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- Fantasy is number one. Steampunk, sci-fi, alternate history, and everything else that isn't boringly realistic are also fine by me.
One of mankind's oldest questions has always been "How did we get here?". It's worth assuming that, in your world, the humans or Elves or aliens or whatever they might be have also asked this question. But everyone that asks gets a slighly different version. Take a look at Earth, for example.
Abrahamic faiths take it that a single god created everthing from force of will. The Greeks had it that a goddess assembled Chaos into an orderly world. The Aztecs had another spontaneous-creation god, but it had sex with itself and a bunch of babies came and assembled everything as we know it. Giant turtles, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, gods of all shapes and sizes, chaos and voids and all kinds of things... and we haven't even gotten to scientific theories yet!
Fact is, explaining how we got here is always a challenge, and one unlikely for any culture to ignore. So if your culture is lacking a creation story, bada bing bada bam, here ya go!
YOUR JOB
to make a creation story, either scientific, religious, or merely storytelling tradition, that explains how the world came to be according to a culture.
Some questions you may want to consider:
RESOURCES!
Creation story Database - http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/re/information/creation/creation_home.htm
Iroquois - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6375/
Aztec - http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-creation-story.html
Greek - http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/greek_creation_myths.html
Pastafarian - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pastafarian_creation_myth
Big Bang Theory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
Non-BB scientific theories - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_cosmology
Abrahamic faiths take it that a single god created everthing from force of will. The Greeks had it that a goddess assembled Chaos into an orderly world. The Aztecs had another spontaneous-creation god, but it had sex with itself and a bunch of babies came and assembled everything as we know it. Giant turtles, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, gods of all shapes and sizes, chaos and voids and all kinds of things... and we haven't even gotten to scientific theories yet!
Fact is, explaining how we got here is always a challenge, and one unlikely for any culture to ignore. So if your culture is lacking a creation story, bada bing bada bam, here ya go!
YOUR JOB
to make a creation story, either scientific, religious, or merely storytelling tradition, that explains how the world came to be according to a culture.
Some questions you may want to consider:
- Was there something before the current world? Something before that? What was there first?
- Was the world purposely created or an accident?
- Are there gods, deities, immortals, or other similar beings that were there at the time or shortly after?
- How did this story of creation come to your people? Was it told to them by someone? Did they adopt it from another culture? Was it spontaneously created?
- What is the bias on this story that reflects on the cultue that tells it? (For instance, the Aztecs have it that their homelands were created first and are at the center of everything, an obvious political move)
- How fluid is this story? Does it change with the times/ideas/facts the culture is aware of? Do the people in charge of recording or telling it make alterations? If so, how has it changed from its original form?
RESOURCES!
Creation story Database - http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/re/information/creation/creation_home.htm
Iroquois - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6375/
Aztec - http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-creation-story.html
Greek - http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/greek_creation_myths.html
Pastafarian - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pastafarian_creation_myth
Big Bang Theory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
Non-BB scientific theories - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_cosmology