Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions, and are found throughout human culture. A creation myth is usually...

2700–2200 BCE) have provided the majority of information regarding ancient Egyptian creation myths. These myths also form the earliest recorded religious...

myths occur in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis creation narrative. The story is known from three fragments representing different versions of the...

The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity, told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian...

Serer creation myth is the traditional creation myth of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. Many Serers who adhere to the tenets of the...

of creation myths List of legendary creatures by type List of mythology books and sources List of mythological objects List of culture heroes List of world...

Flood myths are common across a wide range of cultures, extending back into Bronze Age and Neolithic prehistory. These accounts depict a flood, sometimes...

their myths, legends, and history together, considering myths and legends to be factual accounts of their remote past. In particular, creation myths take...

park in Northern Kentucky Creation Evidence Museum ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History List of creation myths Religious cosmology Usborne...

September 2014. Leeming, David A. (2009). "Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia" (PDF). Creation Myths of the World (2nd ed.). Greenwood Publishing...

origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating...

refers both to one of the Mesopotamian myths focusing on the earth’s creation, and also the main character of that myth. The myth possibly has Assyrian...

waters of these myths and the primeval waters which appear in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity...

appeared in the myths Blown Away, Finger in a Barrel, Catching a Bullet in Your Teeth, Bullets Fired Up, Mega Movie Myths, Firearms Folklore, Myths Revisited...

Dating creation is the attempt to provide an estimate of the age of Earth or the age of the universe as understood through the creation myths of various...

versions of a Babylonian deluge myth (see Gilgamesh flood myth), as well as creation myths. On examination it became clear that the Assyrian myths were drawn...

Myths. Journal of American Folklore, pp. 26 (99): 13–63 Beyer, H. O. (1923). Ethnography of the Bikol People. vii "BICOL Origin Myth: The Creation of...

often establishes justice there. Many elements of Korean creation myths find parallels in the mythologies of nearby East and Inner Asia societies. The mainland...

mythology of the Miwok Native Americans are myths of their world order, their creation stories and 'how things came to be' created. Miwok myths suggest...

Debate between Winter and Summer or Myth of Emesh and Enten is a Sumerian creation myth belonging to the genre of Sumerian disputations, written on clay...

A Dictionary of Creation Myths. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510275-8. Long, Charles H. (1963). Alpha: The Myths of Creation. New York: George...

creation myths, in which the gods form the universe out of primordial chaos; the stories of the reign of the sun god Ra upon the earth; and the Osiris myth, concerning...

of the indigenous peoples of the Americas "Blackfoot Legends (Folklore, Myths, and Traditional Siksika Indian Stories)". www.native-languages.org. Gods...

collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology...

of water or haunted places still exists, often associated with a jinn or the tormented soul of a deceased human. Creation myths explain the creation of...

of the creation myth found in the Bible's Genesis creation narrative. Since the 1970s, the most common form of this has been Young Earth creationism which...

conventional English title Hymn of Creation is perhaps misleading, since the verse does not itself present a cosmogony or creation myth akin to those found in...

is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia...

proverbs. Stories concerning Efik myths include creation myths, supernatural beings, mythical creatures, and warriors. Efik myths were initially told by Efik...

Wari) is a collection of myths, belonging to the religious and cultural traditions of the Meitei people, the predominant ethnic group of Manipur. It is associated...