please share your favorite creation myths here

[ima_sinnic]

I'm sick and tired of the 6-day, Adam's-rib myth and would like to hear some other stories. My knowledge of other culture's myths is not that great (because of my judeo-xtian upbringing) and I'd like to know more. I suspect the stoy in Genesis is just one of thousands.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. Greek mythology is pretty cool

[MsAnthropy]

2. I heard a Hopi creation story once

that God is the master baker and he baked up a man but it was underdone and that turned out to be the white man, so he baked up another man and it was overdone and that turned out to be the black man, and then he baked another man and it came out just right and that turned out to be the Hopi. That's always made me smile.

[MatrixEscape]

3. I like Alan Watts' story to children ...

What to Tell Children About God
by Alan Watts

http://www.modernpaths.com/library/articlesfaith/articles/f_lib_article_aw_children.html

Adults can enjoy and get something out of it too ;)

[da_chimperor]

4. Norse mythology: It starts with a giant and a cow made from fire and ice

and then gets more interesting. Check it out.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/myth.cgi/Creation.html

[rock]

5. The Great Snakleseezher

sneezed us out into the universe. And we await the coming of the great white handkerchief.

[LisaLynne]

6. Here's a cool site ...

with a lot of them! :)

http://mythicjourneys.org/bigmyth/

[billyskank]

7. Here's my favourite

All universes emanate from the pores of Karanodakashayi Maha-Vishnu, who lies down in the Causal Ocean.

Vishnu enters each individual universe as Garbodakashayi Maha-Vishnu, and from His navel grows a lotus flower. In that lotus flower is born Brahmaji, the first living being in the universe.

At first Brahmaji does not know who he is, or what to do. He climbs down the stem of his lotus flower, right to the bottom, but still cannot work out his situation.

He climbs back up and sits in his lotus. Then the Lord initiates him into the chanting of the gayatri mantra, and Brahmaji understands how to create. Brahmaji creates the universe; the planets, the oceans, rivers and continents; all the plants and animals and human beings.

Then the Lord glances over the material creation, and by His glance the individual jivas (souls) are injected into all their bodies; humans, animals, fish, plants, trees and creepers. The Lord also dwells in each of their hearts alongside them as Kshirodakasayi Maha-Vishnu, the Supersoul.

Hows that?

[Maple]

8. Actually we're the Sim World creation

of a grade 3 science class on Andromeda.

[bowens43]

9. Last- Thursdayism

Last- Thursdayism
(np) 1. The assertion that all existence sprang into being this past Thursday, with all memories of sentient beings created in situ.

[sangh0]

10. Trickster the Rabbit

According to the legend, the universe is created from his unusual case of diarrhea

[CornField]

11. This probably isn't the correct spot

But what I find most telling about creation stories is that the only one in which the female is the villian (or conspires with the villian) is the Christian story.

Of course, my personal feeling is that was done on purpose -- to further dispel the Earth religions which saw women as at least equal to, if not above, man.