Chloe Wolk
Motif Essay
Mythology
11 April 2023 Creation Motif
Many people have a curiosity about creation. Why is each creation so different but so much the same? Here are some things I found interesting.The definition of mythology is a collection of myths belonging to a particular religion or cultural tradition. People all around the world believe or don't believe in myth. Mythology is just for entertainment, it's just to give a reader something fun and creative to talk about. In many creations the story talks about how humans were created, what gods ruled, but most of all how it would protect the earth from crumbling apart.
Multiple Creators
The first Motif I'm going to talk about is the gods and how sometimes there are more than one. In the Chinese creation Pan-Gu was hatched from an egg separating chaos into earth and sky. As years went by Pan-Gu died and his skull became the top of the sky and his breath became the wind and clouds, one eye became the sun and the other the moon. Pan-Gu made mountains and flooded waters,roads and land all from his body. The half dragon Nuwa was born after Pan-Gu died from the part of yin and yang that was separated into earth and the sky and she was the one who decided to create humans. Both were creators and gods but at different times.
Human creation
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In a lot of theses creations some will come to find out that the humans are made out of organic materials such as, sand,mud,wood,trees and so on, An example of this is in the Norse creation Odin one of the gods found two fallen trees an ash and elm he lifted them from the mud and formed the first man and women from them some humans had breathe of life and others didn't in this case odin did breathe life into the humans he also gave the reason and feelings, hearing and sight. Now do some really think that it only took one try to get it right? The answer is No, sometimes it took up to 3 to get it