Comparison Of Genesis And Creation Myth

Ever wonder how were were all created? Whether it’s a scientific reason or just a belief it seems that everyone all around the world has a different opinion when it comes to our creation story. The creation myth of Genesis and the creation myth of Egypt are both similar in many ways, but different as well.

The creation myth in Genesis starts out with God who’s hovering over an empty, watery void, and creates the world by speaking into the darkness and calling into it and that makes it become light, sky, land, vegetation, and living creatures over the course of six days. As the days go on God declares his intentions to make a human being, but in his own resemblance. This would be considered the creation of humankind. God creates a man out of

Ancient Egyptian creation myths are the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. Like other creation myths, Egyptian myth is complex and offers several versions of how the world came to be. The ancient Egyptians believed that the basic principles of life, nature and society were determined by the gods at the creation of the world. It all began with the first High God in the primeval waters. The creation myth is recounted in the sacred hieroglyphic writings found on pyramids, temples, tombs and sheets of papyrus. These writings describe how the earth was created out of chaos by the god Atum. The earth was seen as a sacred landscape, a reflection of the sky world where the gods resided. The creation of the universe took place over a long period of time when the gods lived on earth and established kingdoms based on the principles of fairness. When the gods left the Earth to live in the sky world, the pharaohs inherited the right to rule. Going back to the the Pyramid Texts, tomb wall decorations and writings, dating back to the Old Kingdom, the period in the third millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization, it gave us most of our information regarding early Egyptian creation myths. These myths also form the earliest religious compilations in the world. The ancient Egyptians had many creator gods and associated legends. Thus the

The number one things you can see as a differentiator is God where in Genesis there’s only one almighty God while in the Egyptian myth there is more than one God that plays an influence to the world and when there’s more than one God there’s bound to be conflicts. Also with Genesis God created humankind so they can live their own life, while in Egypt mankind is more known to do all the hard work and live life as slaves. God in Genesis isn’t necessarily feared, but has the power to give and take, while on the contrary there’s a admiration with all the Gods where they are seen as