7 mythological concepts of creation

In most mythologies have shared stories about the origin of all things: the allocation of items from the original order of chaos, division of maternal and paternal gods, the land of origin of the ocean, endless and timeless. Here are the most interesting myths and legends about the creation of the world.

Slavic
The ancient Slavs were a lot of legends about how there was a world and all who inhabit it.
Creation began with filling his love.
In the Carpathian Slavs have a legend, according to which the world was created by two pigeons sitting on the oak among the sea and thought, "how to set up the light." We decided to go down to the bottom of the sea, take the fine sand and sow it, and with it would go "black bit of land, studio water that grass is green." And with the golden stone, which is also produced at the bottom of the sea - would go "blue sky, bright sun, clear month, and all the stars."
According to one myth, the world was initially shrouded in darkness. There was only the progenitor of all things - Rod. He was imprisoned in the egg, but managed to produce Lada (Love), and its power has destroyed the shell. Creation began with filling his love. Rhode created the kingdom of heaven, and under it - the Middle Kingdom, separated from the ocean waters of the firmament. Then Rod divided Light and Darkness, and became the father of the Earth, which was plunged into the dark abyss of the Ocean. From Roda face the sun came out of his chest - the moon, from the eyes - Star. From Rhoda were breathing the wind out of tears - rain, snow and hail. His voice began to thunder and lightning. Then she gave birth Svarog Rod and breathed into his mighty spirit. It SVAROG arranged day and night, and made the earth - squeezed in the hands of a handful of earth, which then fell into the sea. The sun warmed the earth and caked her crust cooled the surface of the Moon.
According to another legend, the world was the result of the hero of the battle with the dragon that guarded the golden egg. Hercules killed the snake, chopped egg, and from it came the three kingdoms of heaven, earth and underground.
There is a legend in the beginning there was nothing but the boundless sea. Duck flying over the sea surface, dropped the egg into the water depths, it split from the bottom of his left "mother-land of cheese", and from the top - "stood tall firmament."

Egyptian
Creator and Atum was considered the primordial essence, which originated from Noon - primary ocean. In the beginning there was no heaven, no earth, no soil. Atum as the hill grew up in the middle of the ocean. There is an assumption, according to which, the shape of the pyramid is also connected to the concept of primary hill.
Egyptian god Atum absorbed their same seed, and then spewed into the world of two children.
After Atum pulled from the water with great effort, soared over the abyss, and a spell in which grew up among the water surface of the second hill - Ben Ben. Atum sat on the hill and began to think of what he create peace. Since he was the one that consumed their seed to, and then spewed air god Shu and goddess Tefnut moisture. And the first people emerged from the tears of Atum, who briefly lost their children - Shu and Tefnut, and then regained, and burst into tears of joy.
From this pair, Atum born, there were gods Geb and Nut, and they, in turn, gave birth to twins Osiris and Isis, and Seth and Nephthys. Osiris was the first god, killed and resurrected for eternal afterlife.

Greek
The Greek concept was initially Chaos, from which came the earth Gaia, and in the depths of her deep-seated abyss of Tartarus. Chaos spawned Nyuktu (Night) and Erebus (Darkness). The night also spawned Tanat (death), Hypnos (Sleep) and Moir - the goddess of fortune. From the Night took goddess of rivalry and discord Eris, which gave rise to hunger, grief, Murder, Lies, Iznutritelny labor battles, and other troubles. From communication Nights with Erebus was born Aether and radiant day.
Gaia gave birth to Uranus (the sky), and then it went up from the depths of the mountains, and the plains spread out Pont (Sea).
Gaia and Uranus engendered the Titans: the Ocean, Tefiyu, Iapetus, Hyperion Teyyu, Kriya Kay, Phoebe, Themis, Mnemosyne, Kronos and Rhea.
Cronus overthrew his mother with the help of his father, seizing power and taking a wife's sister Rhea. They created a new tribe - the gods. But Kronos was afraid his children, because he once overthrew his same parent. That's why he swallowed them soon after birth. One child Rhea hid in a cave on Crete. This saved the baby was Zeus. God nurtured a goat, and his muffled cries blows copper shields.
Growing up, his father Zeus overcame Crohn's and made him vomit out of the womb siblings: Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Thus came to an end the era of Titans - the era of the gods of Olympus.

