Lista de mitos da criação

Tipo básico

Criação do caos

Enûma Eliš (Babylonian creation myth)Greek cosmogonical mythJamshidKorean creation narrativesKumulipoLeviathan (Book of Job 38–41 creation myth)Mandé creation mythPanguRaven in CreationSerer creation mythSumerian creation mythTungusic creation mythUnkulunkuluVäinämöinenViracocha

Mergulhador da terra

Ainu creation mythCherokee creation mythIroquois creation mythVäinämöinenYoruba creation mythOb-Ugric creation myth

Emergência

Hopi creation mythMaya creation of the world mythDiné Bahaneʼ (Navajo)Zuni creation myth

Ex nihilo (do nada)

Debate between sheep and grainBarton cylinderAncient Egyptian creation mythsGenesis creation myth (Judaism, Christianity and Islam)Kabezya-MpunguMāori mythsMbomboNgaiPopol Vuh

Pai do mundo

CoatlicueEnûma ElišGreek cosmogonical mythHeliopolis creation mythHiranyagarbha creation mythKumulipoRangi and PapaVöluspá

Gêmeos divinos

Proto-Indo-European creation myths

Regional

África

Ancient Egyptian creation mythsFon creation mythKaang creation story (Bushmen)Kintu myth (Bugandan)Mandé creation mythMbombo (Kuba, Bakuba or Bushongo/Boshongo)Ngai (Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai )Serer creation myth (cosmogony of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania)Unkulunkulu (Zulu)Yoruba creation

Américas

MesoamericaCoatlicue (Aztec)Maya creation of the world mythPopol Vuh (Quiché Mayan)Mid North AmericaAnishinaabeg creation storiesCherokee creation mythChoctaw creation mythCreek creation mythHopi creation mythKuterastan (Plains Apache)Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo)Raven in Creation (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian)Zuni creation mythSouth AmericaLegend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu (Chilean)Viracocha (Incan)Xolas (Chilean)

Ásia

Central AsiaErgenekonMongolian creation mythTungusic creation mythEast AsiaAinu creation myth (Japan)Au Co (Vietnamese)Chinese creation mythJapanese creation mythKorean creation narrativesNüwa (Chinese)Pangu (Chinese)Indian subcontinentAjativadaBuddhist cosmologyFolk Hindu creation mythHiranyagarbha creation (India)Jainism and non-creationism (India)Meitei mythology (India)Mimamsa eternalism (India)Nyaya-Vaisheshika atomic theory (India)Samkhya-yoga theory (India)Sanamahi creation myth (India)

Europa

Slavic creation mythTheogony (Classical Greco-Roman)Book of Invasions (Celtic)Väinämöinen (Finnish)Völuspá (Norse)

Médio Oriente

Debate between sheep and grainEnûma Eliš (Babylonian)Genesis creation myth (Hebrew)Islamic creation myth (Arabic)Leviathan (Book of Job 38-41 creation myth)Mashya and Mashyana (Persian)Sumerian creation myth

Ilhas do Pacífico/Oceanic

Areop-Enap (Nauruan)Kumulipo (Hawaiian)Māori myths (Māori)Rangi and Papa (Māori)Sureq Galigo (Buginese)

Em mitopéia

Na mitopéia, uma mitologia artificial criada por escritores de prosa ou outra ficção, temas mitológicos e arquétipos tradicionais são integrados à ficção. Algumas obras de mitopéia também apresentam mitos da criação:

Ainulindalë from Tolkien's The Silmarillion