Studying and comparing creation myths teaches me a lot about myself and other. I had a different understanding of how we came to this Earth. Of course this is just another question that is answer with a myth. I actually enjoyed the three myths I watched, which were The Mayan, the Inca, and the Inuit. They all gave different creations that illuminated the world in different ways. Their creations were made by this Gods, however this is a question I can never stop asking myself because the truth is that I will never really know how was the first human ever created. Many different myths can give me an idea, but it makes no sense to watch many different myths and yet, not know the exact one. I am not really a “church” person, however, one time I remember asking my mother where the first person ever came from. She eventually started talking about Adam and Eve and how they committed a Sin and so on. This story gave me an answer, but did not give me an answer to the question that I was asking. Especially now that I have studied other creations of Earth, now I feel even more confused on what the truth of creation of the world is. I guess it is just a matter of pushing our own buttons and believing whatever myth fits, or we can simply create our own myth that will eventually evolve and that we will feel confident with in order to go along and continue answering the same questions to our kids, and our kid’s kids and so on.
Eventually through the study of the creation of Earth I learned that my life is very precious because although I was not the first one created, I was put on this earth with a purpose of learning to survive and to walk without the need to be destroyed. I also learned that we should not be destroyed in earth by other gods, but we do have to live our life and then eventually moved alon to let other humans live their life. Today I can ask many people the question of how the first human was ever created and everyone will have some difference in their story. However, this study has taught me that however the first person was ever created and however the first person ever walked on this Earth, we have evolved and have changed the world ourselves without following the nature of any God or any simple theme. The Human Nation has taken over the world and now there are thousands and thousands of our ancestors who we might never know anything about, but who we will fight in order to continue moving in life and ourselves becoming ancestor to a near future. Whatever it is we learn from now on will be what will most likely be passed on to the rest of the world in our generations because eventually technology will be different and although the myths will be surviving, the new generations will be over crowned with smartness on the technology issues.
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I think that the whole mystery behind how the world was created is what’s interesting about all these myths and the Bibles story of creation, and all of the evolution theories,like you said, you can not really ever know what the real truth of how the world was created. I think that’s what makes all the different theories so interesting, it gives us all kinds of different ideas to consider about how it all happened. Lots of people have different theories on how the world and everything in it came to be, I think you are right when you said it must just be a matter of what story fits for us. Plus, like you said, it almost doesn’t matter HOW we were all put on this Earth but WHY? What is the purpose and now that we are here how do we keep evolving? We have to make sure that the world that has been created for us, however it was created, stays preserved for the future generations. Hopefully the growth of technology that you spoke of will be a helpful aid in making that happen. I think that even if technology does continue to grow and make the new generations “smarter”, the myths will still be passed on because all of the possibilities are so interesting.
ReplyDeleteI watched the same videos that you watched as well and found them all very interesting. They were all so different from each other in many ways, yet, they also had their similarities. They were eccentric myths. I however do believe in the story of Adam and Eve I also believe that God is the one who created it all and for His purpose that may not be known or fully understood by us. I agree that we all tend to pick and chose what we want to believe and what we like. We tend to mold and believe in a god that best suits us above all. We do not like having a god that we can not fully explain and define. We feel that everything must somehow be explained to us, which is not necessarily true because if we understood and knew everything we might as well be god ourselves. Everyone has the free will to believe what they want to believe. I understand that we have that free will however that does not change my belief that there is, was, and always will be and that is God. The God of Adam and Eve and Father Jesus Christ along with all creation. I can see where your beliefs come from and I respect them I however believe that our free will does not change the fact that there is one God rather than many to pick and chose from.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your blog and that all these myths confused you in a sense because really, that means you're actually listening to them and trying to understand. I think, a lot of times that myths can be so easily dismissed as hocus pocus but if you really think about them the questions they present have endless possible answers, hence the confusion. When there is no definitive response that can be drawn from something like a myth it feels a lot like being trapped on a merry go 'round in that you keep thinking yourself in to circles and arriving back and the beginning only more confused than before. I really like that you resolved within yourself to be certain of your purpose in life, the only thing anyone can really be certain of anymore. I also like that you face the fact that we too will someday have to move out of the way of the future generation and they will make their own legends to address our ways. I hadn't really thought of that before, that with the advancements in technology and medicine someday people will look back on our generation and say "how could they think that?" or "How did they do this or that?" It's a really interesting topic to ponder. I just hope they don't look back in anger and ask "why didn't you do something about this before it was too late?"
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