EARLY EXISTENCE MYTHS

Parallels in beliefs of what existed before everything else are found in the following myths:

·   Yoruban (watery chaos)
·   Japan (chaotic sea, with elements of earth/fire/air/water)
·   Inca (came from a lake)
·   Greek (chaotic sea)
·   Indian (primeval sea)
·   Pawnee (sea of chaos)
·   Egyptian (watery abyss)
·   Norse (bottomless abyss)
·   Iroquois (people lived in sky, below was large sea from which emerged the earth)

Common threads found between these myths:

- In all of these, it is clear to see that many civilizations believed that earth, or their Creator, came from chaos, and that chaos was usually a large body of water, like a sea.