Creation Myths Research Paper

Creation myths are in every religion which is the story how the first people came to inhabit the world, there are many similarities and differences in the navajo, buddhist, and hindu creation myths.Religion shapes a person, family, or even a community; it makes each culture different from the rest. Creation myths were not written at the same time or place and that is what makes the similarities more interesting. These stories were told a long time again and are still believed to this day.

Navajo creation story has four worlds, the first world was a dark place where the spirit of life, the female lived on a black cloud and male lived on a white cloud. “The Great Coyote was formed in water and came to the First Man and First woman, telling them he was hatched from an egg and knew all the secrets of the water and the skies, second one named First Angry, who brought witchcraft into the world (Navajo)." The male and female climbed to the second world which had other living beings. The third world also know as the Yellow World, the holy people lived. In

Water and air then collected and became seas on the Earth, life did not yet exist. Phrom unfathomable ‘beings’ came next in what best can be described as another ‘dimension’ beyond and above heaven called Phrom Lok. Humans came from both the creatures of Hell supposedly Prohm which have eaten the dirt of the Earth.“In Buddhism it is said that existence relies on emptiness, which means that all phenomena have no ‘independent’ nature. Since all things are interconnected, not one of them can be said to have a permanent, substantial existence(Buddism).” Something that separates the buddhist creation myth from the Navajo creation myth is that the Buddhist believed that Phrom ate the earth's dirt where as the Navajo believe that there were four worlds and the first male and female traveled between the worlds before they built their