Essays on Creation myth

“Things born from darkness are darkness; Things born from light are lightness.”~ Ku (Mythome) Dust and smoke can be seen in the distance of a cloud less sky. The smoke, coming from the mountain intrigued Pele who had been following the brightest star northeast. Pele, the goddess of fire, lightning, wind, and volcanoes new at…

Walter L. Williams Summary             Modern society recognizes only two distinct genders: male and female. This is not the case among many American Indian Societies because there exists among them a diversity of sex roles beyond the traditional definition. The berdache tradition is one proof of the existence of something considered as a diverse rather…

The Greek word cosmic, means “order and harmony” in the world, and on a more broad level, the universe. Opposite to “cosmic” would be “chaos”. Cosmic presupposes the concept that all of the universe is collaborating in the still, evolving creation of everything that is. So, merely by its existence, every element of nature performs…

What’s the difference between myths and theories? Well that’s an easy question to answer isn’t it; myths involve fiction while theories involve facts, we should not make any parallels between science and superstition. There, we’ve answered the question, or have we? Although many people will agree that myth and theory are two totally different things,…

A myth is a representative story of how our universe was created and how people first became to occupy the world. Depending on which societal or cultural group tells their individual myth, all stories are told to have symbolic, metaphorical, and literal truths behind them. A commonality amongst each group is that, typically, a myth…

The creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how certain beings came to inhabit it. The Greek mythical version of this narrative was created by the Greeks to explain the things that happen I nature that they could not explain, so they used gods’ goddesses and other mythical beings to…

Creation myths are connected with religion because that is how the earliest human beings thought, with dreams and reality intertwined and meaning picked from anywhere that seemed suitable at the time, with no particular attempt to find something better. Myth were a way to explain their rituals and/or ceremonies and rituals achieved mythical explanations. The…

Myth archetypes are a very important part of our lives tracing way back to our ancestors. The three major creation myths are aetiological myths, historical myths, and psychological myths. All three of these different myths are what helps the creation myth to be made and understood. With each creation myth one of the three will…

Throughout time the use of narratives has allowed humanity to connect with each other expressing our cultural identity and the relationships we have with nature, each other and the spiritual world. Originally oral traditions to current literary works, the mythic stories are used as symbols of the human experience to speak to us about proper…

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” is a quote by Albert Einstein. Seems like a weird way to try to connect things, when you first read it. I think his way of thinking was going in the correct direction. The three are closely related somehow, some way. The tree would…