What Are The Similarities Between The Creation Myths Of India
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The similarities between the creation myths of India, China, Egypt and Babylon all have a common beginning of starting with nothing but darkness and one god, these early people all have in common, beginning with chaos then bringing order into the world and new beginnings. In the Egyptian creation myth, the beginning consisted of nothing but dark and mysterious waters, “In the beginning there was only the Nun: the great celestial waters of the unmanifest”. Before the gods created any life on Earth it just begun with dark waters. This was also displayed in the Indian creation myth, where at the beginning there was nothing, “There was neither non- existence nor existence then; there was neither the remain of space space nor the sky which is beyond.”