'Biblical and Greco-Roman Creation Myths'

'A populace account loafer be delineate as a symbolic narration that describes the whilener in which the world came into hu bitity and beg offs how life came to last it. Al to the highest degree all culture roughly the world has its accept version of events that guide to the beingness of gentle beings and of mankind, and these accounts lay the arse for the values and attitudes of that confederation by explaining the exercise of man in the world and designate values to miscellaneous forms of life such(prenominal) as plants and animals. They as well often explain the forces of nature, such as floods and storms, in copulation to the all-powerful source or creators in hopes to better interpret their environment. Two of the most studied ethnical viewpoints, the biblical and Graeco-Roman customss, are no exception to this praxis of influence. The biblical tradition details the events of beingness and decline of man through the freshman some(prenominal) chapte rs of the book of Genesis in both(prenominal) the Hebrew and Christian bibles. The authoritative tradition contains several diametrical literary accounts, including the rendering of the events of human race and the ages later on in Metamorphoses by Ovid. with the detailed description of the world as it came into being, the acts of beau ideal or gods and the role of man, these creation myths support keenness into for each one clubhouses view of the human, animal, and natural world. \nTo begin, both traditions define the human world as quality and most significant in the creation narratives by relaying the words and actions of the creators as man was organize; however, they differ in how and why man was formed. In Genesis, the low and second chapters offer two different explanations for the creation of man, and each explanation provides an altered view of the immenseness and place of mankind. In the first chapter, man is modeled after graven images own encounter which implies he is superior to the other creatures God has produced, and this role of superiority is confirmed when God states man was m...'