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Comparing The Elohim And Gaia Creation Myths

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The Elohim and Gaia creation myths have both depicted light and darkness. The Elohim spoke, "Let there be light, and there was the light that made day different from night” (34). The Gaia story mentions, “Erebos, the darkness, and Nyx, the night. Erebos and Nyx made love…and Hemera, the day” (46). These two myths also depicts the creation of these beings on earth in a sequence such as in the Gaia myth “In the beginning, there was Chaos, the abyss…Next came Tartaros, the depth in the Earth where condemned dead souls go to their punishment, and Eros, the love that overwhelms bodies and minds” (46) and so on. They all came one after another not at one time. In The Elohim myth also shows they designed the beings on earth step by step. “"Let there be a dome to separate the heavens from the waters below, and there were the heavens”(34). …show more content…

This proves that in the Elohim and Gaia creation stories, the Earth’s aspects came in a particular order. In my opinion (going off base with the book), something the Gaia creation and The Elohim creation is number of Gods. In the Hebrew story there was only one God who designed everything on earth, but for the sake of this essay I’ll have to agree The Elohim was many deities which is another similarity with the Greek myth. In Greek story there was gods for every aspect of Earth such as; “In the beginning, there was Chaos…Next came Tartaros, the depth in the Earth where condemned dead souls go to their punishment” (46). There is a god for the sea, Poseidon, the Earth god, Gaia, king of the gods, Zeus, God of the underworld, Hades etc. Another thing that separates these two stories is how they divide things

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When both gods imagined “Earth” land formed from the darkness. They thought of trees, plants, mountains and valleys, water and sky. All of which appeared from the darkness. Thus Earth was formed.

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Between “The Babylonian Creation Epic” and “Theogony” there are many similarities and differences that can be found. One similarity between these two is the idea of two beings, Tiamat and Apsu (fresh and salt water) and Gaia and Ouranos (earth and sky) who couple together and give birth to the first gods. In Gaia and Ouranos’s case, these ‘gods’ are called Titans. In the Babylonian story Marduk, a son of the gods, kills Tiamat and creates humankind from the blood of one of the gods who stood on her side. Whereas in “Theogony” Ouranos is hated by all of his children and ends up castrated by his son Kronos.

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Even though both stories do end up with the creation of earth the way they got there is a bit different. In Genesis it is stated that only one God created all of life but in Enuma Elish it was said that there were multiple gods whom have worked with individual jobs. In the Cosmogony, the first part of Enuma Elish that described the creation of the universe, Apsu and Tiamat were the only two gods who existed in the beginning of the story but were only set of water. The gods begin to form and create the earth but made a disturbance while doing so which had upset Apsu, so he tried to destroy them but later is stoped by

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-material mostly from Hesiod- only chaos with unbroken darkness, two born here children of Chaos Night Erebus from darkness of death Love - with its birth, order +beauty banished blinded confusion love created light +companion radiant day then creation of earth, it just happened *vaguely personified* began to personify more with coming of love + light : to set scene fir human appernce First creature Gaea + Ouranos - children of moth earth + father heaven, monsters, like men yet unhuman Cyclops (wheel-eyed) - 3 creatures, one enormous eye in middle of forehead, gigantic, Titans - not purely destructive though sons of father heavan he hated the monster resembling ones and imprisoned by him in a secret place on earth,

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In the beginning of the Egyptian creation story, there is only the dark water of chaos. In the creation story of Enuma Elish, it also begins with chaotic waters, Apsu the fresh water, and Tiamat the salt water. The water at the beginning of the Egyptian creation story was described as chaotic, and in the Greek creation story at the beginning there was only chaos. There is also a connection between the Egyptian creation story and Genesis because at the beginning of both there was only water; no land had been created yet. There are also similarities between the Egyptian version and the other creation story regarding the separation between the earth and the sky.

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There are many parallels between the account of Popul Vuh and the book of Genesis which include the elements of earthly creation, a fall by temptation, and human creation The actual account of biblical creation of the earth is noted in Genesis 1. The Bible tells its readers that the world was created in six days, and on the seventh day, God rested from his work because it was good. Within those six days, God created light and dark, sky, land, the galaxy, the sea and flying creatures, and finally land animals and man.

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The Bible describes it; ‘….the earth was without form and void… and darkness was upon the face of the deep’ (NKJVGenesis 1:2) and a similar claim is made in Hesiod’s Theogony which alleges that in the beginning there was only confusion of Chaos and unbroken darkness.

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Hera got jealous and punished men who were unfaithful. Babylonians included this myth as well, in the Enuma Elish, which included many different imperfect gods. At first there was only two creators, Apsu and Tiamat, then they had children. Apsu’s and Tiamat’s children were Lahmu and Lahamu, which joined, and had their own offspring; which sprang off to be more and more gods. Ea and his brothers were a group of gods, who would go over the waters all the time, which happened to be very noisy.

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