Creation Myth Worksheet

Template 1: Creation/Origin Myths

Briefly compare and contrast three myths from your reading.

|FIRST CREATION MYTH: HESiod’s theogony |REGION or CULTURE: GREEK |

|Who created the world? |Gaea(female) |

|Who were the main characters involved? |Gaea(female) ,taturus(male), Eros(male), and uranus (male)Chaos(male) |

|What was the process? |Out of chaos, mother earth Gaea first came to existence full of life |

| |and power, Gaea created high mountain, low lands, rivers, lakes, and |

| |seas. Soon Chaos created Tartarus, the embodiment of the underworld |

| |who built his home deep below the world of Gaea. |

|What was the motivation to create the world? |The motivation to create the world was of division and begins to |

| |divide into more and more beings of increasing variety. |

|How did humankind come into being? |Zeus the god of gods commissioned some of the gods to create |

| |humankind. Prometheus(male) and (male)Hephaestus made the models of |

| |man. Athena(female) and other gods gave them life. |

|Which gods maintain involvement in the newly created world? |Zeus(Male), Hades(male), Poseidon(male), Hera(female), |

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