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( Picture of Hurus the ruler of the gods after Ra)



The Creation Myth. Humans have wanted to know where we come from since the beginning of time. It is possible that people created a religion in order to answer the question of where humans come from. Different creation myths created by different humans across the globe would all be different. But different religions form the same region would have similar creation myths or stories. A religion like Christianity which is, monotheism would seem totally different from an ancient religion like Egyptian which is polytheism but they do. Their creation myths are very similar both starting out with a dark void and only water. As the creation myth procceds in the bible “god” creates the world in seven days. The main god in Egyptian myth “Ra” also creates the world in seven days. Both of these religions started in the same area as well as the religion from Nigeria Efik. Christianity is the largest religion in the world. With more than 2.1 billion followers, Christianity has token over most of the world. Christianity is a monotheistic religion and originated in Israel. Christianity went from Africa into Europe where it was spread out across the world as Europe invaded most of the world. One of its primary religious text of Christianity is the bible. According to the bible in the beginning there was nothing only water and god came and created light. Then on the second day go created the sky. On the third day he created the earth itself with vegetation and plant life. On the fourth day god created two lights, the moon and the sun. The sun would represent the day and then moon representing the night. On the fifth day god made animals of every kind and on the sixth he made humans in his own image. The seventh day he rested. God made two humans originally, Adam and Eve. God gave them certain instructions on what to eat and what to do in order to live in the garden of Eden. The two humans disobeyed eating from a forbidden tree and thus making bringing sin into the world. The Egyptian creation myth also lasts over several days as their main god RA is born from chaos in a void with only water and darkness. Ra being the sun god created light for the world on the first day. On the second day Ra created the air and moisture gods Shu and his wife tefnut. On the third day just like Christianity, Ra created the earth god Geb, and the sky goddess Nut forming the physical universe. On the fourth day the calendar was created and on the fifth sixth and seventh day one of the gods that Ra created, Khnum created humans and animals designing how every living creatures body would work. Even though the ancient gods of Egypt aren’t worshipped today the religion was very successful when Egypt was powerful. The religion has gods to explain everything in religion. The sun, moon, the air, the water everything that the Egyptians saw was explained by religion. Unlike Christianity which has one god who created everything and controls everything, the Egyptian myths have gods for every thing. The Egyptian religion was before Christianity, and Egypt did have slaves that left supposedly with mosses to go in to Israel where Christianity began. It is possible that the people of Israel took some parts of the Egyptian creation myth and put it into Christianity. According to ( waddell 1846 ) the religion of efik have practices that resemble the Jewish torah. Their creation myth starts off with a god named abasi who creates the universe. His wife atai persuaded him to create humans on the earth. Abasi agreed to it but had only one rule, that the two humans could not mate but just like Christianity the humans disobeyed and mated. Abasi was enraged so he told his wife to unleash death and darkness onto the earth, which is very similar to sin being unleashed onto the earth. (picture of abasi) In conclusion the religions all have similarities in their creation myth and a lot of their other myths. The fact that they are all from the same region could be the reason why they all have the similar creation myths but it could also be people moving around mixing up religions in Africa and making new stories. Religion tells many stories about life and the creation myth is important because its about how starts off life.

( Jesus christ)