Myth Creation

Almost every culture has what is known as a creation story. A creation story is usually of is a long narrative usually of spiritual or religious nature which explains the creation of the man, and the world which man in habits. There is a common theme found in creation stories which stories from any culture exhibit. Most Creation stories derive from an oral tradition and are later drafted into text. Two creation stories that stem from two different cultures are text in Genesis, and the Babylonian Creation Story. Both stories contain many similarities and differences.

Both the Babylonian Creation Story and the story of creation in Genesis start the same basic way. This is with an idea of nothing ness. Both stories depict the earth as a void or nothingness containing no shape. Each story beings with the all powerful figure or figures creation what we know as the earth and formation of different elements in nature. Though both stories dealt with a basic concept of formation and separation, the time frame of this was drastically different. In the Babylonian creation the formation of the earth was "Days on years", while in Genesis the formation was a mere 6 days seven nights. Another difference was the structure of what could be considered heaven. In the Babylonian creation story Heaven was in habited by not one single god but many which were there were other gods of the elements and also the main god had a son. In Genesis there was only one god. The god in Genesis created man or Adam, which he created in his likeness. The creation of atom almost parallels with the first born son begot of Nudimmud-Ea. The differences was the first created in the Babylonian creation Story was a god where as Adam was a man. The creation story in Genesis and the Babylonian creation story also differed in the view of early earth. In the Babylonian creation story with in earth and heaven there was a lot of discord, death, war and destruction. On the other hand in the book of Genesis, the world was peaceful and serene. There was no discord in heaven and man was at war with nothing. One more similarity in the stories was the role of man. In both stories the role was that of faithfulness and services to god.