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Creation Myths My mythology class has been reading and learning about most of the creation myths. A creation myth is how the earth began and
how humans first came to inhabit it. Also, we have reviewed the motifs of the myths. A motif is like a pattern of the similar situations happening
throughout the myths. The three motifs I thought that were the most common were that most had a single creator, people were created from
organic material, and the battles that went on between most of the gods.
Most myths had a single creator In my opinion I think that if there were more than two creators then that would be too much power. A creator is
the one that puts the earth together and forms the first humans on earth. Quite a few creation myth stories had only one god that created
everything. For example, the Babylonian had one creator which was Marduk, the Hindu had one creator which was Prajapati, the Inuit had a
single creator which was Raven, the Chinese said there was only one and his name was Pan...show more content...
Some of the battles were bigger than others but I thought that the battles were important to use as a motif. In the Hindu creation there was a
disagreement of the choices Prajapati was making with his daughter. The other gods got very angry with Prajapati. For revenge the gods created
a monster named Rudra, and it haunted Prajapati. Once the monstrous creature found him, he shot him with an arrow and killed him. In the
Norse creation Odin was the god that created the humans, but the gods did not accept how he was making them. Ymir's sisters especially did not
agree with Odin's idea so they planned to get revenge on Odin. The sisters gathered at the foot of the Yggdrasil and carved lines into it, the lines
represented human lives and the twist and turns that humans go through. Humans would never be as powerful, not even Odin could fix the
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Essay On Creation Myths

  • 1. Essay On Creation Myths Creation Myths My mythology class has been reading and learning about most of the creation myths. A creation myth is how the earth began and how humans first came to inhabit it. Also, we have reviewed the motifs of the myths. A motif is like a pattern of the similar situations happening throughout the myths. The three motifs I thought that were the most common were that most had a single creator, people were created from organic material, and the battles that went on between most of the gods. Most myths had a single creator In my opinion I think that if there were more than two creators then that would be too much power. A creator is the one that puts the earth together and forms the first humans on earth. Quite a few creation myth stories had only one god that created everything. For example, the Babylonian had one creator which was Marduk, the Hindu had one creator which was Prajapati, the Inuit had a single creator which was Raven, the Chinese said there was only one and his name was Pan...show more content... Some of the battles were bigger than others but I thought that the battles were important to use as a motif. In the Hindu creation there was a disagreement of the choices Prajapati was making with his daughter. The other gods got very angry with Prajapati. For revenge the gods created a monster named Rudra, and it haunted Prajapati. Once the monstrous creature found him, he shot him with an arrow and killed him. In the Norse creation Odin was the god that created the humans, but the gods did not accept how he was making them. Ymir's sisters especially did not agree with Odin's idea so they planned to get revenge on Odin. The sisters gathered at the foot of the Yggdrasil and carved lines into it, the lines represented human lives and the twist and turns that humans go through. Humans would never be as powerful, not even Odin could fix the Get more content on HelpWriting.net