My Common Elements Paragraph

“The roots that clutch” – T.S. Elliot. This explains how creation myths can change in many different ways, but will always stick with its culture. Lots of creation myths have interesting stories and also all of them have common elements and themes like, from chaos or nothingness, state of perfection and also humans from mud/clay. From chaos and nothingness some of the countries that have this element in their myths are China and Egypt. Their ideas are pretty relevant (Start with nothing end with everything) and they both got these ideas even though the countries are far apart and maybe the people in those countries never met each other. Like what I just explained, state of perfection is also the same, both Mayan and Malayan involve state of perfection because in the Mayan myth, Tepeau and Gucumak had to try to make people three times before they finally taught that us, humans were perfect; as for the Malayan myth, Tapir’s life was perfect and everything he did and had was perfect… for a while at least. Chinese and Mayan myths both involve humans from mud/clay and, as I said before, even though they are from very different countries they are still reverent. In the Chinese myth, Phan Ku created people from his fleas but since there are lots of different myths, Nuwa (also from the Chinese creation myth) created people out of mud/clay. As did the Mayan, Tepeau and Gucumak tried three times to make people and on their second try, they used mud/clay but it didn’t work out for them. As you can see, lots of myths from different parts of the world are somehow the same. But that left me wondering, ‘How does everyone think the same even thought they have never met.’