Types of Creation Myths
The world is created from nothing or chaos
What is ex nihilio?
The sky father of Greek mythology
Who is Ouranos? (Also will accept Uranus)
God speaks the world into existence
What is Genesis?
Izanagi and Izanami create the world and marriage.
Where is Japan?
She couldn't resist forbidden fruit
Who is Eve?
Earth mom and sky dad
What are world parents?
Norse giant whose brains become the clouds
Who is Ymir?
Three brothers slay a giant and make the world from the pieces
What is Norse creation?
Pandora opens a forbidden box.
Where is Greece?
Mother Earth according to the Greeks
Who is Gaia?
People crawl out from beneath the earth to a world already made
What is emergence?
He vomited the world
Who is Mbombo? (Bumba is also acceptable)
The first couple make a mistake a birth a leech baby
What is Izanagi and Izanami or What is Shinto creation
A demi god and his brothers catch a really big fish
Where is New Zealand?
Earth mom according to the Polynesian tradition
Who is Papa?
The world is made from the corpse of a giant
What is world parent?
The caretaker of the world according to the Acoma creation myth
Who is Tsichtinako?
A bird egg burns a Goddess's leg and creates land.
What is Finnish or Finnic Creation
The world is created 5 times.
Where is Mexico (Aztecs)
The creator of the world egg according to the Dogon People. (Modern DRC)
Who is Amma?
A bird or a lobster swims to the bottom of the ocean and retrieves the materials to build land.
What is earth diver?
A lotus grew from his navel according to the Hindu creation story
Who is Vishnu?
Six sets of twins form inside the world placenta
What is the Mande creation myth
People emerge from the Earth and begin their search for the center place
Where is Chaco Canyon/ New Mexico
She defied the commandment of her father and gave birth to the first man.
Who is Iatik?