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Myth Creation
Summary: Compares the Babylonian Creation Story and the story of creation as described in the Bible in Genesis. Describes the common elements of a creation story and details how they derive from oral traditions.
Almost every culture has what is known as a creation story. A creation story is usually of is a long narrative usually of spiritual or religious nature which explains the creation of the man, and the world which man in habits. There is a common theme found in creation stories which stories from any culture exhibit. Most Creation stories derive from an oral tradition and are later drafted into text. Two creation stories that stem from two different cultures are text in Genesis, and the Babylonian Creation Story. Both stories contain many similarities and differences.
Both the Babylonian Creation Story and the story of creation in Genesis start the same basic way. This is with an idea of nothing ness. Both stories depict the earth as a void or nothingness containing no shape. Each story beings with the all powerful figure or figures creation what we know as...
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