Common Elements in Creation Myths

What is it that makes people so curious? Is it the need for knowledge? Is it that we can’t be satisfied until we know where everything came from? Maybe that’s just what people are meant to be. Curious. It could be a sign that we were meant to learn. But not everything has been solved. One mystery that has puzzled humankind for centuries is the creation of man and the Earth.
Themes of floods, the darkness or nothing and the creation of man are at the centre of many creation myths, which is unusual because people in the past couldn’t travel so they would have never met each other. There was a flood according to the Mayan myth and the Yoruban myth. The flood in the Mayan was to destroy the failed humans and the flood of the Yoruban myth was made out of anger from the excluded god who took his revenge by killing most of the human race. The Egyptian myth started with Atun, who willed himself to existence in the depths of nothing. Phan Ku was in a similar position, being born from a cosmic egg, surrounded by the darkness. Babylonian myths say Marduk, the almighty god created by the other weaker gods, made humans to take care of earth for him. The Egyptian gods’ reason for creating humans was for a similar reason, but the humans were made to take care of Atun’s creation and to worship the gods to thank them. There are many stories, theories showing that even people in the past were just as curious as we are now. The theories they had became their religion and part of their daily life because they believed that they were real. There could have been a giant born from a cosmic egg or a cow that licked giants from ice, but however silly they may sound, there will always be the possibility that these myths are true. What could have caused people in the past to believe them so strongly? Things that they saw with their own eyes.