Creation Story Religion

Creation stories have been a staple in the founding of ancient peoples religions, the creation stories come in many different forms from many varying cultural beliefs and show many archetypal elements alongside the reason for their creation. The purpose of the creation stories can be interpreted in many ways since the ancient people who created them obviously aren’t here today, however, the literary elements of the stories can be decoded into what the writing was intended to teach. The creation stories also have many archetypal aspects of their individual readings that all connect to each other. Cultural values and many other principles of ancient cultures are present in the creation stories which give us a basis from where modern cultures …show more content…
Since ancient times people have tried to figure out how things in their world exist and what better way to explain it than making a story of that “Creator” to satisfy their curiosity. People would have evidence against a “Creator” since they can’t see it, but there would obviously be a group of believers that consider how a supernatural force could exist. All the people believing in this creation story or religion would be united under the same god creating a sense of unification among the people. People who are unified are stronger than those who work against each other or who have differing beliefs, evidence? When Spain colonized South America they gave them two things that united them, Roman Catholicism, and the same language with the acceptation of Portuguese since it’s extremely similar to Spanish. Under the unifying elements Spain gave South America, The South American’s have proved to be the most successful location, other than the US, during the huge colonization period from the mid-1400’s to mid-1700. All in all, creation stories were created to explain why everything in the world was present and religion coming from the story unified the