Deluge myth

A similarities between four indigenous religions is there was something pre-existing at the time of creation. Prior to creation of Earth for the Lakota Sioux the gods resided in a celestial domain. Secondly Australian Aboriginal, Baiame the god existed before creation. Thirdly in Wakaranga African, God existed before creation. Lastly the Hopi, Hard-Being Women deities of the East and West ocean and the sun existed prior to creation. An additional similarity between all four religions is…

There are many different creation stories told by many different cultures and tribes, but they all have their similarities and differences. In the Iroquois creation story, animal and man work together to create their world to share. But thinking back to Native American cultural traditions, they praised animals and have always treated them kindly. In the Judeo-Christian story, man is dominating to animals. Which is still true today, people claim ownership over animals. The Iroquois story…

Humans have an innate need to understand the world they live in. For thousands of years, societies from all over world have attempted to explain the physical world through origin myths. These myths detail how the earth, sun, moon and man were created. They revolve around a belief that we were created by some higher being. There are a multitude of origin stories. For example, in Christianity, the Bible’s book of Genesis offers an explanation of the origin of humanity. God created the…

The Book of Genesis was the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Genesis 1 of the bible describes the creation of the world in accordance to the image of God. According to the Book of Genesis, the world was described to be “formless and desolate”. The Earth already had water, but was covered in complete darkness, as there was no light to begin with. God created the world in numerous days and not one day. God’s first creation was by a command. That command was, “Let…

In the oriental and culture-rich world of Japan, the creation story starts off with three deities and the heaven and the Earth. Their world at the time the creation story was written is very small. They knew that the heavens and the earths were existing by upon their creation of their ‘world’ which is, in this case, Japan. Three deities had arisen were the “Spirit Master of the Center of Heaven”, the “August Wondrously Producing Spirit”, and the “Divine Wondrously Producing Ancestor”. However,…

THE MYSTERY OF CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION The birth of the universe has been a discussion of Religion and Science. There is, or rather seems to be a stalking difference between the two. Creation is, without a cast of doubt the most profound mystery in the cosmos. The greatest puzzle of all times is whether the universe came into being by some freak random chance or was it created by God who brought everything to being by a perfect design. Scientific evidences found in recent times show that…

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…

The creation story depicts human beings as the zenith of God’s creative activity. Their uniqueness is portrayed in two separate and complementary accounts. Genesis chapter 1 is a terse overview of all creation while Genesis chapter 2 shows that God lavished very personal and particular attention on the creation of both Adam and Eve. Significantly, it was only humans of whom God said, “Let us make mankind [“human being,” not exclusively “male”] in our image, in our likeness” (1:26), “so that they…

I agree with the statement about creation myths being important to every human society. I say this because in order to know where you are going in life you have to know where you came from. I think that history from countries other than the U.S. play a huge part in the way we live today the way we as people eat sleep breath and think is derived from the foundation that our ancestors laid way before time. Creation myths not only had an effect on society and the way people thought, but on the…

Norse Creation Myth The Norse Creation Myth provides the purposes and the origin of the Cosmo’s to the Norsemen. The myth center’s primarily on the creation of the world and the influence of the first three and arguably most powerful gods. However, the deeper and more idealistic meaning or themes provide a basis for the Norsemen’s thinking and connections to the world around them One theme that is apparent in this myth is the creation of something new from the destruction of something old.…