List of creation myths

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or amorphousness.

Basic type

Creation from chaos

• Enûma Eliš (Babylonian
  creation myth)
• Eridu Genesis
• Greek cosmogonical myth
• Jamshid
• Korean creation narratives
• Kumulipo
• Leviathan (Book of Job 38–41 creation myth)
• Mandé creation myth
• Pangu
• Raven in Creation
• Serer creation myth
• Tungusic creation myth
• Unkulunkulu
• Väinämöinen
• Viracocha

Earth diver

• Ainu creation myth
• Cherokee creation myth
• Iroquois creation myth
• Väinämöinen
• Yoruba creation myth
• Ob-Ugric creation myth

Emergence

• Hopi creation myth
• Maya creation of the world myth
• Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo)
• Zuni creation myth

Ex nihilo (out of nothing)

• Debate between sheep and grain
• Barton cylinder
• Ancient Egyptian creation myths
• Genesis creation myth (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Rastafari
  )
• Kabezya-Mpungu
• Māori myths
• Mbombo
• Ngai
• Popol Vuh

Raven Tales

World parent

• Coatlicue
• Enûma Eliš
• Greek cosmogonical myth
• Heliopolis creation myth
• Hiranyagarbha creation myth
• Kumulipo
• Rangi and Papa
• Völuspá

Divine twins

• Proto-Indo-European creation myths

Regional

Africa

• Ancient Egyptian creation myths
• Fon creation myth
• Kaang creation story
  (Bushmen)
• Kintu myth (Bugandan)
• Mandé creation myth
• Mbombo (Kuba, Bakuba or Bushongo/Boshongo)
• Ngai (Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai )
• Serer creation myth (cosmogony of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania)
• Unkulunkulu (Zulu)
• Yoruba creation

Americas

Caribbean

• Taíno creation myths

Mesoamerica

• Coatlicue
  (Aztec)
• Maya creation of the world myth
• Popol Vuh (Quiché Mayan)

Mid North America

• Anishinaabeg creation stories
• Cherokee creation myth
• Choctaw creation myth
• Creek creation myth
• Hopi creation myth
• Kuterastan (Plains Apache)
• Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo)
• Raven in Creation
  (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian)
• Zuni creation myth

South America

• Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu (Chilean)
• Viracocha (Incan)
• Xolas (Chilean)

Asia

Central Asia

• Ergenekon
• Mongolian creation myth
• Tungusic creation myth

East Asia

• Ainu creation myth (Japan)
• Au Co
  (Vietnamese)
• Chinese creation myth
• Japanese creation myth
• Korean creation narratives
• Vietnamese creation myth
• Nüwa (Chinese)
• Pangu (Chinese)

Indian subcontinent

• Ajativada
• Buddhist cosmology
• Folk
  Hindu creation myth
• Hiranyagarbha creation (India)
• Jainism and non-creationism (India)
• Meitei mythology (India)
• Mimamsa
  eternalism (India)
• Nyaya-Vaisheshika atomic theory (India)
• Samkhya-yoga theory (India)
• Sanamahi creation myth (India)

Europe

• Slavic creation myth
• Theogony (Classical Greco-Roman)
• Book of Invasions
  (Celtic, specifically Irish)
• Väinämöinen (Finnish)
• Völuspá (Norse)

Middle East

• Debate between sheep and grain
• Enûma Eliš
  (Babylonian)
• Eridu Genesis (Sumerian)
• Genesis creation myth
  (Hebrew)
• Islamic creation myth (Arabic)
• Leviathan (Book of Job 38-41 creation myth)
• Mashya and Mashyana (Persian)

Pacific Islands/Oceanic

• Areop-Enap (Nauruan)
• Kumulipo (Hawaiian)
• Māori myths (Māori)
• Rangi and Papa (Māori)
• Sureq Galigo
  (Buginese)

In mythopoeia

In

are integrated into fiction. Some works of mythopoeia also feature creation myths:

• Tolkien's The Silmarillion

References

• ISBN 978-0-87436-739-3
  .
• Leeming, David Adams; Leeming, Margaret Adams (2009). A Dictionary of Creation Myths (Oxford Reference Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-19-510275-8
  .