List of creation

A creation (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions, and are found throughout human culture. A is usually regarded by those who subscribe to it as conveying profound truths, though not necessarily in a historical or literal sense. They are commonly, though not always, considered cosmogonical myths, that is, they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of or amorphousness.

Contents Basic type Creation from chaos diver Emergence Ex nihilo (out of nothing) World parent Divine twins Regional Africa Americas Mid America America Central Asia Indian subcontinent Pacific Islands/Oceanic In References

Basic type

Creation from chaos

Enûma Eliš (Babylonian creation myth) Genesis creation myth (, and ) Greek cosmogonical myth Jamshid Korean creation narratives Kumulipo Leviathan (Book of Job 38–41 creation myth) Mandé creation myth Pangu Raven in Creation Serer creation myth Sumerian creation myth Tungusic creation myth Unkulunkulu Väinämöinen

Earth diver

Ainu creation myth Cherokee creation myth creation myth Väinämöinen Yoruba creation myth Ob-Ugric creation myth

Emergence

Hopi creation myth Maya creation of the world myth Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo) Zuni creation myth

Ex nihilo (out of nothing)

Debate between sheep and grain Barton cylinder Ancient Egyptian creation myths Kabezya-Mpungu Māori myths Mbombo Ngai Popol Vuh

World parent

Coatlicue Enûma Eliš Greek cosmogonical myth Heliopolis creation myth Hiranyagarbha creation myth Kumulipo Rangi and Papa Völuspá

Divine twins

Proto-Indo-European creation myths

Regional

Africa

Ancient Egyptian creation myths Fon creation myth Kaang creation story (Bushmen) Kintu myth (Bugandan) Mandé creation myth Mbombo (Kuba, Bakuba or Bushongo/Boshongo) Ngai (Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai ) Serer creation myth (cosmogony of the Serer people of , and ) Unkulunkulu (Zulu) Yoruba creation

Americas

Mesoamerica (Aztec) Maya creation of the world myth Popol Vuh (Quiché Mayan)

Mid Anishinaabeg creation stories Cherokee creation myth Choctaw creation myth Creek creation myth Hopi creation myth Kuterastan (Plains Apache) Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo) Raven in Creation (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian) Zuni creation myth South America Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu (Chilean) Viracocha (Incan) Xolas (Chilean)

Asia

Central Asia Ergenekon Mongolian creation myth Tungusic creation myth

East Asia Ainu creation myth (Japan) Au Co (Vietnamese) Chinese creation myth Japanese creation myth Korean creation narratives Nüwa (Chinese) Pangu (Chinese)

Indian subcontinent Ajativada Buddhist cosmology Folk Hindu creation myth Hiranyagarbha creation (India) and non-creationism (India) Kanglei mythology (India) Mimamsa eternalism (India) Nyaya-Vaisheshika atomic theory (India) Samkhya-yoga theory (India) Sanamahi creation myth (India)

Europe

Slavic creation myth Theogony (Classical Greco-Roman) Väinämöinen (Finnish) Völuspá (Norse) Middle East

Debate between sheep and grain Enûma Eliš (Babylonian) Genesis creation myth (Hebrew) Islamic creation myth () Leviathan (Book of Job 38-41 creation myth) Mashya and Mashyana (Persian) Sumerian creation myth

Pacific Islands/Oceanic

Areop-Enap (Nauruan) Kumulipo (Hawaiian) Māori myths (Māori) Rangi and Papa (Māori) Sureq Galigo (Buginese)

In mythopoeia

In mythopoeia, an artificial mythology created by writers of prose or other fiction, traditional mythological themes and archetypes are integrated into fiction. Some works of mythopoeia also feature creation myths:

Ainulindalë from Tolkien's The Silmarillion

References

Leeming, David ; Leeming, Margaret Adams (1994). Encyclopedia of Creation Myths (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-739-3. Leeming, David Adams; Leeming, Margaret Adams (2009). A Dictionary of Creation Myths (http s://archive.org/details/dictionaryofcrea00leem) (Oxford Reference Online ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510275-8.

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