Post by idek oO on Sept 16, 2010 14:06:31 GMT -5
Where did all of this come from? The trees, sky, ground, and humans didn't just pop out of no where. One of the most common beliefs is the “big bang theory”. Other than that most myths are some what extravagant such as the Eskimo, Greek and Chinese myths.
The eskimos believed that the first man lay inside “pods”. Four days passed. And on the fifth day, the man pushed with his feet through the bottom of the pod and fell to the ground/ when he got up, he had become a full grown man. He looked at everything and himself. Next a raven stood before him, and told him he was one of the many men he had grown on a vine, but he didn't expect anything would come out of them. The raven told him he would be a very lonely if he had no one, so with one swing of his wing. There appeared a woman. Soon there were children, then more...thus humanity.
As for the Greeks, the believed that the first creatures, had the appearance similar to that of humans, they were (Ouranos and Gaea.) they were the children of mother earth. They were monsters, just as we believed the earth was once inhabited by gigantic creatures, so did the Greeks. Though they did not think of them as huge lizards, they were much larger and stronger than humans but had similar features like them. They had the strength of a hurricane, it was natural to think of these creations as children of mother earth brought up from her dark depths when the world was young.
The chinese believed that in the beginning there was darkness everywhere, and chaos ruled. Within the darkness there formed an egg, and inside the egg the giant pangu came into being. For eons, safely inside the egg, pangu safely slept and grew. When he was grown to gigantic size he stretched his huge limbs and in so doing broke the egg. The lighter parts of the egg floated upwards to form the heavens and the denser parts sank downwards, to become the earth. And so was formed earth and sky. Pangu saw what had happened and he was pleased.but he feared that heaven and earth might melt together again, so he placed himself between them, his head holding up the sky and and his feet firmly upon the earth. Pangu continued to grow at a rate of ten feet a day for 18000 years, so increasing the distance between heaven and earth, until they seemed fixed and secure, 30000 miles apart. Now exhausted pangu wen back to sleep and never woke up, pangu died and his body went ot make the world and all its elements. The wind and clouds were formed from his breath, his voice was thunder and lightning, his eyes came from the moon and sun, his arms and legs became the 4 directions of the compass and his trunk became the mountains. His flesh turned into soil and the trees that grow on it, his blood into the rivers that flow and his veins into paths that men travel. His body hair became the grass and herbs, and his skin the same, while precious stones and minerals were formed from his bones and teeth. His sweat became dew and the hair of his head became the stars that trail throughout heaven. As for the parasites in his body these became the diverse race of humankind.
See? Thats not your typical story, as you can see from the Eskimo Greek and Chinese myths however they have their similarities such as men being in something and then pushing out and that helps form mankind.
The eskimos believed that the first man lay inside “pods”. Four days passed. And on the fifth day, the man pushed with his feet through the bottom of the pod and fell to the ground/ when he got up, he had become a full grown man. He looked at everything and himself. Next a raven stood before him, and told him he was one of the many men he had grown on a vine, but he didn't expect anything would come out of them. The raven told him he would be a very lonely if he had no one, so with one swing of his wing. There appeared a woman. Soon there were children, then more...thus humanity.
As for the Greeks, the believed that the first creatures, had the appearance similar to that of humans, they were (Ouranos and Gaea.) they were the children of mother earth. They were monsters, just as we believed the earth was once inhabited by gigantic creatures, so did the Greeks. Though they did not think of them as huge lizards, they were much larger and stronger than humans but had similar features like them. They had the strength of a hurricane, it was natural to think of these creations as children of mother earth brought up from her dark depths when the world was young.
The chinese believed that in the beginning there was darkness everywhere, and chaos ruled. Within the darkness there formed an egg, and inside the egg the giant pangu came into being. For eons, safely inside the egg, pangu safely slept and grew. When he was grown to gigantic size he stretched his huge limbs and in so doing broke the egg. The lighter parts of the egg floated upwards to form the heavens and the denser parts sank downwards, to become the earth. And so was formed earth and sky. Pangu saw what had happened and he was pleased.but he feared that heaven and earth might melt together again, so he placed himself between them, his head holding up the sky and and his feet firmly upon the earth. Pangu continued to grow at a rate of ten feet a day for 18000 years, so increasing the distance between heaven and earth, until they seemed fixed and secure, 30000 miles apart. Now exhausted pangu wen back to sleep and never woke up, pangu died and his body went ot make the world and all its elements. The wind and clouds were formed from his breath, his voice was thunder and lightning, his eyes came from the moon and sun, his arms and legs became the 4 directions of the compass and his trunk became the mountains. His flesh turned into soil and the trees that grow on it, his blood into the rivers that flow and his veins into paths that men travel. His body hair became the grass and herbs, and his skin the same, while precious stones and minerals were formed from his bones and teeth. His sweat became dew and the hair of his head became the stars that trail throughout heaven. As for the parasites in his body these became the diverse race of humankind.
See? Thats not your typical story, as you can see from the Eskimo Greek and Chinese myths however they have their similarities such as men being in something and then pushing out and that helps form mankind.