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Stories of how the world and mankind came to be, from chaos, a primordial soup, an egg, or whatever; that is, Creation myths.
Creation Myths - Summaries of Various Cosmogonies
Stories of how the world and mankind came to be, from chaos, a primordial soup, an egg, or whatever; that is, Creation myths.
Norse Mythology on the Creation of the World
What the ancient Norse wrote about the Creation of the world in their mythology.
Legends of the Jews - Creation of the World in Seven Days
"Bible Times and Characters from the Creation to Jacob," from The Legends of the Jews, by Louis Ginzberg (1909).
Creation Myths: Cosmogonies - Origins of the Gods
Origins of the anthropomorphic Olympian deities from more primeval creatures.
Creation Myths From Around the World
Mythological stories about the creation of the world from various cultures, with links to outsides sites.
Common Themes: Creation Myths
From Mything Links, a collection of essays on creation myths and the stories themselves.
Ophelia - Creation Myths
Shillluk (African), Sikh, Tahitian, Vodun, and Yokut creation myths.
Umbriel - Creation Myths
Hopi, Inuit, and Japanese creation myths.
Ariel - Chinese Creation Myths
Chinese creation myths from "Morgana's Observatory."
Aztec Creation Myth
Aztec creation story of how Coatlique got pregnant by an obsidian knife through which she produced the moon and stars.
Chinese creation myths
Pan Gu took an ax to break forth from his confinement in a cosmic egg. When he died he became the wind, mountains, land, and rushing waters.
Oberon - Creation Myths
Hungarian, Iroquois, Judaeo-Christian, and Salish creation myths.
Miranda
African, Ainu, Apache, Australian Dreamtime, Aztec, Chelan creation myths from major sources for myth on the Internet.
Cordelia
Maya, Mik'Maq, and Scandinavian creation myths.

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