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Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Myths and Folktales: Myths: Creation

Common Elements in Creation Myths - An exploration of common themes, with examples of myths from around the world.
Creation Myths - Two versions of the traditional Samoan creation myth, collected by one Rev Thomas Powell.
Creation Myths and Sacred Narratives of Creation - A collection of annotated links on world wide creation myths.
Creation Myths from the Philippines - A collection of old Filipino accounts of the creation.
Creation Stories - A collection of Creation stories from around the world, with a final chapter exploring common themes.
Genesis - A presentation of creation myths, Charles Darwin, and evolution.
Myths of Creation and of Origin - A hypertext version of the chapter in Mircea Eliade's "From Primitives to Zen" - a collection of translations of original texts.
Phoenician Creation Story - Abstract of the Phoenician creation myth.
Stories of the Dreaming - An introduction to, and collection of, Indigenous Australian stories of the Dreamtime, the 'time before time', or 'the time of the creation of all things'. Includes audio tales.
The Altaic Creation Story - Verse versions of a prose translation of Altaic (Turkish) epic and legend, by Gene Doty.
The Creation of the Earth and the Great Flood - Excerpts from The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Norse Creation Myth - Abstracted from The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson.
The Samoan Story of Creation - From the Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1892; includes a transaltion, introduction and commentary.

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