How Life Begins on Earth - The Ancient Folktales

"Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait..."

If you are a "The Big Bang Theory" fan, you will probably be very familiar with the lines above. If you are not, it is totally okay, because today we are not going to talk about the episodes of  "The Big Bang Theory" , we are going to talk about the real Big Bang Theory and reveal some interesting stories about how life begins on earth.

In truth, people in today's society will accept the big bang theory. At the very beginning, the early atmosphere was toxic, and a constant asteroid bombardment churned the landscape into a worldwide ocean of molten rock. As soon as the environment settled down to be relatively habitable, life appeared.

 

However, because of the lack of technically advanced tools, ancient people were unable to discover the scientific aspect of the formation of primate life, therefore, they created many myths of the formation of the universe.

In the Korean folktale, for instance, heaven and earth were stuck together but not bonded each other. Then a gap opened between the heaven and earth so that heavy subjects sunk, forming the earth. On another side, light subjects floated up, forming the sky. A blue drop of from the sky fell and caused a collision which made all creations of the universe except the Moon, the stars, and the Sun. 

Far from Asian countries, Egyptians had their own mythology too. They believed that at first, the world was a dark and milky place. One day, the God Atum cried and these tears gave birth to men and women. Later, Shu and Tefnut (Atum) had Nut (the sky) and Geb (the earth), who were lovers separated by Atum, but before they were separated, Nut and Geb gave birth to the main five Egyptian gods, and together made the earth a favorable place for human to live.

See! How interesting these myths are. What is your opinion of these myths? Do you know any myth created by other cultures? Please comment below!

Citation:

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Korean Myth

Egyptian Myth