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.