How The Gods Of Antiquity Were Used To Explain Creation
For thousands of years now, there have been countless myths passed down by word of mouth. These myths try to make sense of the unexplainable and the unknown. Gods of antiquity, from the myths of ancient societies, have provided ways for people to explain vague situations throughout history. Each civilization has its own apparent uniqueness. While some cultures use mythical beings that have not been seen by man, others are based on actual facts. One of the phenomena that many civilizations use their gods of antiquity to explain is the creation phenomenon. The creation myths through various gods of antiquity are distinctively different, but the end results are the same – the being of all things as we know it.
In the Greek culture, there are two main creation myths. Both stories began with a common mass called Chaos. Chaos was an "amorphous, gaping void encompassing the entire universe" (Greek 1). The first version of creation, told by Hesoid in his Theogony, is obscure. It......
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