Analysis: The Hebrew Creation Myth
In the Hebrew creation myth, we are presented with the idea, that God created the earth in seven days. It was all him, the divine creator, not faulty, but great and absolute. Ever since I was confronted with what was supposed to be my myth of creation, I was never quite happy with it. I found the idea of an earth created by someone rather than someone created by the earth to be against nature. It spoke against what I believed the earth to be. Divine, wonderful and distinctively itself. I went on searching, for a creation myth as great as the name itself, I came across quite a few stories, some, however, more pleasing than others. One speaks of gods failures, another of mother nature being born from the water, the last one telling us about
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Celtic creation Myth:
While the Celts never wrote down any of their creation stories, there is one vastly famous tale of the how the population on earth came to be. They believed the earth to have existed forever, with only light and dark, sea and land. Mother earth, Eiocha in Celtic, was born when water embraced land for the first time, a wave breaking on shore, it is said that she was born from the white foam that took shape for the first time that day. Eichoa dragged herself on land, there to then walk into a forest of oak trees, where strange plants grew upon the oak, in complete symbiosis with the trees. These plants carried white berries of which Eiocha ate, the seeds of said berries then flourishing in Eiocha’s womb, and so it came that mother earth was impregnated by nature. As time had gone by and it was time for her to give birth, she was in so much pain that she hurled a piece of oat bark into the ocean, which resulted in the creation of giants, who then populated the waters. Cernunnos was born, he felt lonely and therefore laid with his mother creating five gods in the process of which one created man from the wood of the oak tree, one, animals of bark, one, armour of sprouts growing upon the grand oak tree, one, a harp, one, lightning, and they rejoiced, no longer were they lonely, no longer were they bored, they had each other, they were being
Celtic creation Myth:
While the Celts never wrote down any of their creation stories, there is one vastly famous tale of the how the population on earth came to be. They believed the earth to have existed forever, with only light and dark, sea and land. Mother earth, Eiocha in Celtic, was born when water embraced land for the first time, a wave breaking on shore, it is said that she was born from the white foam that took shape for the first time that day. Eichoa dragged herself on land, there to then walk into a forest of oak trees, where strange plants grew upon the oak, in complete symbiosis with the trees. These plants carried white berries of which Eiocha ate, the seeds of said berries then flourishing in Eiocha’s womb, and so it came that mother earth was impregnated by nature. As time had gone by and it was time for her to give birth, she was in so much pain that she hurled a piece of oat bark into the ocean, which resulted in the creation of giants, who then populated the waters. Cernunnos was born, he felt lonely and therefore laid with his mother creating five gods in the process of which one created man from the wood of the oak tree, one, animals of bark, one, armour of sprouts growing upon the grand oak tree, one, a harp, one, lightning, and they rejoiced, no longer were they lonely, no longer were they bored, they had each other, they were being