Religions tended to put the idea of creation into a context that could
be understood by the masses. A Hindu creation myth believes that the tortoise
supports elephants that hold up the world, and everything is encircled by the
world serpent. Elephants are common in India North America ) closely resembles the book of genesis, but
uses the Great Spirit rather than a God figure. The Abanaki were forest
dwellers so forest animals became their spirit guides, their connection to the
great unknown.
There were at least three separate cosmogonies in Egyptian mythology,
corresponding to at least two separate groups of worshippers. The Ennead, in which Atum arose from the
primordial waters, (The Nile perhaps) and the Ogdoad, in which Ra arose, either
in an egg, or a blue lotus, as a result of the creative interaction between the
primordial forces of water and air. Again, water (the Nile )
and Air, something all creatures require. These both later combined into a
third where for a time, the creators of each were identified as being one and
the same
Along
the Nile river there were many nesting birds
and beautiful flowers so it is easy to see how these may play a role in a
religious creation..
NOTE:
(The Big Bang
theory is the prevailing cosmological model of the early
development of the universe. The
most commonly held view is that the universe was once a gravitational singularity, which expanded extremely rapidly from its hot and
dense state. However, while this expansion is well-modeled by the Big Bang theory, the origins of
the singularity remain as one of the unsolved problems in physics. Perhaps the collider black hole theory would explain
this?)