This evolution took a vast amount of time. Therefore, the evolutionist believes the universe is billions of years old.…
Creation stories Chinese and Greek have both similar and different archetypes. Chinese and Greek creation stories both involve an egg that helped to create the world or exist in the world’s creation. The Chinese story had an egg shaped cloud that existed before the earth was created. The Greek story Pan Gu and Nu Wa states that the egg broke to release matter of the universe. The Greek creation story was also created by an egg.…
Although the Greek and Chinese creations stories originate from two different cultures, they both allocate some archetypal similarities as well as differences. There are several similarities in the creation archetypes of the world and the universe itself within the Greek and Chinese creation Stories. Both were generated out of chaos. For the Chinese, “All the matter of the universe swirled chaotically in that egg” (Chinese creation story). While the Greek’s way of creation was by a black-winged bird named Nyx’s golden egg hatching.…
Norse Mythology Creation Myth We don’t always think of the Vikings as having a religion but if they did then it would have been Norse mythology. Using Norse Mythology, the Vikings told a complex myth as to how they believe the world came to be. Characters established through Norse mythology were complex, intriguing, and left the reader wanting more. Following their own timeline, the Vikings told and passed on stories that would later influenced our media as we know it.…
Some similarities between Chinese creation mythology and Egyptian Creation mythology was how in each myth the way they created the world was out of self-sacrifice. The simple fact that they both arose out from nothing is also a similarity between the two. Some differences might be that both methods of creation are different and a little more specific; the Chinese creation myth, the creator is a god and the Egyptian one is a…
In the Chinese, Egyptian, and Maori creation myths, the creators came from the Chaos. The Chinese creation myth has the first of its two creators, Pan-gu, birthed from the egg that contained Yin and Yang, the name of the Chaos in the Chinese myth. The Egyptian creation myth has Nu, the “dark, swirling chaos before the beginning of time.” Out of Nu comes the creator Atum but was not created by the Chaos. In the Maori creation myth, the Chaos is known as Te Kore or the Nothing.…
Two myths represent the: the New Zealand creation myth and the Iroquois creation myth. Both of these myths tell of the journey others, before us, had to take in order to create a perfect world. The New Zealand creation myth tells of how God's children had no room to grow; thus the gods of life experimented ways to create space for growth. And in the Iroquois creation myth the earth was created for "the mother of all living things", the chief's daughter, who was looking for health when she fell from the sky into the great animals' world. In this myth the animal where there to help create a world for the girl to live on.…
The Hindus have different versions of the book, like Christians have Holy Bible and the King James Version (just to name a few). Hindu tradition practice from a variety of books as well, one in particular the Rig Veda, a collection of Sanskrit hymns, sung different theories of creation, but in the tenth book (RV 10.121) is dedicated to the beginning of when there was only the void. Although, there are various creation myths in the Rig Veda, one of them tell about the creation egg being a golden womb, fetus or embryo called the Hiranyagarbha. It is said, while the golden womb floated in the empty darkness it had contracted and birth the universe, sun, moon, planets and stars. The golden embryo gave into the natural process of the energy and heat; cultivating, the molecules that became reciprocal to the elements and atoms, which gave into the rise of heat that reflected a luminous vapor.…
Now that I know some of these myths, I have found really odd the similarities that exist between some of them. The creationist myths for example. My first question is: Do you consider that some of these myths could have been basically the same story adapted to the people of different societies?…
The two creation stories are very interesting in their plot. One is from a religion that has molded the world we now live in today and another from a long lost forgotten culture that only a few know about. Even though these cultures are hugely different they have uncanny similarities and very understandable differences which proves that humans are connected by nature. The first thing that comes to mind when reading these two stories is “What is with the fascination with trees.” It kind of makes sense in the fact that the people from the past and the present are fascinated by trees.…
There are interesting similarities that cosmologies share with each other concerning the creation of man and its surroundings. Most of these myths mention having a creator who created every living organism. Who also establishes order and guides men on what they should do throughout their life. The reason for there being so many similarities between these stories is because the people that continue to tell them and pass them on might share the same concerns as others. Although these people are from different religions, geographical locations or ethnicity they all question the creation of the universe and want to be in certainty.…
There are many different theories regarding the creation of the universe. There is the religious aspect on the origin of the universe, then there is the scientific explanation on it. With science, we simply don’t know everything about the universe and its secrets, but what religion does, is it fills in the blank spaces that we have. It then simplifies it to higher power influence or what is called Intelligent design (cite). This is a pseudoscience view that substitutes “certain features of the universe and of living things” with a creator, not an undirected process such as natural selection (cite).…
They believed Brahma came from nothing, by thought he created water where his semen was in and that grew into a golden egg. When he was born, by thought again, the halves became earth and heaven. The Bible’s story of creation is different but it talks about a superior being from the beginning. The Bible says god created the universe and human beings in 7 days. Some people may all other culture’s stories strange or funny because it is not their belief.…
Along with the differences in gender came a sexual want between a man and a woman, coming from both sides. When beings first started engaging in sex the others threw things at the couple saying that sex was a horrible thing to commit. During the time of rice the beings came to realize that they did not have to go get rice for every meal, but pick it in bulk and eat from that stash for longer, and have to do work less often. The creatures soon decided to set up sections for them to pick rice to eat from individually, they invented a sense of property. The beings then started stealing rice from other being’s property.…