Scandinavian
The Scandinavians believed that before the world was empty ginnungagap. To the north of it lay frozen Niflheim world of darkness, and to the south - the fiery country Muspellheym. Gradually, the emptiness of the world filled with poisonous ginnungagap with frost, which turned into a giant Ymir. He was the ancestor of all frost-giants. When Ymir slept, the sweat began to drip from his armpits, and the droplets become a man and a woman. Because of this water formed as auðumbla cow, whose milk drink Ymir, and the second was born from the sweat of a man - the Storm.
Son Buri Bor Bor married the giantess Bestla, and it was their three sons: Odin, Vili and Ve. For some reason, the sons of Storm hated giant Ymir and killed him. Then they carried his body to the center ginnungagap and created the world: from the flesh - earth, from the blood - the ocean, the skull - the sky. Ymir's brain scattered across the sky, the clouds turned. Ymir's eyelashes they fenced off the best part of the world, and people settled there.
Drops of sweat from the armpits of the Scandinavian giant Ymir transformed into a man and a woman.
Themselves as the gods created humans from two wood knots. From the first men and women there were all the other people. For myself, the gods built a castle Asgard, where he settled.

Chinese
In China, I believe that the universe once had the shape of a huge egg, which was born ancestor Pangu. He slept in the egg 18 thousand years, and he woke up, he began looking for a way to get out. Pangu ax cut through the shell.
Two start - a bright, educated the spirit of Ian and dark formed the spirit of Yin became heaven and earth respectively. Pangu stood on the ground and put his head in the sky, not to give them again mix and turn into chaos. From his breaths winds rose from exhalations - thunder, the day came when the giant opened his eyes, and when closed - night fell. Every day, Pangu grew up to 3 meters, so that the sky was getting higher, and the earth - thicker.
People came out of the parasites that crawled over the body of the Chinese ancestor Pangu. Pangu stood for 18 thousand years, and died, and his voice was thunder, breath - the wind and clouds, his left eye - the sun, the right - the moon, the body - the four cardinal points, the blood - the rivers, the flesh - soil. But people got out of the parasites that crawled over the body Pangu.

Zoroastrian
Zoroastrians have created an interesting concept of the universe. According to this concept, there is a world of over 12 thousand. Years. His whole story is divided into four periods, each of 3 thousand. Years.
First period - pre-existence of things and ideas. At this stage, the heavenly creatures have existed pre-images of all that was later created on Earth. This state is called the world Menok ("invisible" or "spiritual").
The second period is the creation of the created world, that is the real, the visible, the population of "creatures". Ahura Mazda created the heavens, the stars, the moon, the sun, the first man and pervobyka. For the sphere of the Sun is the abode of Ahura Mazda. However, at the same time it begins to act Ahriman. It invades the limits of the sky, creates planets and comets do not obey the uniform motion of the celestial spheres.
Ahriman pollute water, sends death to the first man and Gayomarta pervobyka. But the first person born a man and woman, from which went to the human race, and of all the animals pervobyka occur. From the clash of two opposing started the whole world in motion: water gain fluidity, there are mountains, moving celestial bodies. To neutralize the effect of "bad" planets, Ahura Mazda each planet puts his spirits.
The third period covers the period of existence of the universe before the prophet Zoroaster.
During this period, there are mythological heroes of the Avesta: the king of the golden age - Yima Shining in the kingdom which no heat, no cold, no old age, no envy - the creation of the devas. This king rescues people and livestock from the flood by constructing a special shelter for them.
Among the just mentioned this time and some field Vishtaspa ruler, patron of Zoroaster. During the last, fourth period (after Zoroaster) in each millennium, people should be three Savior appeared sons of Zoroaster. The last of them, the Savior Saoshyant, will decide the fate of the world and humanity. He will raise the dead, destroy the evil and defeat Ahriman, then come the cleansing of the world, "the flow of molten metal", and all that will be left after this, will gain eternal life.

Sumerian-Akkadian
Mythology of Mesopotamia is the most ancient of all known in the world. There she is in the 4th millennium BC. e. in the state, which at that time was called Akkad, and later was developed in Assyria, Babylonia, Sumeria and Elam.
In the early times were only two gods who personified the fresh (god Apsu) and salinity (the goddess Tiamat). Water exist independently and never crossed. But once the fresh and salt water are mixed - and the gods were born older - children Apsu and Tiamat. Following the senior gods appeared and many younger gods. But the world is still composed of only one of chaos, the gods were crowded and not comfortable in it, as they often complained to the supreme Apsu. Apsu is ill-fed up, and he decided to destroy all of his children and grandchildren, but the battle was not able to overcome his son Enki, to whom he was defeated and cut into four parts, which have turned into dry land, sea, river and fire. For the murder of her husband wanted to take revenge on Tiamat, but it also was defeated by the young god Marduk, who created to fight the wind and the storm. After the victory of Marduk got some artifact "Me", which determines the movement and fate of the world.