The OLD TESTAMENT opens

with a magnificently confident

statement: 'In the beginning
God created the heaven and
the earth.

SUMMERIAN
MYTHS

THE BIBLE
STORY

ANCIENT
STORIES

STEADY-STATE
UNIVERSE

THE UNIVERSE

MODERN
THOUGHTS

In the beginning there was only the

goddess Nammu, the Primordial Sea
who lived in total darkness until she
gave birth to the universe, Anki,
who was heaven and earth in one.
Anki then made the air god Enlil
who split the universe in two,
making An, the god of the sky and
Ki, who became the goddess of the

AZTEC
CREATION
STORY
BIG BANG THEORY

The story of creation, according to the

Aztecs, is actually a story of birth, death,
and rebirth. When the world is destroyed,
it's born again through the sacrifice of one of
the gods, and so through the birth of a new
sun. So you'll often hear of the legend of
the five suns - the five births of the world.
Five suns, and so five different worlds, have
existed. When the story is told, the order of
the
worlds
is
sometimes
different,
sometimes there are even less that five
suns, but the general idea remains the same