Essay About Different Areas Of The World And God Buri

Myths Across Cultures
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For this paper I have chose the Navajo peoples creation myth and the Norse peoples
Creation myth. They have many similarities between the two and I will do my best to describe
them and their similarities. Though these to physically different looking people come from
very different areas of the world they are very similar in legends and myths.
The first myth I will describe is that from the Navajo and there first world was filled with
emptiness and darkness. This world had six beings first man, first woman, salt woman, fire
god, coyote and Begochiddy. Begochiddy was the being that created the mountains and water
to fill the void. Begochiddy has been described as a male figure and the creator of all that fills
the world, he also taught the first man and woman how to live. Begochiddy had moved man
from world to world for various reasons one of them was because of a great flood that filled
the world. Another was because first man and woman had many fights with another being and
Begochiddy knew they would never overcome their differences so he moved his people to
another world.
The second myth is that of the people of the Norse and there myth of how their world
began. Ginnungagap was a great void of any living being that had nothing in it, to the North
there was Niflheim and to the south was Muspell. In Muspell it was so hot that everything was
on fire nothing could grow there in its many lakes and rivers of fire. Niflheim was so cold that
everything was iced over and nothing could grow there. Muspell was so hot its heat eventually
started to melt the ice of Niflheim and the first being a giant called Ymir emerged from the ice.
Two more being emerged from the ice the god Buri and his goddess wife, they had a son
named Bor and Bor later had a son names Odin who would become the King of the Gods.
When Odin and the other gods could no longer stand Ymir the cruel giant they killed him and
his body would fill the void in Ginnungagap forming what is now called Midgard.
These two myths like many across