Egyptian mythology
The Egyptian Creation Myth: Atum and the Ennead
The Egyptian creation myth: from the primordial Nun to Atum, the birth of the Heliopolitan Ennead and the order of the world against the chaos of Apophis.
Creation myths
No cosmogony really starts from nothing. Hesiod's Chaos precedes the gods without producing them, Egypt raises a primordial mound out of the waters of Nun, and the Norse begin with a giant, Ymir, whose dismembered body becomes the world. These stories set three founding gestures side by side — separating, emitting, dismembering — and note what each source adds: the Theogony, the rival cosmogonies of Heliopolis and Memphis, the Völuspá.
Greek mythology
The Greek Creation Myth: from Chaos to the Olympians
The Greek creation myth in Hesiod's Theogony: from primordial Chaos to Gaia, from the Titans to the Olympians, the ordered birth of the cosmos.
Norse mythology
The Norse Creation Myth: Ymir and the Ginnungagap
The Norse creation myth: from the yawning void of Ginnungagap to the body of the giant Ymir, how Odin and his brothers shape the world and the first humans.