Common Elements in Creation Myths

In the past, people everywhere had the same curiosity that steer them to search for answers. Their curiosity was how the universe, the world and us seemed to exist. That is why they invent 'creation myths'. Earth diving, birth and the gods leaving are some of the themes that were at the center of many creation myths. This was an astonishing results because the distance between these different cultures that had similar themes were far away from each other and back then, travelling was not as easy at it is now. In North America (the native Americans) and the Africans creation myths had the same theme, which was earth diving. This was unusual since these two different cultures had never meet with each other before and yet they had the same theme in their creation myths. They both believed that there was a world above and below and that Earth was in the middle, so how everything came on earth was that the first beings fell down or climb up on Earth that starts it all. A Chinese myth, Phan-Ku and a french Polynesian also called a Tahitian myth, Ta-aroa the creator reveals the next common theme. The theme was called birth. Many creation myths from around the world had this theme as well because of the idea of a start in life, like picture how we, humans, exist. We didn't start the way we were now in fact we start being in our mom's belly then our mom gave birth to us. Phan-Ku and Ta-aroa was born from an egg, grew up and created Earth. The gods leaves was another theme that shows up in some creation myths like Phan-Ku and Tiahuanaco. In these myths, they mentioned how when the world was at last complete, the gods or creators leaves. In Phan-Ku, the reason why he leaves was because he was tired after completing the Earth and rest which cause his death. In Tiahuanaco, there was no explanations of why he left but it did mention that he leaves after he had created everything we could find on Earth. Phan-Ku, a Chinese myth and Tiahuanaco, a South American myth, can you believe that they had the same theme even though the distance between these two countries were far away from each other? it is such an incredible connections between them although they've never met. This concludes that different cultures from around the world have lots of similarity behind their creation myths which means that even far apart people could think alike in relation to their understanding and explanations of how the universe, the world and us exist.