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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.

Greek Cosmogonies or Creation Myths

Information on the ancient Greek mythological conceptions of the creation of the world and people or gods in it.

Genealogy of the First Gods

Descendants of Gaia through the Titans Kreios, Hyperion, Thea, Oceanos, Tethys, Koios and Phoibe, and through her liaison with Pontos which produced Eurybia.

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.

Cosmogonies - Origins of the Gods

Origins of the anthropomorphic gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. Their ancestors were more primitive types of creatures.

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 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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