Curated playlist
Creation myths
- Book of GenesisOne theory says Persian rulers pushed Jerusalem to produce Genesis.
- Adam and EveIn Islam, Adam and Eve share equal blame for the forbidden fruit. God forgave them.
- MetamorphosesOvid's Metamorphoses retells world history through more than 250 myths. It runs from creation to Julius Caesar.
- Ancient Egyptian creation mythsIn one Egyptian creation myth, the god Ptah made the world by speaking. His ideas formed in his heart first.
- CosmogonyThe Big Bang model cannot actually reach the moment of the beginning.
- Uranus (mythology)In Greek myth, Cronus ambushed his father Uranus, the sky, with a sickle. His mother Gaia, the Earth, had made it.
- TheogonyIn the Theogony, a stone wrapped in baby clothes saves Zeus from being swallowed.
- Ogdoad (Egyptian)Ancient Egyptians pictured eight gods of creation as frogs and serpents. The Ogdoad were worshiped at Hermopolis.
- VöluspáThe name Gandalf waited in a list of dwarf names from Völuspá. Tolkien took it from that Norse poem for The Hobbit.
- EnneadThe Ennead, also called the Great Ennead, was a family of nine deities worshipped at Heliopolis. The Egyptians knew that city as Awanu, and its ruins now lie within the limits of modern Cairo. The word simply means "the nine", and the…
- Chaos (cosmogony)The English word gas comes from the ancient Greek idea of chaos. A Dutch chemist coined it in the 17th century.