A Comparison of Two Creation Myths :: Compare Contrast, Creation Stories

mess religions and cultures be anything more than their floor? Why do we subscribe a concept of hi news report in the first place? Obviously history exists, but like the human ability to conceive of the future, history seems to be a rare phenomenon tied with our ability for language and the telling of stories. Whats even more fascinating is the human ability to make up a history or to tell a story, such as a creation myth, that seeks to explain something that has not been witnessed by anyone and does not have any role in finding food or creating shelter. We do not have a physical need to know how the priming came to be or to know how it is that we came to be here. Still, creation stories exist in almost entirely human cultures and, amazingly, many consider many of the identical elements. The question is, why? Is it a coincidence that so many of them share the same elements? By intenting at a comparison of both creation stories, we should be able to understand the meanin g of these similarities better.Just look at two creation stories side-by-side and you should easily see their similarities. Perhaps the easiest delegacy to do this would be to take one unknown creation story and compare it to one from ones own culture. Below is an sample of a Mongolian creation myth Long long past God descended to earth and made a man and a charr out of clay. Before returning to heaven to get some sacredwater with the power to animate anything, he ordered his dog and goose to protect the clay people from the devil. After God ascendedto heaven, the devil came to ill-treat the people. The dog and thecat protected them, though, thwarting the devils plan. Finally,the devil deceived them by bounteous a piece of meat to the dog anda bowl of milk to the cat. While the dog ate the flesh and the catlapped the milk, the devil urinated on the people and fled.When God returned with the holy water and discovered whathad happened, he was enraged. tongue-lashing the dog and cat forneglecting their duty, he forced the cat to lick the fuzz off the bodiesof the people whom the devil had defiled (God created humanswith hair all over their bodies). The cat licked off the hair everywheretake out their heads, armpits, and crotches, since the former