Comparisons Of Ancient Cosmogonies, Platonic And Biblical Cosmogonies

In order to make this argument, this paper consist of three parts. The first part will argue why Genesis is seen as the most compelling text due to its simplicity and logic. The second part will examine Hesiod’s Prometheus/Pandora story to prove that the complexity makes a logical statement of why the evils in the world came to be. The final part will be counter argument which states that Genesis might be more compelling at explaining the evils of the world because it demonstrates both divine and mortal choices.

In the Aztecs’ story, the first entity was the Earth Goddess Coatlicue, from whom all else sprung. Likewise, in the Greeks’ account, the earth goddess Gaia was the progenitor of the universe. Both are the direct ancestors of all their cultures’ respective deities. Thus, the Aztec and Greek creation myths have deeply rooted

There are three groupings of these myths, all with similar motifs. The first group is the Western style apocalyptic archetype. These myths focus on the end of the world and the final establishment of the Kingdom of God. The second group is the Eastern style myth which are more focused on the rhythm

In Genesis, God is just known to exist from the beginning and then creates the heaven and the Earth from a “formless void” (CM pg. 77). In a similar fashion, in the Theogony, it was said that in the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss (Theogony ln, 116), which implies that Chaos already existed and then from that abyss, Gaia was born, and Gaia represents the Earth. With regards to the intervention by the Gods, this sounds like to me an extension of the externalist theory of Charter theory that both of these are explanations why we act a certain way and also as a way to justify certain morals or ethics that are expected in those cultures. And with the similarities of explaining the creation of Earth from nothingness, that is simply an extension of the externalist theory of Nature Myth, which is a primitive way to explain how things came to be and why they are that way. I find the Charter theory most compelling because it shows and explains why myths are used to justify certain cultural practices and codes that might and shows why it is so important within

Did you know that religious texts are some of our most important documents in history serving as an idea of past. And two famous texts are The first chapter of Genesis and “Creation of Hymn”. These two documents are very similar than they are different, even though they are from different origins. The style, narration, and tone are very different in both texts, but there is a couple of things that they are in common. The idea of emptiness, the description and establishment of darkness, the setting of water, and the origin life.

While I was reading these interesting stories, each story had some qualities that where similar, but there were also many differences. Which wasn’t really a huge surprise since the setting of each story happened during different times, and on different parts of the planet. All the stories involved a special child, and everyone knew he was gifted. A few characters in these myths have powers, but some do not. Sikhism and Christianity seem to be based on Monotheistic viewpoint, but Buddhism and Shinto seem to be based on a polytheistic viewpoint. Each story was either about a god, or a prophet spreading his new found message to the people.

It should be noted that all creation myths tend to possess similar themes, despite differing story lines. As noted before, there exists the basic ideas of chaos before creation, and gods to form life. But then various myths show that, once life has been created, the gods tend to retreat from the humanity they create, instead watching them from afar and using specifically chosen and often religious contacts to spread their words and commands. This deus

Almost every culture on earth has a creation myth. Most if not all of these myths borrow from the core theme of a God-centered creation as contained in the book of Genesis chapter one. According to Van Over (11), a good number of these creation stories show a similarity in the point of their origin. Rumor has it that some of these myths have emanated from actual historical occurrences or events. All creation myths emerge from one ancient source and only diverge when it comes to their timing and the surrounding cultural circumstances. The variations in the myths come as a result of the differences in time and cultural circumstances. Aside from the two causes of variation, in general all creation myths show a basic outline and they also share some basic elements.

Evolutions of civilizations can occur because of differences in people’s religion, culture, or geographic setting of the settlement. The relationship between the world of the gods and that of men was perceived differently by the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Hebrew ancient civilizations. This is demonstrated by the way each group viewed the process of creation. They had different thoughts on the creation of their gods, the universe and of man. This essay will discuss the relationship between humans and their gods in three different ancient civilizations: Sumerian, Egyptian and Hebrew.

Origin myths deliver stories explaining how the world, humans or objects came to existence. Describing where the nation comes from, they are very important to the culture of given region. Therefore, each nation developed its own stories and beliefs; however, there are many similarities between myths of various religions and cultures. A good example would be Native American stories about origin and their resemblance to Greek mythology or to the Bible. Similarities can be seen in different spheres such as creation of humankind or even in the story about flood.

Similar myths and legends have been coexisting throughout the world, regardless of eastern and western cultures, and in different languages. Greek myth is probably the world’s most famous and beloved than any other tale of legends stories. Surprisingly, Greek myth and Japanese myth share many similarities in the creation of the world and legend stories through their mythologies. Japan’s Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) is a collection of Japanese historical records as well as Japanese mythologies, in which the legend explains the creation of the world and birth of deities. However, Greek mythologies, on the other hand, do not have an official written record of mythologies or religious text like the Bible or the Kojiki, but earliest story-teller like Homer and Hesiod shared richest sources in poems, attempt to explain the beginning of the universe in human language.

This essay will compare and contrast the Biblical creation myths with other creation myths from Greece and the Ancient Near East. It will first discuss the initial creation of the universe followed by the creation of mankind and finally the recreation of man whilst drawing parallels to Sumerian and Babylonian texts, The Old Testament and Hesiods Theogony. In paying particular attention to the chronology of each myth it will be shown that the creation myths regarding the universe and mankind evolved from as far back as the Sumerian stories.

Gaia is characterised as a feminine divinity, she has the ability to give birth and is the mother of Ouranos’ children. As she is Earth, all life origins from her and Gaia could, therefore, be seen as a source of creation. As the source of creation, she is the opposite of violence and destruction. When Ouranos imprisons his children, it is Gaia who comes up with the plan to repay him for his wicked crimes, but she is not the one who carries out the plan. That Gaia is the one to come up with the plan comes forth in the lines “and then she thought of a clever, evil plan” (Hesiod, Theogony 161). But that she is not the one to carry out the plan is made clear with the line “addressed her sons, urging them on, with sorrow in her heart” (Hesiod, Theogony 163-4). She convinces her children to do as she tells them to so that they can repay their father for his wicked crimes, however, she does so with sorrow in her heart.

The book of Genesis is about the beginnings of creation and life on earth. It begins with “nothingness” and in the first seven days following God creates the heavens and the earth, light and darkness, the seas, plant life, then came the sun and the moon, the fowls and the creatures who roam the lands, followed by humankind to finish it all off. Comparing the creation aspects of Genesis to Theogony, we see that the earth was again created out of “nothingness” known as Chaos. Chaos, instead of creating everything on earth, created several other godly beings to create the earth as it is today. Therefore, it can be deduced that the stories of Genesis we derived from the stories of the gods and goddesses of Theogony. Another similarity the stories possess is in the identity and condemnation of women as evil. In Theogony women were created to be an evil placed upon the earth to cause suffering for men because Iapetos, a mischievous god, stole fire from Zeus and presented it to man. In retaliation, Zeus had his lame smith mold the shape of a “modest

The Earth's creation is something that a lot of us don’t know about. We get confused with biblical creation and Greek creation. They have a lot of things in common and a lot of things that are different. The Greeks and Biblical creation are similar in the way that they both separate light and dark, also they both created different thing of the Earth in a series; however, they are different in the way that they have different amount of Gods and the way that they split the different characteristics of the Earth up.