THE 20 BEST KNOWN ANTHROPOGONIC MYTHS - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2025

The antropogónicos myths are those stories that are part of a particular culture and tell how the creation of man and how he came to the world, to develop and expand their culture took place.

All religious beliefs, directly related to social groups that are configured in different cultures, maintain creation myths, both of the world and of man.

Scene from Ancient Greece. Ancient Greek mythology.

Historically, these myths are attributed to a god or a group of deities who for a certain reason decided to create man. In addition, there are also many other groups that associate creation with deities that are truly stars.

Regardless of the hemisphere in which they are located, anthropogonic myths are a common element of practically all cultures.

There are hardly any groups in which they are not created in deities and therefore, there are no creation myths. Groups of humans from the five continents coincide in having stories that tell how the world was supposed to originate.

Science, at present, has discarded all creation myths, postulating endorsed theories that establish the beginning of the Universe in the Big Bang and the much later formation of Planet Earth and the evolution of life until reaching Homo sapiens sapiens.

Despite this, anthropogonic myths have not lost their validity and serve to understand the cultural configuration of the group that maintains it.

List of anthropogenic myths of humanity

Christianity and Judaism - Adam and Eve

The religion with the most adherents in the world is Christianity. Together with Judaism, they maintain a common belief in the creation of the world and of men.

That is located in the first book of the Bible and the Torah, Genesis, where it is narrated that God created the world in seven days.

Finally, on the sixth day, God created Adam and later Eve, from a rib from Adam. Man and woman were created in the image and likeness of God.

Islamism - Adam

It is very closely related to Christian creation. God created the earth and the seven heavens, and communicated to the angels the decision to create a man in his image and likeness.

He did so, named Adam, but Satan refused to accept it and became the enemy of Allah. The main difference is that the presence of Eve is ignored, who is only the partner of Adam, the first prophet of Islam. The man and the woman, according to the Quran, were created from a drop of ejaculated sperm.

Ancient Greece: myth of Prometheus

Prometheus was a titan that when the gods had already created the whole world and the animals, he descended and took on the task of making a clay man who was in their image and likeness.

Because he observed the helpless humans, he stole the fire from Olympus and gave it to them, unleashing the fury of Zeus, who ordered the destruction of the human race and took the fire from them after a deception by Prometheus.

Zeus created Pandora, where he accumulated evils to end humanity. He did not achieve his goal and sent Prometheus to be tied to a rock, until he was released.

Ancient Greece: five ages of man

Narrated by Hesiod, it establishes five ages of creation.

First came the golden men, who did not age. They were replaced by the silver ones, who ate bread and were destroyed by Zeus.

Then came the bronze ones, which were made from ash trees, as well as warriors and insolent, which led them to die from the plague.

Later came the bronze men, engendered in mortal but noble women. The present age is that of iron men, degenerate, treacherous and cruel.

Sumerian

The gods created humans out of need for worship, in order to build temples and venerate them. Nammu created the clay man, called Abzu.

Hinduism: God Shattered

Collected in the oldest text of Hinduism, the Púrusha-sukta, it is one of the creation myths.

In it it is narrated that Púrusha, a god with a thousand heads and a thousand feet was sacrificed and torn to pieces by the devas. With all its parts, the universe and the elements of planet Earth were created.

Scientology

Establishing itself as one of the most modern religions, Scientology raises the beginning of humans with the arrival of the supreme dictator Xenu to Earth 75 million years ago, in which he brought billions of people and killed them with hydrogen bombs. Their souls stuck to the bodies of the living and are part of being.

Mayas

Reflected in the Popol Vuh, it is narrated that the gods were at first in an inert state, until the word was made.

The gods wanted to make humans, but they failed twice. The first time they tried to make clay men, but they lacked soul and agility.

Then they tried the wood, but laziness overcame them, which caused them to be destroyed. Finally, the men of corn were erected, with the blood of the gods, who dominate the world.

Yoruba

The Yoruba sky god, Olorum, launched a chain from the universe into the waters, where one of his sons, Oduduwa, descended.

He brought a five-fingered hen and a seed, which he sowed and from which grew a tree with sixteen branches, which were the 16 sons of Oduduwa and represent the 16 Yoruba tribes that were formed.

Zoroastrianism

Ormuz created the world and in turn six geniuses in his image and likeness. He in turn created messengers, and later men, models of perfection.

He then created 22 models of spirits and ruled for three thousand years. Ahriman, a son of the eternal, was disobedient and condemned to darkness for twelve thousand years.

After three thousand years, in seven periods, Hormuz created man and woman, called Meshia and Meshiana.

Aztecs

Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcóatl meet the gods in a solitary way. Therefore, they decided to create the land where there was only sea.

Tezcatlipoca used his foot as bait to lure the monster, which they captured and stretched out to make it land. Later, the first men were created.

Incas

Viracocha created a world with giants of inhabitants. Later she reduced them to their size and demanded obedience and veneration, which they did not end up fulfilling and that is why she turned them into stones and animals. Only three men were left alive, who helped Viracocha re-create them.

Cayapas

The gods created a group of men who lived in heaven, much like the earth. A hunter found an armadillo's cave while trying to hunt it, but it fell into the void.

The hunter was able to see what the land was like and called a group of friends, who made a rope to go down. When it broke, no one else came down.

Nordic countries

The most popular version within Norse mythology is that the three gods were in the form of trees. Their names were Odin, Vil, and Vé.

From the trunks of the trees the first man was born, named Askr who would be an ash tree and the first woman, named Embla who would be an elm.

Wayuú

Maleiwa, the God, lived alone with the moon, the sun and the rain, while the earth was alone. The earth and the rain fell in love and had children in many ways, but none walked, which thwarted the rain. For this reason, Maleiwa gave birth to the Wayuu, inhabitants of La Guajira.

Buddhism

Buddha believed that it was nonsense to speak of the creation of the world, because it had always existed and will never cease to exist.

However, the current cycle begins with a contraction of the world and a reincarnation in Buddha. Later the water arises and the beings begin to distinguish between men and women.

Waraos

The gods created the waraos and lived with them in heaven. One day Okonoroté dropped a piece, which landed on the earth's surface.

He went downstairs to look for her and invited his friends to explore. Subsequently, a pregnant woman got out, who got stuck and blocked the way, becoming the morning star.

Taoism

The Tao is everything, and it existed before heaven and earth. It is, in turn, the beginning of everything. The tao gave rise to the unity of things, from which the facets arose, which became triads to produce ten thousand beings.

Shintoism

At first there were only three gods, but over time the number expanded. The primordial pair of Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto were formed, throwing gems to Earth and forming the islands of Japan. They had thousands of children in the forms of gods until their death.

Pastafarism

Although it is a satirical religion, Pastafarianism poses that the Flying Spaghetti Monster, where in the midst of drowsiness and drunkenness he created a dwarf named Man, who accompanied his dwarf Woman.

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