Creation stories are most likely to be created by different gods, things, or even by different people but still could be sommelier to another creation story. Although the Chinese and the Greek creation stories have different reason of being created, they may share similar archetype and also different archetypes. The Chinese and Greek creation stories share archetype similarities. For example a similarity in the Chinese and Greek creation stories is something splitting apart to create the earth. In the Chinese story it says “For 18,000 years he developed and slept in the egg. Finally one day he awoke and stretched, and the egg broke to release the matter of the universe. The lighter purer elements drifted upwards to make the sky and heavens,
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We all think god was the one that created the world and every living thing in earth. An example of a difference is the way the Chinese’s and Greeks where created the earth by different people. However in the Chinese Pan Gu was the one that created the earth. In the Greek creation story Nyx golden egg created the earth. It exactly doesn’t have to be a person that created earth it can also be a thing that created the earth. Another difference is how humans were created differently in both creation stories. In the Chinese human were mad by mud from a pond “She saw her reflection and realized that there was nothing like herself in the world…from the edge of a pond she took some mud and shaped it in the form of a human being. At first her creation was lifeless…it took life as soon as it touched the soil” (Chinese creation story). Therefore in the Greek creation story humans were created in the image of god. “He told them to go to earth and create men…Prometheus set to work forming men in the image of the gods…Prometheus finally finished making men. However when he went to see what gift to give men Epimetheus shamefacedly informed him that he has foolishly used all the gifts” (Greek creation story). Now we know that god didn’t create everything in the creation
We all think god was the one that created the world and every living thing in earth. An example of a difference is the way the Chinese’s and Greeks where created the earth by different people. However in the Chinese Pan Gu was the one that created the earth. In the Greek creation story Nyx golden egg created the earth. It exactly doesn’t have to be a person that created earth it can also be a thing that created the earth. Another difference is how humans were created differently in both creation stories. In the Chinese human were mad by mud from a pond “She saw her reflection and realized that there was nothing like herself in the world…from the edge of a pond she took some mud and shaped it in the form of a human being. At first her creation was lifeless…it took life as soon as it touched the soil” (Chinese creation story). Therefore in the Greek creation story humans were created in the image of god. “He told them to go to earth and create men…Prometheus set to work forming men in the image of the gods…Prometheus finally finished making men. However when he went to see what gift to give men Epimetheus shamefacedly informed him that he has foolishly used all the gifts” (Greek creation story). Now we know that god didn’t create everything in the creation