Religious Beliefs and Gods Essay

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Creation Myths

The author of this report has been charged with describing and listing the facets of at least two major creation myths that have existed or do exist in modern culture. Indeed, the course of human history and culture has led to the presentation and belief in multiple creation theories and religious beliefs. Many people point to the Bible and Genesis or Job in particular when it comes to such theories. However, there are a number of others and two of those non-Biblical mythology arcs will be the focus of this report. While there are common threads and facets of many of the different creation myths, they each stand on their own in important ways.

The first creation myth that will be covered in this report is that of the Enuma Elish, which emanated from the Babylonians. Those that have heard reference to the Epic of Gilgamesh were being told of part of this dogma. While the Babylonian account of creation is technically separate from the Christian Bible, it has been admitted and proven that the two are highly related in terms of what they have in common and whether one draws from the other. Leviathan and the book of Job share a similar relationship.

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Another way in which Enuma Elish is referred to beyond being Babylonian would be the Mesopatamian myths. Within this mythology, there are gods for each town. Not unlike the Christian account of creation, the world begins in a formless state of nothingness. The "maker" within the Enuma Elish is known as Tiamat. Apsu is described as the "begetter." Apsu is the male and represents the "sweet" waters. Tiamat, on the other hand, represents the salt waters. This would correlate with the waters of the Tigres and Euphrates, which is the ostensible cradle of civilization for several creation myths and this would include the Enuma Elish. Upon review of the Enuma Elish, there is no explicit mention of any destroying force...just the creating one. There is ostensibly a focus on the earth, the water and so forth in that there is a correlation of the natural elements and the gods included in creating and coalescing the same, as partially mentioned a few sentences ago (GVSU, 2016).

The other main creation myth that will be covered in this report is that of the ancient Egyptians. Rather than being localized to a single or small group of Gods, Egyptions actually had a good number of them.….....

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