Similarities in the Myths

Throughout the three days listening to speeches about different creation myths, I found that a lot of them started about the same. Probably the biggest similarity that stood out was the fact that most of them started put with nothing. And then after that the kinda had their own little thing like the god thought himself into being or he was sitting there thinking and got bored and started to make the universe. Another big one was water. Water seemed to have a real important role in a lot of different myths. The Egyptians there was only water, I also heard a lot of the god creating an animal to swim down to the bottom to get a little dirt to start creating land. I find it quite odd and interesting that there are a lot of similarities in all of these different creation myths.

Egyptian creation myth

Here is the Egyptian Creation Myth in case anybody forgot

 Day One Creation of light 

 In the beginning there was only water, a chaos of churning, bubbling water, this the Egyptians called Nu or Nun. It was out of Nu that everything began. 
- Then the sun god Ra emerged out of primeval chaos, he came out of a blue giant lotus flower that appeared on the surface of the water.  Ra gave light to the universe

Day Two Creation of air and moisture - Ra created the air god Shuand his wife Tefnut the goddess of moisture,

Day Three Creation of Earth and Sky - Shu and Tefnut gave birth to the sky- goddess Nut and the earth god Geb, and so the physical universe was created. 
Ra seems to rest while his sons and daughters are completing the task of creation, this is in accordance with the polytheistic beliefs of ancient Egyptians

Day Four Creation of Calendar - Against Ra's orders, Geb and Nutmarried. Ra was incensed and ordered Shu to separate them, which he did. But Nut was already pregnant, although unable to give birth as Ra had decreed she could not give birth in any month of any year. 

Thoth, the god of learning, decided to help her and gambling with the moon for extra light, was able to add five extra days to the 360-day calendar. On those five days Nut gave birth to Osiris, Horus the Elder, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys successively.  Even the heavenly bodies are seen as serving human needs, by providing the basis for a calendar.

Day Five, Six, Seven  Creation of Life - Khnum created the living creatures on his potter's wheel. 

 He modeled the animals, plants and people of the earth. 
 A detailed description of how he created humans is found atEsna Temple. It describes how he orders the bloodstream to cover the bones, and makes the skin enclose the body. He then makes the respiratory system and the food digestion. 
 In contrast with the Hebrew mythology, the work of Khnumwas seen as a continuous task, he was seen as a deity sitting on his potter's wheel constantly working in creating life.