Blog - Written by askegg on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 15:25 - 0 Comments
Choose your creation myth
There are a few people here (we know who you are) who believe an invisible super natural being that exists outside of space and time created the universe and everything in it. In itself this is a fine hypothesis, but there is no evidence to support it all at (for example, matter can neither be created nor destroyed).
In any case, if we are to accept creation as a valid hypothesis, then which creation story should we belief? There seem to be a number to choose from:
- The Bakuba account of demiurg
- The Maasai of Kenya
- The Mandinka people of southern Mali
- Voodoos Damballah (Sky-serpent loa and wise and loving Father archetype)
- The Yoruba creator called Olorun
- Unkulunkulu, the Zulu creator
- The Ainu people of Hokkaidō creation myth
- Hmong creation myth
- The Korean JoMulJu
- The Mansi people of Siberia creation myth
- Buddha Sakyamuni creation myth
- The Orok people of Sakhali creation myth
- The god Izanagi and goddess Izanami
- The first Division-Genesis in Tao Te Ching and partially in I Ching
- Ancient Finns creation myth
- The ancient Greek creation story
- The Voluspa Norse creation myth
- The Buddhist Trimurti of Brahma (the Creator) creation myth
- The Sikh Scripture, Sri Guru Granth Sahib (SGGS) creation myth
- Surat Shabda Yoga creation myth
- The Babylonian creation myth
- The Ennead creation myth
- The Ogdoad creation myth
- In Hermeticism creation myth
- The Muslim creation story found in the Qur’an.
- Jews and Christians creation myth
- Mandaeism creation myth
- The Zoroastrian story of creation
- Mesopotamian creation myth
- Kiowa Apache creation myth
- The Coatlique creation myth
- Cherokee creation myth
- Choctaw creation myth
- The Digueno creation
- Hopi creation myth
- Inuit Indian creation myth
- Iroquois creation myth
- Lakota creation myth
- Maidu creation myth
- Navajo mythology
- Seminole creation myth
- Tlingit creation myth
- Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime
- Polynesian creation myth
- Hawaiian Māui and Kumulipo creation myths
- The Māori creation myth
- Tagalog creation myth
- The Incan creation myth
- The Maya of Mesoamerica creation myth recounted in the book “Popol Vuh”
- Mormonism creation myth
- Raëlism creation myth
- Scientologists creation myth
To my mind, all of these have exactly the same evidence supporting them – none.
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