Creation Myth
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- Japanese Creation
- Long time ago, all the elements were mixed together with one germ of life.
- This germ began to mix things around and around until the heavier part sank and the lighter part rose.
- Judeo-Christian-Islamic
- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- A muddy sea that covered the entire earth was created.
- From this ocean grew a green shoot. It grew and grew until it reached the clouds and there it was transformed into a god.
- Let there be light
- Day one:
- The last two gods it made, Izanagi and Izanami, were the most remarkable.
- Soon this god grew lonely, and it began to create other gods.
- And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning.
- Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters
- Day two:
- One day as they were walking along, they looked down on the ocean and wondered what was beneath it.
- Izanagi thrust his staff into the waters and as he pulled it back up some clumps of mud fell back into the sea. They began to harden and grow until they became the islands of Japan.
- The two descended to these islands and began to explore, each going in different directions.
- And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning.
- Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.
- let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth.
- Day three:
- When they met again they decided to marry and have children to inhabit the land.
- They created all kinds of plants.
- God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas.The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning,
- Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth
- Day four:
- Their second daughter, Tsuki-yami, became the moon
- The first child Izanami bore was a girl of radiant beauty. The gods decided she was too beautiful to live in Japan, so they put her up in the sky and she became the sun
- And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning
- Day five:
- Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens
- Their third and unruly son, Sosano-wo, was sentenced to the sea, where he creates storms.
- God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Day six:
- Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth
- Later, their first child, Amaterasu, bore a son who became the emperor of Japan and all the emperors since then have claimed descent from him.
- God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food."
- Day seven:
- Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. God finished his work which he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
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