Myth of Er

All pieces of literature are assured to have comparisons and contrasts. For instance the creation myths African Bushmen and Iroquois have a lot of comparisons and contrasts. The most easily anticipated comparison is that they both tell their theories and aspects of how the world was created. They each have a very contrasting way of defining how it happened, but the theory is the identical. The African Bushmen consider that their god Kaang designed everything. “Kaang, the Great Master and Lord…

In the past, many cultures tried to explain their world by telling creation stories. There are many of these stories and some have many similarities and differences. The two stories that have a number similarities and differences are the Greek and Cherokee creation stories even though these cultures lived many thousands of miles apart. In both the Greek and Cherokee stories, they talk about the creation of the universe as beginning in darkness. In the beginning of Cherokee, “the earth began as…

Within Ovid’s Metamorphoses there are many transformations that are effective, and many that are not. Within this analytical piece, I am going to explore and analyse different transformations and describe what makes them effective. Ovid begins his account by addressing the gods and asking them to inspire him. He then goes on to describe the creation of the earth, and how the planet came to be. The God Nature separated the elements that were in a “great mass”, and began to mould the earth into a…

cultures and religions in the world, there are many different creation myths. Each culture has their own creation myth and there are many similarities, or motifs, within these creation myths. The three creation myth motifs that I thought were the most important were humans being made perfectly in the first attempt, an angry god punishing humans or another god, and women being created after men. Several cultures’ creation myths describe humans as being made perfectly in the first attempt. The…

Gods in Genesis Often when one hears the word “Genesis”, two things come in mind: The first book of the Bible and the origin of creation. Hence, when one reads the first chapter of Genesis, God is introduced as the creator of “heaven and earth.” (Gen. 1:1). In the Hebrew text, God (also known as Yahweh) is ultimately responsible for creation, however, Near Eastern views of creation say otherwise. Cosmology is essential in creation when it comes to Egypt and Babylonian’s account of Genesis.…

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…

Whether the world was created from the corpse of an ice giant, nothingness, or the songs of a supreme being's thoughts, similarities remain between these seemingly very different myths. This paper will compare and contrast the spontaneous creation of the world from nothingness, Ex Nihilo, from the biblical account, the creation of the world by Iluvatar's Ainur, and the splitting of the corpse of Ymir to form the Earth. Similarities that shall be covered are birth, mother and/or fathers of…

Looking at Creation Myths The creation myths of the Norse and Aztecs specifically contain large similarities. The most significant one is the idea that the world was made through the killing of a giant creature. According to Norse mythology there were three creator gods, brothers Odin, Vili, and Ve. The brothers decided to kill the evil giant Ymir and from his body create the world. Once dead, his flesh became the earth, his teeth and bones became rocks, his blood became rivers and oceans, his…

Lono and Kū are two Hawaiian gods that were most often represented through feathered basketry and wooden sculptures. Lono is known as the god of agriculture, plants, rain, pigs, peace, and most often connected to the idea of genealogy; while Kū is well known as the god of war, forests, canoes, houses, and crafts. These are two opposing gods in Hawaiian culture and are dependent on each other because of their juxtaposition to one another. They complete a sort of higher balance between each other…

At the foundation of every culture is a myth that explains how the earth was created. These myths become a frame of reference for people to think about the world and their place within it. The Apaches, like many Native American tribes, have little to no written history other than that written by white men. Relying entirely on oral tradition, they have passed down and reshaped their stories of creation from generation to generation. The Apache have two stories of creation that follow the…