Creation Stories from Around the World.
The creation of earth and the people that inhabit it has always been a popular story to tell amongst people of different races and nationalities. The most popular creation story is from the Christian Holy Bible. Many other creation stories exist like that of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska and the Japanese creation stories of Shinto. These stories are similar in that they all involve the creation of earth and heavens told in the style of certain peoples which usually revolves around a God or Gods. .
In the Holy Bible the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day from all the hard work. On the first day he is said to have created the heavens and the earth. It really doesn't go any more in depth than that I would like it to say something more interesting but it doesn't. On the subsequent days he went on to create the other things on earth like humans and animals. It doesn't say how he created this stuff. My guess would be he just blinked and it appeared. It looks to me that whoever wrote the bible didn't pay much attention to detail! The Bible focuses more on the fact that Jesus is God and he created this stuff so end of story. The important things in the bible are the miracles God did and our salvations. The creation story was just a small feat and doesn't seem to be that important.
One of the creation stories of the Shinto which is Japanese tells of a quick creation much like that of our bible. It says that heaven, earth, In and Yo were all one and that they had to separated. The clean and pure parts were drawn out and formed the heavens while the dirty and unclean parts formed the earth. The Heavens and the Gods were very important to the Japanese in that they always put the heavens first and did not even mention the creation of man until well after the latter two. This creation story is much like that of the Bible because it is short and sweet and doesn't contain much detail about the creation of heaven and earth.
A Comparison of the Creation Stories of Hindu, Greek, and Norse Mythology There are many different creation stories from around the world. ... The first is the story of the Hindu religion. ... They all have different creation stories, but share same elements. The Hindu religion is a very interesting one, and its creation story only makes it more so. ... In Judaism, creation begins with God. ...
In comparison, the Bible story of the flood in Genesis illustrates a very similar picture of the events that occurred according to Judeo-Christianity. ... Furthermore, Mesopotamian Creation Stories also had a significant influential role in the development of Judeo-Christian creation stories. The Babylonian Creation Story Enuma Elish was written on seven severely fragmented stone tablets during the first millennium BC. ... " The parallels between this Mesopotamian story closely follow the creation story in the book of Genesis in the Bible. ... " Analyzing the parallels between the t...
Hebrew There are many differences between the Hebrew and Japanese creation stories. ... The two stories are: Hebrew Creation Story and A Japanese Creation Story Nihongi. ... They are like what God is in our creation story. ... But in the Japanese creation story the two humans created it. ... This paper showed the difference between the Japanese and Hebrew creation stories. ...
After recounting these creation stories, I will write about the true biblical account of creation as found in Genesis chapters 1-2. ... The first creation story I will write about is the Australian aborigine legend of how their world came into existence. ... The next story of creation comes from the North American Chinook tribe that lives along the coast of British Colombia. ... This African creation story comes from the Efik tribe of Nigeria. ... The differences between the three creation stories and the true biblical creation account. ...
Probably the most well known creation myth of all time is "Genesis." Derived from the Bible, "Genesis" tells the story of how a supreme being named God created the Heavens and the Earth within seven days. ... The Greeks had an equivalent story to that of "Genesis." ... "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is like a sub-story of "Genesis" because it simply appears to be a smaller version. ... Creation myths are just like their different cultures; they have their own individual style and color to them. ...
From Words to Art - A Brief Comparison All artists have to obtain their inspiration for their creations from somewhere. ... In the story of Adam and Eve, the couple betrays God by eating the fruit he distinctly tells them not to. ... Throughout the story however, Adam and Eve never intentionally turn on each other. ... The atmosphere, setting and main idea in Baldung's creation contrasts greatly with those described in Genesis 3. ... Many artists use a story, or some form of literature to achieve an idea for a painting or sculpture. ...
The fact that Victor loses his mother, Caroline, early on in the book, and that the monster never had a mother figure in its life, shows a strong comparison between the two, and could be the cause of both of their somewhat isolated behavior later on in life. ... , first Victor destroys the monster he was creating to be with the original creation, then Frankenstein takes revenge by taking the life of Victors wife on their wedding night. Another comparison is that they are both driven by vengeance at some point in the story. ... Victor and his creation are also quite different from each other. ...
The Christian settlers thought that Native Americans were savages and that they had very different religious ideas but by comparing a popular Native American creation myth named "The World on the Turtle's Back" with Genesis it is possible to see that both religions are based on the same ideals and values. In "The World on the Turtle's Back" the creation of the world begins with a great ocean and far above there was a Sky-World "here lived gods who were like people--like Iroquois" (Iroquois 25). ... In the Iroquois tale there are a variety of creators which change as the story prog...
The Lord of the Rings has been regarded as one of the greatest stories of modern times. ... This element of storytelling is seen throughout almost all stories regarded as mythology, the story is given a deep background involving deities and the beginning of the Earth into the creation of man and in some of them has a deity interacting with the characters in the myth. ... "It is, I should say, a 'monotheistic but 'sub-creational' mythology.' ... Although this part of the creation of the World seems to somewhat parallel Christian tradition the creation of Elves, Men and Dwarv...
