Creation stories

• Common elements
• Creation myths, varieties of
• Creation links
• African creation stories:
  • Four African creation stories
  • More African creation stories
  • Egypt: An Egyptian story of creation is that the Chaos Goose and the Chaos Gander produced an egg that was the sun, Ra (Re). The gander was identified with Geb, the earth god.Source: “The Symbolism of the Swan and the Goose,” by Edward A. Armstrong. Folklore, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 54-58.
  • Koi San creation myth
  • North Africa: the first human beings
  • Shilluk creation story
  • Vodun creation story
  • Yoruba creation story (Flash slide show)
• Asian creation stories:
  • Babylonian Creatio, Eneuma Elish (another version)
  • Babylonian Creation again
  • Jewish creation (again)
  • Hindu creation story
  • Creation stories from Japan and Korea
  • Japanese creation story (another version) (yet another version)
  • Ainu creation story (Japan)
  • Chinese creation story
  • China (Miao people)
  • Sikh creation story
• Amerindian  creation stories:
  • Algonquin
  • Apache (another version)
  • Aztec
  • Blackfoot: the order of birth and death
  • Chelan
  • Cherokee (another version)
  • Cheyenne: origin of buffalo
  • Chinook
  • Choctaw (another version)
  • Chumash
  • Comanche
  • Creek: origin of people; origin of the earth
  • Dakota
  • Digueno
  • Hopi
  • Huron
  • Inca (Flash slide show)
  • Inuit (another version [Flash slide show])
  • Iroquois (another version) (yet another version)
  • Kiowa
  • Lakota
  • Maya (another version) (another version [Flash slide show])
  • Micmac (Mik’maq)
  • Miwok
  • Navajo
  • Pima
  • Salish
  • Seneca: how people came to the world
  • Yokut (another version)
  • See also American Indian literature and Traditional Stories
• European creation stories:
  • Greece (see also Bullfinch’s Mythology); Creation I (explanation); Creation of Man
  • Greece and Rome
  • Norway (another version)
  • Scandinavia
  • Hungary
• Australian & Pacific creation stories:
  • Creation of Hawaii
  • Creation of Tahiti
  • Australia: the Dreamtime (another version)
  • Maori
  • Creation of the Philippines
  • Creation of Singapore
• Other creation story slide shows
• More creation myths on Wikipedia