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▲A creation myth is a supernatural mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, the Earth (see [[Genesis Effect]]), life, and the universe (cosmogony), usually as a deliberate act of "creation" by one or more deities. It may also include the creation of one or more deities (theogony), either before or after the cosmogony.
Many creation myths share broadly similar themes. Common motifs include the fractionation of the things of the world from a [[Primordial Chaos]]; the separation of the mother and father gods; land emerging from an infinite and timeless ocean; everything coming from a [[Cosmic Egg]], or creation ex nihilo (Latin: [[Void Between the Worlds|out of nothing]]).
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Compare [[Creation Story]], where characters of the story are involved as creators or witnesses.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Strontium Dog
== [[Literature]] ==
* The prologue to ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', "Ainulindalë", is the creation story of Middle-Earth.
* The Land from the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]''.
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* ''[[Watership Down]]'' features a ''rabbit'' creation myth. The sun-god, Frith, originally created all animals as equals, but when the children of El-hrairah, the First Rabbit and a popular [[Folk Hero]], began eating everything, he differentiated them, including blessing El-hrairah's bottom with quick feet and a cotton tail to warn for danger.
* The [[Discworld]] in ''<s> Faust</s> Eric''.
** The Discworld dwarf version of a
** The first ''Science of Discworld'' is, in part, a comedy version of our own universe's origin-story. The wizards compare the progression of events in Roundworld to several Disc creation myths, mostly while grousing that our world is doing it all wrong.
* Olaf Stapledon's ''The Star Maker'' provides a rare sci-fi version.
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* The [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarves']] worldview in the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', which the main character converts to. [[Flat Earth Atheist|The elves disagree with it.]]
* The world is created in the first poem of [[The Kalevala]]. Later poems tell about the birth of iron and beer.
* ''[[Enuma Elish]]'' is possibly ''the'' oldest
* In the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]], an Andorian creation myth referencing the sundering of their race into four genders is essential to the in-depth exploration of their culture. According to the myth, their race was split into four sexes to demonstate their lack of self-knowledge; they were missing a vital aspect of self-awareness that prevented them being Whole. To unite the four genders is to take a step towards reclaiming spiritual perfection - though the "missing piece" is also needed if Andorians are to truly grow as a people. See in particular the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine
* The Garden of Eden story pops up here and there in ''[[A Dirge for Prester John]]'', but each of the races of Pentexore have their own myths of how the world came to be. Later, John tries to rewrite Genesis to fit Pentexore in it, because he simply can't let it go.
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* Game author (and troper) [[User:Looney Toons|Robert M. Schroeck]] wrote a [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/genesis.shtml creation myth] for his fantasy roleplaying campaign Narth when he was first shaping the setting in the 1980s. Originally intended to be one of a set of (sometimes mutually contradictory) creation stories told by the races of the game world, it draws on a number of disparate sources ranging from the obvious (Tolkien) to the obscure (Fred Hoyle's SF novel ''[[wikipedia:The Black Cloud|The Black Cloud]]'').
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''Zelda'' series has one that's told in detail in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', assigning the three Goddesses of the Triforce their own important attribute, which they use to create the land and creatures as well as the mythical Triforce itself.
** Interestingly, this creation myth only partially agrees with the creation myth presented in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]''. However, [[Word of God]] states that ''Ocarina'' came first chronologically (at least until ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]'' came along), suggesting that the ''Link to the Past'' story may be the same one but details became distorted over time.
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* As the player progresses through ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' he unlocks chapters in Rosalina's Storybook, the tale of a girl and her Luma as they travel the cosmos in search of their respective mothers. It becomes clear very soon that the tale is autobiographical: the girl in the book is Rosalina's younger self, and the story tells how she came to leave her homeworld and become the immortal overseer of the Comet Observatory. She may not have ''created'' the universe, but she's essential in maintaining its cycle of death and rebirth.
== [[Web
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'', in its [[Serial Escalation|constant pursuit of epicness]], has explored this trope.
** ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' has the sequence in which Godhead Pickle Inspector calls his four TEMPORAL REPLICSIMILE-created clones {{spoiler|from the afterlife}} and tasks them with creating the universe ''by dividing in two, forwards and backwards in space, until they reach across all of time and thus constitute all elementary particles of the universe''.
** Andrew liked the idea, and ''[[Homestuck]]'' is, {{spoiler|[[Word of God|by his words]], [http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/1158290610 an elaborate creation myth] based on [[Spore]], [[
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▲* ''[[Strontium Dog|Strontium Dogs]]'' told the Gronks' creation myth while Gronk and Feral were looking for Johnny's corpse. In it, when God created the universe, He at first forgot to give the first gronk a heart. After taking care of the rest of creation, God saw that humanity was pretty much going to wreck the place, and so returned to Blas and gave the gronks four hearts, in order that they would embody love.
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