Ancient Legends on the Creation of Man and Woman with Correspondencies to the Biblical Ac

Wom
Region Civilization Creation by a god In a god’s image Created from earth Given breath

By goddesses Nammu and Ninmah Comparable to the Made from pieces of Wom
Sumerian
(COS 1, 159; AT 37-39) gods clay man
Middle By Belus (Bel, or Marduk, chief god;
Used his blood Soil mixed with blood
East Euseb “Chaldean Chronicle” 5)
Babylonian
By Mami (also called Nintu, the Used blood of a slain Usd clay mixed with
mother-goddess; AT 99-100) god blood to create man
By Khnum (a god; Hist ME vol. 1, Out of clay on a
pp. 181, 222) potter’s wheel
Egyptian
Men are images of Made the breath of life
By God (AT 417)
him for men’s nostrils
Shilluk of the Out of earth; its color
Africa By Juok (the creator; FL 22)
White Nile determining the race
Fan of West Made man out of
By God (FL 23)
Africa clay
Made man out of
Ewe of Togo By God (FL 23)
clay
By Hephaestus (god of smiths, fire & Molded the first wo-
volcanoes; Works 60-62, 69-71) man of earth & water
Greek
By Prometheus (a Titan; Apollo 1, 7, Molded men of earth
Europe
1) & water
Cheremiss of
By God (FL 22) Made man of clay
Russia
Made man & woman
Kumi By God (FL 17-18)
out of clay
Made man & woman
India Korkus By Mahadeo (a god; FL 18)
of red dirt of ant-hill
Munda of Made man & woman
By Singbonga (the Sun god; FL 19)
Chota Nagpur out of clay
Karen of Created man from God breathed a particle Wom
By God (FL 10)
Burma earth of life into their nostrils man
Asia
Bedel Tartar of Bon
By God (FL 11)
Siberia ribs
Malekula of Kneaded man and
By Bokor (the great being; FL 12)
New Hebrides woman out of clay
Noo-hoo-roa of By Dooadlera (the supreme God; FL Made men out of Breated life into the
Kei Islands 12-13) clay figures clay figures
Dyak of Molded man out of
By two large birds (FL 14)
Malayasia damp earth
Islands Sea Dyak of Hammered man out
off Asia By Salampandai (a god; FL 14)
Malayasia of clay on an anvil
By Luo Zaho (the supreme god; FL Made progenitor orf Made the progenitor Put wind on the lips of
Nias
15) man like him in form of men out of earth the progenitor of man
Bila-an of Min- Made the first two Made the first two
By Melu (a huge being; FL 16)
danao, Philpns people in his likeness people out of earth
Bagobo of Min- Made man & woman
By Diwata (FL 17)
danao, Philpns of lumps of earth
Aborigine of Made two men of
Australia By Pund-jel (the creator of all; FL 8)
Melbourne clay
By Kane, Ku and Lono (3 creator Made in Kane’s Made men of red Breated into man’s Wom
Hawaiian
gods; HFT 15-16) likeness clay nose man
Used red riverside Breathed into his mouth Mad
New Zealand By Tiki (a god; FL 8-10) Made in Tiki’s image
clay and nostrils rib
Mad
Tahitian By Taaroa (the chief god; FL 9) Used red earth
mad
Man
Fakaofo (FL 10)
Pacific eart
islands Nui Island of Made man & woman
By Aulialia (a god; FL 11)
Tuvalu out of earth
Made men out of
Palauan By a brother and sister (FL 11)
clay w/animal blood
Mota of Banks Molded men of clay Mad
By Qat (a hero; FL 12)
Isles, Vanuatu from the riverside twig
Minahassa, of By Wailan Wangko and Wangi (2 Made 2 images of
Celebes beings; FL 13) clay, man & woman
Lengua of Made man & woman
By the Creator (FL 28)
South Paraguay out of clay
America Indian of Made each nation
By the Creator (FL 28)
Cuzco, Peru separately out of clay
North Eskimo of Pt. Made man out of Breathed into him and
By A se lu (a spirit; FL 24)
America Barrow, Alaska clay gave him life
Acagehemem By Chinigchinich (a powerful being; Created man &
of California FL 24) woman out of clay
Maidu of Made their hands in Made man & woman
By Earth-Initiate (FL 24)
California likeness of his hands out of clay
Kawakipai of Made man out of Mad
By Tcaipakomat (FL 25)
California clay man
Hopi of By Huruing Whuti (a goddess; FL Made woman and
 26) then man out of clay
Arizona By Sotuknang (nephew of the Made man from clay Used 4 colors of clay,
Made in his image
Creator, Tiowa; Primal 271) and spittle one for each race
Pima of Mixed clay with his
By the Creator (FL 27) Blew upon the clay
Arizona sweat to make men
Natchez of Kneaded some clay
By God (FL 27) Blew upon the clay
Louisiana into man
Okanagon of Out of earth; its color the Indians being made
By God (Primal 243)
the Algonquin determining the race, of red earth

References:
Apollo The Library by Apollodorus of Alexandria, translated by James Frazer; 2nd Century BCE
AT Ancient Near Eastern texts Relating to the Old Testament edited by James B. Pritchard, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992
COS The Context of Scripture edited by William W. Hallo, Leiden, Holland, 2003
Euseb Eusebius’ Chronicle Translated from the Classical Armenian by Robert Bedrosian
FL Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend & Law by James George Frazer, vol. 1, London, MacMillan and Co., 1918
HFT Hawaiian FolkTales: A Collection of Native Legends compiled by Thos. G. Thrum, Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1907
Hist ME History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by G. Maspero, London, The Grolier Society
Primal Primal Myths by Barbara C. Sproul, New York, Harper Collins, 1979
Works “Works and Days” in Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica translated by Hugh G. Eveyln-White, Loeb, 1920