Common Themes of Creation Myths

From the beginning of the human history, the curiousity of the existence of earth was driving people in chaos. Even now, people are still wondering how earth was created. That's how myths were made. 'The space of the universe was in the shape of a hen's egg. Within the egg was a great mass called "no thing." '-Chinese creation myth (Phan-Ku). This quote shows that in most Chinese creation myths, the universe had 'no thing' in the beginning, which is one of the common elements in many other cultures. Themes of 'from chaos or nothingness/void,' 'from earth-diving' and 'supreme creator who dies' are at the center of many creation myths, which is unusual because those countries with similar themes might not even have known each other. 'From chaos or nothingness/void' is a common theme both in Chinese and Japanese myths. Considering that China and Japan might not have known each other, it is interesting that they have a common theme. Other theme, 'from earth-diving' was shared between Native American Indian and Japanese creation myths. While thinking of the far distance of these two places, it also seems very strange to hold a same theme. The final theme, 'the supreme creator who dies-body gets incorporated into earth,' which was co-existed in the Chinese 'Phan-Ku' and the Autrailian Aborigine Creation myth is another amazing mystery despite of their rare communication each other. As shown above, from the ancient times, people liked to make a variety of different myths. However I, as a Christian, have a firm belief that our almighty God has created the universe and all things in the world as stipulated in the Genesis of the Bible.