Creation Myths

Myths are one of the most amazing pieces of literature to read. The creativity in them is beyond most other forms of writing. Myths bring you to an entirely different way of thinking about the world through it's creativity. To think that it was people who thought of these stories and the imagination they had to have is crazy. Is it though?
Everyone at some point in their life has thought about why they are here. Why are we in this world? Are we made to be here, or are we just a coincidence? I have no doubt that those who created these myths thought these questions as well. Humans are curious creatures who want answer to all questions. It can be extremely unsettling no knowing things in our lives. To put to rest the unrest, I believe these people used myths. Having an explanation, whether plausible or not, settles the feeling of not knowing . It is much easy to have stories that explain natural phenomena than to go about life not knowing. Creations myths are one of the many examples. These people didn't know how the world started, even today we can't give a hundred percent correct explanation. In order to settle the unrest of these unanswered questions, they created stories to explain them in ways that made sense and were natural to them. So many different cultures have their own creation myth that explains to them how the world started in a way that reflected their culture as well. This is why the Icelandic creation myth has frost giants. Other cultures, such as the Native American and Meso-Americans probably would be in a different climate in which a frost giant would not make sense and so it isn't in their creation myth. The themes of creation myths, however, tend to cross paths.
Many creation myths, and myths in general, are very good at providing morals to those that hear or read them. Often times the theme of good vs evil is presented, such as how good and evil came about. I find this as not only the most interesting theme of myths but also one of the most important. All morals are surrounded by the idea of good vs evil. We are nice to each other because the opposite would to be mean. We help others because the opposite would be being rude or neglectful to someone. If we didn't have myths such as creation myths to tell us good vs evil, how else would we learn it? How else would people know that being good is better than being bad? Creation myths give us a society with ideals and morals of which that can be passed down and taught. They greatly affect ourselves individually and as a whole. Our morals or lack of thereof guide us in life.