Favourite creation theory

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2007-12-28 02:42am

Well...every religion has their own theory on creationism...

So out of all the theories...which is your personal favourite theory? You do not have to believe them of course...

Zablorg · Post by **Zablorg** » 2007-12-28 03:09am

I absolutely love the Norse one. The world being shaped out of a giants' corpse? AWSOME!

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2007-12-28 03:45am

The Mesopotamian version is much better. Tiamat made Apsu, then mated with him, bore the gods, and went to sleep. The gods started partying, and their noise disturbed Tiamat. Apsu wanted to shut them up, but Tiamat didn't want to hurt her children. Apsu went to war with them anyway, and they killed him. This pissed off Tiamat, and now she wanted to kill them all. After laying waste to heaven and slaughtering a host of gods, Marduk (in the Babylonian version) managed to slay her, and fashioned the world from her corpse. Her breasts became the mountains. He sliced opened her belly and that became the ocean. He pierced her eyes, and fluid running out became the Tigris and Euphrates.

That’s much more, well, mythic than the Nordic story.

Lusankya · Post by **Lusankya** » 2007-12-28 05:52am

That's easy.

Monkey wrote:"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heavens sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the World". Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!"

And then Monkey goes around annoying everyone, including the Jade Emperor, who is actually quite attractive. (In the TV series in any case mmmm... Jade Emperor.)

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2007-12-28 06:23am

Isn't that Sun Wukong?

Lusankya · Post by **Lusankya** » 2007-12-28 06:26am

Yeah. It brings back golden memories from my childhood.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-12-28 11:03am

Off to fantasy.

speaker-to-trolls · Post by **speaker-to-trolls** » 2007-12-28 02:21pm

I like the norse one because it has optimistic and progressive themes. The world begins with morally neutral, inhospitable forces, then Ymir, the first god/giant, emerges, and he's malevolent, but then the later generations of gods (Odin, Vili and Ve) kill him and out of that malevolent creature they create the world and all that is benevolent and good.

Though I guess the Babylonian one is pretty much the same but with a giant dragon instead of a giant. And that bit about the tears of Tiamat becoming the Tigris and Euphrates is cool.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2007-12-28 04:53pm

I have a preference for the Inuit and Northwest coast indian creation myths, typically because Raven is the one attributed with the creation of the world as we know it, either through diving to the bottom of the ocean and retrieving mud or sweet talking turtle into doing it. Bit of a change.

hongi · Post by **hongi** » 2007-12-29 08:41am

The Māori creation myth tells how heaven and earth were once joined as Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, lay together in a tight embrace. They had many children who lived in the darkness between them. The children wished to live in the light and so separated their unwilling parents. Ranginui and Papatuanuku continue to grieve for each other to this day. Rangi's tears fall as rain towards Papatuanuku to show how much he loves her. When mist rises from the forests, these are Papa's sighs as the warmth of her body yearns for him and continues to nurture mankind.

I'm a sucker for tragedy.

pieman3141 · Post by **pieman3141** » 2008-01-12 09:11pm

There are multiple Chinese ones. Pan-gu's corpse turning into the Earth seems similar with the Norse myth of Ymir. I'm not too sure how Nu-wa comes into being, though. The myths get pretty varied and vague during the Creation of Man, and the Flood eras.

Styphon · Post by **Styphon** » 2008-01-13 03:32pm

hongi wrote:
The Māori creation myth tells how heaven and earth were once joined as Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, lay together in a tight embrace. They had many children who lived in the darkness between them. The children wished to live in the light and so separated their unwilling parents. Ranginui and Papatuanuku continue to grieve for each other to this day. Rangi's tears fall as rain towards Papatuanuku to show how much he loves her. When mist rises from the forests, these are Papa's sighs as the warmth of her body yearns for him and continues to nurture mankind.
I'm a sucker for tragedy.

That sounds an AWFUL lot like the story of the Ancient Egyptian deities Geb and Nut.

The_Saint · Post by **The_Saint** » 2008-01-15 10:33pm

Think I'd pick Norse mythology although almost all of the Dreamtime stories (Australian Aboriginal creation mythology) sound like whoever wrote them was tripping on acid at the time.

pucky18 · Post by **pucky18** » 2008-01-21 12:05pm

Personally, I'm a fan of the Slavic/Eastern European creation myths.