Essays on Creation myth

Both Joy Harjo’s poem, “Perhaps the World Ends Here” and Yusef Komunyakka’s poem, “Facing It” represent attempts by the poets to devise a central symbol within a specific poem which is capable of holding a vast number of associations, from the familial to the multi-national. By investing inanimate objects: a kitchen table, a war memorial…

“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…

Reading the various stories of how the world came to be is absolutely enthralling and totally captivating. One can lose hours reading story after story, especially since even each individual creation myth can have many various telling of the same story depending on region and individual tribes In a certain area. That is exactly how…

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,…

Through centuries and decades, different people lived. Therefore, they had many beliefs and thoughts on the creation of the world. Various beliefs had many similarities and differences, which revealed to us the way people thought about this subject. In this essay, we will compare and contrast the beliefs of the three creation stories, that are,…

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…