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Analysis of World Mythology and the Different Cultures

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Even a cursory analysis of world mythology reveals that there are a number of different cultures who have divinities in strikingly similar roles. One of the reasons why this occurs is that many despite the fact that these cultures may be autonomous of one another, they all live in the same world. The fact that they live in the same world is important because it largely means that they are exposed to the same natural phenomena, as well as to a number of simple human phenomena, and they are all attempting to explain these things. Therefore, the parallel in divinities is attributed to a similarity in external stimuli and sources that myths, and religion are used to rationalize or to make more understandable.
An excellent example of this fact is found within creation myth motifs. For instance, there are a number of different cultures who have myths involving a large flood early on in the world's history, or in some cases, one that actually begat the earth. In Christianity, of course, there was a vast void of nothingness that is described in terms similar to rolling seas; God is responsible for creating the world from this nothingness and for wiping clean its face with another flood by Noah. Although the historical accuracy of the great flood may or may not be provable, many different cultures have creation myths involving such a flood in which there deities played a role similar to that of the Christian god.
There is a striking amount of similarity between this creation myth

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