Sunday, September 13, 2009

Creation myth

Many cultures have creation myth's which are unique to their identity because most of them explain what happened? on earth for instance like how human's came to being or how we got feeling's or nature. Many different cultures seek those explanation. I think that a amazing because cultures didn't even know that other culture's existed. One myth called Phan Ku a chinese myth is a myth that explains how the world was created. One day a man burst out of a cosmic egg, his name was Phan Ku, it was said that he grew 10 feet a day and had hair all over him and he lived for 8000 years. Now the myth continues on by when Phan Ku carved out the world. Then he started decorating he filled in the space between sky and added clouds. The came the river and lakes and ocean's he created them all from his blood, earth from all his skin then from his bones he created all the rocks, after that he made all plant and life form his hair, then the rain came from his sweat, lightning and thunder from his voice. But then he died and he sacrificed himself to complete the world becuase when he died thats how feeling came to human beings because they suffer under Phan Ku's death. This myth explains all 3 main things that cultures seek. I find this magnificent because they are trying to tell us the same thing.Happening

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1 comment:

Claire said...

The three common elements are better if they come from different myths if you are proving that difference cultures share the same ideas. Use the 4 step summary planner which is on Moodle to help organize your writing.