How Are Creation Myths Created

How do you define creation? Creation is the “act of producing or the cause to exist” (Dictionary, 2012, pg.1). There are many different answers depending on the part of the world u were raised in and the culture you are part of. One of the biggest mysteries that scientists are still faced with today is how the world was created. Every culture in the world has their own idea of how the world was created. The sky, earth and underworld are all represented through the creation myths. Creation myths indicate whether the creators were male or female, also depicting the importance of their gender.

These myths exemplify creation and the steps taken to establish it. They describe destruction and the destroyers that cause it. Each culture
This story starts off with a cow licking a way mountains of ice from two beings, which creates the god Buri and his goddess wife (Distant Train, Inc., 2011). Buri and wife had a son named Bor and his son was named Odin, who became the king of all the gods. Ymir was the evil giant. One day Odin and the other gods planned to kill Ymir. None of them wanted to follow his evil ways anymore. Ymir’s body became the earth, his flesh became the land and, his blood became the sea, his hair became the trees, and his bones became the mountains (Distance Train, Inc., 2011). Odin created the moon an sun by collecting sparks from Muspell and placing them in the sky. Yggdrasil, the largest tree, grew in the center of the world. It later became known as the tree of life. “Its roots penetrated into the bottom of creation and its leaves reached the very top of the sky” (Distant Train, Inc., 2011). Satisfied with his creation, Odin named the new world, Midgard. But he still needed people to take care of it. Odin found two fallen trees and ash and created the first man and woman. Odin breathed life into them and gave them feelings, reasoning, hearing, and sight (Distant Train, Inc., 2011). Odin named the woman Embla, and the man Ask, from them came the whole human race (Distant Train, Inc., 2011). This story is very similar to the Genesis myth of Adam and
We are faced with divine drama of the beginning of creation that can only be understood by faith in the Genesis creation. Questions arise from this. How long did it really take? Were God’s days the same as ours or longer? These questions may never be answered and Genesis does not focus on them. Then God took Adam and Eve to the Garden of Eden to take care of it, and told them to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth(Genesis 1:28). The story continues with the devil, also known as the serpent, tricking Eve into eating from the forbidden tree and her convincing Adam to eat it also. They went against God and he expelled them from the Garden of Eden and forced them to labor over the earth.

The stars, the moon, and the sun help the Viking culture navigate through the ocean and mountains that exist in their world. These things of the natural world and their origin are explained in the Norse creation story. “The Norse creation myth not only describes the creation of the world the Vikings would have seen every day, but also the ones they didn’t: whole other worlds populated by gods, trolls, dwarves, and spirits” (Smoop, 2013, para.2). The Norse creation myth show the violent lives the Vikings lived. From murder and bloodshed comes beauty and