Across the world we have different myths and legends from the elephant god Ganesha to the Maya Jaguar gods to different types of angels, goblins, and fairy like figures that have different names, but common elements.
Every culture has something unique to offer and there are so many parallels if not similarities that make us wonder how cultures with so little contact had such similarities.
Out of The Darkness Everything Came
It is a natural question for early humans to ponder – How was the world created? How did we come into being? Why are we alive? How did everything begin and come to be?
Creation myths involving the world being created out of pitch darkness are found universally in Egypt, Hinduism, and China etc. In the Hebrew Bible, it began as nothing and God said “Let there be light” and this built the universe, earth etc.
In ancient China they believed that Pangu, a primordial horned hairy deity created the universe, earth and heavens etc. over a span of 18,000 years.
Early creation has human-like figures, or animals, who often are capable of speech and transformation and bend laws of physics and reality, such as the biblical talking snake and the apple in the Garden of Eden.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology, they call it ‘Dreamtime’ and the Rainbow Serpent is the creator figure here.
Australian Aboriginal rock painting of “The Rainbow Serpent”. (Digitaltribes at English Wikipedia/CC BY 2.5)
In Ojibwe mythology from North…
