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t’s safe to say that every culture has their own creation story or many creation stories. But in some cultures they had a creation story and it’s been lost through time, or people stopped telling it. The culture later thought that their story was too far-fetched or the culture and it’s peoples died out and faded away. In Celtic culture, no known story has been known to survive, but there is a creation myth that has lasted through the ages. This myth begins by explaining that in the dawn of…

Greek culture, what are the aspects of a myth in the Greek culture? What helps a myth along? Is it the essence of the nationality that it comes from? Myths that allow for hate, incest anger and rage all in the same stance and/or paragraph brings a type of passion to the myth alive. This in turn allows us to believe that the unbelievable is true or could happen and at the same time allows us to take away from the myth what we need as a learning point if there was one. However, what about the…

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…

Throughout the diverse 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…

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…

In the beginning man was curious as to how he was created and made up a story to try to explain on how the earth was created. Creation Stories were developed by many cultures to try to explain the start of earth. In the Greek and Cherokee stories there are many similarities and differences. Both the Greek and Cherokee creation stories start with total darkness and both us an animal in the creation of earth the nyx bird is a bird involved with the Greek a nyx bird is a bird with…

Discuss Egyptian, Biblical and Near Eastern creation mythology. What made the creation mythology of each of these cultures distinct? Creation myths are powerful in cultures because they speak to our deep spiritual and social need for a sense of place and a sense of belonging. Through offering accounts of how everything began from animals, plants, earth, moon, sky and more, they provide universal coordinates within which people can imagine their own existence and find a role in the larger…

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…

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…

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…