Creation Short Story

The Delphic Oracle told the famous demigod, Lydian that “no one, not even the God’s, can escape his appointed fate.” The ancient Greek’s viewed the Earth as a flat disk floating on the river of Ocean. In Plato’s Timeous, the world is treated as a living thing, with a body and soul. The primary source for the ancient Greek creation myth is Hesiod’s Theogony. According to this account, four divide beings first came into existence: Chaos, the Abyss, Earth (Gaea) and Love (Eros).

“Greek Creation” it’s says, “Uranus feared these powerful creations and hid them deep in earth.

Out of Chaos, came Earth and Sky, and the very first gods. In this story, life came from nothingness-a void. From the Void there then came Darkness and Night. From Night came the Light and then Day. Earth, named Gaia, brought about Sky, known as Uranus, and then after lying with Sky, she birthed Ocean, along with the giants and Cyclopes, and immortals. Hesiod's story is similar to the Bible in that it describes children falling from grace and having to deal with the consequences and fallout. Also like the Bible, where Eve is the cause of the fall, it is a female-the "mother" who causes the same problem in the Theogeny. This mother gets together with Chornus, her son, who cut his father Sky's insides out of his own body. In the Bible, the Father has great love for his creation, but in Hesiod's story, the father hates his children, who he called the Titans. The Titans were the parents of the Greek gods of Mount Olympus, thus beginning the line of gods that rose from chaos. There is a similarity, though, in the hatred of the father of the Theogeny and the rebellion of the children that stemmed from this feeling, and the great flood of the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh, in which the children were punished for their disobedience by an angry Father or

In 1600 BC it was completely dark outside. No one lived and nothing roamed the earth. The earth was created by the land and water god and the nature was created by the nature god. What had not yet been created was the sun and the moon. Later in 1700 BC the god of making human life created 2 people.

Man – the common principle in myths, illustrates that man was produced exclusively for the pleasure of the Gods. Since the dawn of civilization the existence of myths had been recorded and narrated in order to praise the Gods that had blessed them with life. Marduk explains that he created Man with the Gods to assure admiration

According to the ancient Aztec religion, it took the gods five tries to create the world. The first four attempts had failed because the gods were fighting among themselves. Each creator-god would take a turn being the sun in order for the world to function properly so that it would be habitable. The gods had a council and decided that Nanauatl, a lowly, humble god, would have to sacrifice himself to become the sun. But there was a major problem with this, he was not moving. It was then that the gods realized that they would also have to sacrifice themselves so the humans could live. The god Ehecatl sacrificed all the other gods and a strong wind arose to help move the sun. Once they fixed the sun, they recreated the world for the fifth time.

Upon discovering the nature of selfhood and the many texts in the house of the Unmentionable Times, Equality employs, for himself, a just, individual name: “I have read of a man who lived many thousands of years ago, and of all the names in these books, his is the one I wish to bear. He took the light of the gods and he brought it to men…His name was Prometheus” (98-9). The newly named Prometheus expounds fundamental crises faced by man, upon his birth: explaining that man was once enslaved by gods, kings, kin, and by race, but that he later broke free from all of their chains (101). And in doing so, “[Prometheus] declare[s] to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor any other man can take away from him…for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right” (101-2). He selects the name of a god who “taught men to be gods,” gave them fire, and was punished

In the beginning there was nothing, except God. God made everything out of nothing. He made the heavens, earth, and all things. It took him 6 days and on the seventh day he rested.

Before the creation of this world, there were various other attempts of creating a perfect world that would support life, humans and all the natural resources for survival. The Aztecs created a story where they described five different attempts of creating the perfect world and who were the ones involved in the creation. There were five different gods who sacrificed their lives in each and every attempt of creating a world. The Aztecs referred to the legend as an “actually a story of birth, death, and rebirth” (Aztec-History). The first four worlds were first created or in other words born, and then when they weren’t stable enough to hold life they were destroyed, by either the gods or natural resources.

Many years ago, Artemis the god of hunting was a good man and he always went out for a run in the morning through the woods. He always saw animals in the woods and he loved when he would see a big buck running beside him. One day Artemis was going to run 2 miles in the woods. He came to this house where Zeus the god of the Sky was living. Artemis knocked on the door and Zeus came out and Artemis couldn't believe it.

There have been many theories concerning what the universe looks like, how it became this way, and where it is going. The most popular theory that people hold today is that the universe began when all the matter ever present in the universe was contained in a tiny speck and that spec exploded. This is known as the Big Bang. This theory has developed a great deal since it was first conceptualized and continues to evolve today. Many different scientists have had a hand in this.

The Wisdom god, Woden, went out to the king of trolls…and demanded to know how order might triumph over chaos.

Once, Jupiter was entertaining a game for all the gods and goddesses. He threw a golden acorn down to Earth, entrusted it to a squirrel and promised that the first to win the trust of the squirrel and fetch the acorn would be named the goddess or god of animals. Immediately, everyone rushed to the squirrel, quarreling over who would get the acorn, as they stood at the bottom of his tree. While they fought, the squirrel looked for someone who was worthy of the acorn. When he saw Artemis, the only one not quarreling, he knew she was more than virtuous and tossed the acorn to her. The gods, realizing the squirrel’s plan a moment too late, could only watch Artemis return the golden acorn to Jupiter and be crowned the goddess of animals. After

A creation story is a supernatural story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe. Religion plays a significant role in the establishment of Creation for both the Native Americans and the Puritans. “The people known collectively as the Iroquois were made up of the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga nations.” (Cusick 21) “The Iroquois creation myth exists in some twenty-five versions.” (Cusick 22). However, there was no concrete indication from a Native American that coincides with the Iroquois’s belief as of how and when the creation of the world began until David Cusick, transcribed and translated an Iroquois cosmogonic myth in the nineteenth century. David Cusick became the first Native American to record on Atotarho. Grounded in nature the Iroquois religion portrays the natural foundations of the world and continue to believe that all things/people should live in harmony. The Iroquois believes that The Great Spirit would indirectly guide the lives of ordinary people and opposed that The Great Spirit and other forces of good were Evil Spirit and other lesser spirits responsible for disease and other misfortune. Corn, beans, and squash were referred to as the three sisters and thought of as deities or spiritual beings. The Iroquois believed that ordinary humans could not communicate directly with Great Spirit but could do so indirectly by burning tobacco, which carried their prayers to the lesser spirits

They separated in the space of the universe, but behind them new small stars and suns were left, which cooled off and became dense and dark. In that way the planets were created. “The Almighty conformed the matter to His laws and started to investigate and mold this world. As helpers to Him, and in order not to be alone, He created spirits from His spirit, but He did not reach His second goal. He still remained lonely, because His cre- ated spirits were the same as Himself, only divided into many frac- tions.