Creation Myths

              All of the creations have similarities that recur throughout the three stories. For example they all have some sort of god-like person who the myths revolve around, even though these creation myths come from all different places in the world. Other similarities are how the people are made from clay/nature, “people” form into the sky and earth, all stories start with “In the beginning…”.

              Making things with clay is a recurring point (theme) throughout some creation myths. The clay is usually used to make living things. For example in the Inuit creation, sheep were made from clay as well as fish,birds, a bear and other animals. A woman was made also to accompany man. Also the Chinese creation myth people were made with clay.  In other myths, people were made from nature.Such as, in the Inca creation people were made from stone. In the Norse creation myth, the people were made from trees. In the Mayan creation myth, people were made out of corn paste. From the other stories I've read, for example the Egyptian creation myth, people were made from tears and in the Babylonian creation myth people were made from bones of monsters and they were covered in flesh.

              In several stories, the sky and the earth are made by people. In the Maori creation myth, Rangi was the sky and Papa was the earth. In the Egyptian creation there is Nut the sky and Geb the earth. In the Norse creation myth Ymir's body formed the earth, "His blood became the sea, his flesh became the land, his bones the mountains and his hair the trees.... his skull formed the sky, held up by four towering pillars." In the Babylonian creation myth, after Tiamat dies, Marduk raised up half of her body to the heavens to form the sky and the other half to form the earth.

              A lot of the stories I've read all start out pretty much the same. Here are a couple examples: "Before the world had a true form...", "In the beginning...", "Before the beginning of time...", "Before anything had a name, before there was firm ground or sky or the sun and moon...".  All of these beginnings of stories pretty much sound/are the same. They all have the same meaning which is the beginning of time. In conclusion, these are some of the similarities between creation myths that are from all over the world.