For questions about myths of the creation of the universe, Earth, and all the things on it.
Questions tagged [creation]
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How long ago was the Dreaming?
The Dreaming, or dreamtime, is the Australian Aboriginal term for the pre-creation formless world, which was then given form by various deities including the rainbow serpent.
How long ago was the dreaming supposed to be? If there are great…
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Was the story of Adam and Eve influenced by Sumerian Ninti and Enki?
Was the story of Adam and Eve from Book of Genesis influenced by the Sumerian story of Enki and Ninti?
On Wikipedia page about Ninti we can read:
Some scholars suggest that this served as the basis for the story of Eve created from Adam's rib in…
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Do the seemingly random timespans in the Kalevala creation story have any significance?
The first chapter of the Kalevala always gives a specific number of years (sometimes multiple numbers) when describing time skips. The three examples I saw are quoted below. Is there any known significance to these numbers or time periods?
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How does the Scientological creation myth describe the rebirth of humankind following Xenu's hydrogen bombing?
I don't know much about Scientology, but I hear that their version of cosmogony involves Xenu bringing a large number of humans to Earth from somewhere-or-the-other (some millions of years ago), and then killing them all with hydrogen bombs.
How…
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Does Iroquois legend tell where the Sky People came from?
The Iroquois creation myth tells of Sky people that lived in the Sky World.
From firstpeople.us:
In the beginning, the world was not as we know it now. It was a water
world inhabited only by animals and creatures of the air who could
survive…
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Why is the Serpent the most common motif as the creator in indigenous Australian cultures?
Related to the question How long ago was the Dreaming?, according to the Wikipedia Rainbow Serpent page, the Rainbow Serpent is an integral part of many indigenous Australian cultures, and specifically
The most common motif in Rainbow Serpent…
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In Ho-Chunk mythos, how was the world created?
I'm interested in creation stories from various cultures. I find it interesting to see similarities and differences between various "origin of man" and "origin of the world" accounts.
The Ho-Chunk Nation is very visible in the area where I live,…
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Did Yggdrassil exist before the world's creation
In the cosmos creation myth, Ymir is born from the clash of ice and fire that comes from Muspelheim and Niflheim. When Odin and his brothers kill Ymir and create the world using his body it sounds like the creation of midgard, but not Yggdrasil…
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Is there any explanation in greek mythology for the creation of Uranus and Gaea?
I was just wondering because there never seems to be a beginning. Greek mythology always seems to start with just there being Uranus and Gaea with no events before that. Is there a beginning before the beginning?
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Why did many ancient civilizations believe that giants created the world?
From what I know, there were at least three ancient civilizations that believed that giants created the world.
Firstly, we have the Chinese, where the creation myth dates back to 600 BC, according to which, the giant Phan Ku creates the world and…
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To the Greeks, how was the Earth created?
In Greek mythology, Cronus/Kronos and Gaea were the first gods to exist, Gaea the goddess to rule the Earth and Cronus the moon. When they first appeared, the Earth was already in existence. Neither Gaea nor Cronus have created the Earth and…
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In What Myth the Octopus Hails from a Previous World?
I have at some point in my life encountered a claim that according to some islanders' myths, octopodes are the only survivors from a previous world, and managed to squeeze through a rift between worlds when our world created and the previous one was…
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Was Ymir ever awake?
Seems like he was always asleep, until Odin created the world out of his body.
He drank the milk of the cow Auðumbla, and he is illustrated to be conscious while doing so, but that need not be. Jotun are spontaneously created from his armpits, it is…
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What is the original creation myth of Hawaiian mythology?
According to what I read in the Internet, there are two variants of the creation myth in Hawaiian mythology. According to the first two websites, the god Kane emerged from Chaos or Po and he creates the world with two other gods who emerge from Po,…
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Phrygian creation myth
Years ago I heard that the Phrygians had, in their creation myth, that they were the firstborn people of creation.
This came up in the context of biblical studies where the apostle Paul - in his letter to Colossae, which is in Phrygian territory -…
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