Creation Stories

Just been doing a little reading on creation stories from various cultures and one thing really sticks out, most of them are all very similar and a lot are older than most of the mainstream beliefs of this day and age, which I find to be less shrouded in "golden turtle" metaphors.

The first major similarities start out with the earth being void of light and/or covered in water and in chaos, the earth and sky need to be separated and usually the gods/people of the sky come fourth and bring light upon the world , create the land and all things. The other story usually involves a golden egg that is split to form the sky, earth and all things, which I feel is kind of the same as the first story.

The second major similarity is that a lot of the human creation stories involve the gods forming people from mud and giving knowledge to them, it just seems to be a major motif throughout and the story is widely used throughout the world.

The third similarity is that of great floods, a lot of the time to wipe out the gods mistakes and to restart building human kind. Probably a great disaster that cycles back to the first similarity.

One last thing, there are plenty of giants throughout many of these creation stories.

I don't know what all this means all I can think of is that something happened many many years ago that has been lost in translation throughout the ages that has stayed with many cultures no matter where they travel.

I've known of these parallels for ages but this is the first time that I have actually done some proper research into confirming that these stories are very similar. My conclusion is that I'm never going to know for sure what our past truly holds, so why worry, but it sure makes for interesting reading.

Here's a wiki that has a lot of brief examples of many creation stories from many cultures.

EDIT: Just after posting this I found a very similar post from Beyond The Blog, they can certainly write better than I.