Articles for tag: Creation Myths

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Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky

As its name suggests, the Creation Museum, located just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, is home to a large exhibit space dedicated to the retelling of one of our planet’s many creation myths. In this case, the story presented is a literal retelling of the Christian creation myth. (Note well that despite the common ...

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Myths and Mythology in Ancient Egypt

The sunrise and the sunset, the road between life and death, the world beyond, nature and the cycle of seasons, these are all aspects of life that the ancient Egyptians tried to explain to themselves throw mythology. Each element, from plants to animals and planets has its own story. The creation of the world Atum ...

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The Origin of the Native American People

There are many answers to the question ‘Where did the Native Americans come from?’ in my personal opinion, the predominate scientific theory seems the most likely out of the three theories I present in this article. None of these answers to this question can be deemed technically ‘correct’ because none of these answers have been ...

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Basic Wiccan Beliefs

Wicca is a very interesting and popular religion in the United States and United Kingdom. Interest, however, is worldwide. But despite highly available resources, a basic understanding of Wiccan religion is not widespread. Credit is given to Gerald Gardner for bringing the religion to modern light during the early to mid 1900’s. Its origins and ...

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Cherokee Myth About the Sun

Oddly enough, Native American myth often followed some of the same ideas as European myth, albeit in a totally different way. They had myths about the creation, myths about the great flood, and even myths about Pandora’s box. Of course, they didn’t call it that and the story was markedly different. However, the concept remained ...