Commonalities of Creation Stories

-The Flood: Many of the creation myths involved a flood; often because the deity (or deities) were unhappy with the way human beings were living.

-Beginnings: Is it too rhetorical to mention that most of the myths of creation started with "In the beginning there was nothing"?
            * I found it so interesting how some of the creation stories began with an already existing creation. For instance, the creation story of the Gros Ventre tribe that I found started with people who were wild and did not know how to do anything and so the creator decided to create a new world. It is almost more like recycling...

-Earth Divers- its tougher than it sounds... many earth divers were unsuccessful or only successful after pushing through adversity.

-Metamorphoses- in many creation myths, a body (or body parts) of a deity were transformed into the physical earth.

-Lonely Deities- human beings were often created because a deity was lonely...I bet it is because they can never keep their friends.

-Clay-made humans - often clay was used to create the form of a human being, and then life is breathed into the clay-figurine. Woman is not made from man, both are made from the clay, and different colored clay resulted in people of different colored skin.