A Comparison of Two Creation Myths :: Compare Contrast, Creation Stories

Can religions and cultures be anything more than their history? Why do we confirm a concept of history in the first place? Obviously history exists, but like the human ability to conceive of the future, history seems to be a rare phenomenon tied with our ability for language and the telling of stories. Whats even more fascinating is the human ability to make up a history or to tell a story, such as a knowledgeability myth, that seeks to explain something that has not been witnessed by anyone and does not have any usage in finding food or creating shelter. We do not have a physical need to fare how the earth came to be or to know how it is that we came to be here. Still, creation stories exist in almost all human cultures and, amazingly, many share many of the same elements. The question is, why? Is it a affinity that so many of them share the same elements? By looking at a comparison of two creation stories, we should be able to understand the center of these similarities better.Just look at two creation stories side-by-side and you should easily see their similarities. Perhaps the easiest way to do this would be to take one unknown creation story and compare it to one from ones own culture. Below is an example of a Mongolian creation myth Long long ago God descended to earth and made a man and awoman out of clay. Before returning to heaven to get some holy w ingestr with the power to animate anything, he ordered his dog and chuck to protect the clay people from the devil. After God ascendedto heaven, the devil came to harm the people. The dog and thecat protected them, though, thwarting the devils plan. Finally,the devil deceived them by giving a piece of meat to the dog anda bowl of milk to the cat. While the dog ate the flesh and the catlapped the milk, the devil urinated on the people and fled.When God returned with the holy water and discovered whathad happened, he was enraged. Scolding the dog and cat forneglecting their duty, he labored the cat to lick the tomentum cerebri off the bodiesof the people whom the devil had defiled (God created humanswith hair all over their bodies). The cat licked off the hair everywhereexcept their heads, armpits, and crotches, since the former