Cosmology A Creation Myth - 1227 Words

At the infrastructure of nearly every culture is a creation myth that explains how Earth in its entity came to be. Cosmology is defined as being all of the assumptions we make about how the universe is arranged. Modern society has developed possible assumptions in regards as to how the universe came to be and in similar so did ancient cultures. These myths have an immense influence on people’s framework of reference. They all come from one early source and are divergent only because time and local cultural circumstances have exaggerated or modified them. Despite being separated by numerous geographical barriers, many cultures before and after Genesis have developed creation myths that share common aspects that are fundamentally derived†¦show more content†¦And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Gen. 2.4). In the second story, creation takes one day, man is created first, then proceeds the creation of all the plants and animals, and in the end, the woman is created. To further reiterate what some people believe Genesis One and Two are no doubt contradictions based on the descriptions others have the intuition that Genesis One is the account of the creation of the universe and life on planet Earth as it happened in chronological order. Genesis Two is simply an expanded explanation of the events that occurred at the end of the sixth and creation day-when God created human beings. Indian myth is confronted by the imaginative riot of Vedic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainic deities that gives rise to the God-given creation as seen in Genesis. In the early myths of the Rig Veda it was said: â€Å"who verily knows and can declare whence came this creation? He, the first origin of this creation, whose eye in the highest heaven controls this world, whether he did or did not form it all, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows it not† (Harrison 516). Edward Harrison articulates in his article â€Å"Creation of the Universe† that according to the Hindu