There are many similarities and differences between Greek Mythology and The Bible. Whether it’s the creative activity of adult male and adult females. or the existence. narratives have been told throughout clip and some can be likewise and others wholly different. There are people that have gathered. translated and recorded all of these events for us now to larn about.

Whether a individual believes it is true or non is up to them but if a God is existent how come the narratives between these two different beliefs can be so similar. A strong similarity is the creative activity of adult male and the existence. However the Grecian Myths and the Bible have many differences when it comes to how and why everything happened.

A comparing between these two is the creative activity of the existence. In Genesis 1:1 it states that “the Earth was amorphous and empty. darkness was over the surface of the deep. and the Spirit of God was vibrating over the waters” ( Genesis 1:2 ) . Then throughout seven yearss. God created visible radiation. the sky. the sea. workss. stars. birds. animate beings that live in H2O. farm animal. and eventually mankind to govern over all the others. Everything starts away as a dark. empty null much like in the Grecian Myths.

In Mythology there was a batch of pandemonium to get down until Tethis the first female parent mated with an eternal river to make Gaia. Tartarus. and Eros. After that. Gaia ( Mother Earth ) mated with Ouranos ( the sky ) and created the Titans.

The Grecian God’s created all the living existences on Earth because they were bored and had nil else to make. Unlike God it did non take seven yearss to make all. The Grecian God’s would merely believe of something and it would go on. Prometheus was given the undertaking to model the animate beings from clay and Epimetheus gave them their alone abilities. In the Bible. whatever Adam called the animate being was what it was named. With worlds nevertheless. it took many attempts for world to be created and with both the Bible and Mythology. there was a inundation to pass over out everything.

In the creative activity of work forces. both in the Bible and Myths. he was created from the Earth. In the Bible adult male was formed from dust and God breathed life into him. When worlds became so corrupted. God sent a inundation to kill everything on Earth. He spared Noah and his household along with seven braces of every animate being on Earth to repopulate one time the inundation had passed.

There are two versions from which work forces were created in Greek Mythology. Homer’s version is that adult male was molded from clay by Prometheus but was non given any particular power because Epimetheus forgot about them. Hesiod’s version was that of a series of races: gold. Ag. bronze. heroes. and Fe. The clip of the aureate work forces was when Kronos ruled and everything was an easy. perfect Eden until they vanished. Silver was under Zeus’ regulation when adult male had a short adulthood and atrocious old age.

They were chesty and disappeared under the Earth. During the bronze epoch of adult male there was changeless warfare until Zeus sends a inundation to kill all of world. After that. the heroes followed. a clip of mighty persons who battled monsters and had a peaceable hereafter. Finally the epoch of the Fe adult male. a balance towards contending and attitude to the Gods. This clip is besides the clip of the creative activity of adult females.

Nowadays people don’t see adult females as evil but in the Bible and Myth’s adult females are defined as “beautiful and evil creatures” ( Gods and Goddesses ) . The first adult female. Eve. was created from the rib of Adam so adult females are the flesh and blood of adult male. Adam and Eve are the first worlds in the Bible and at first all is calm and happy that is until Eve chows from the tree of cognition of good and evil. The snake tricks her into eating the fruit and Eve portions it with Adam.

Because of this Eve is evil for sharing the cognition to Adam and leveling with God. In Grecian Mythology. Prometheus and Epimetheus warn their kids Deucalion and Pyrrha about the at hand inundation. They build an Ark on which they survive and reach Mount Parnassus. That is where they consult the goddess Themis on how to repopulate the Earth.

Deucalion was told: “You and your married woman are to veil your caputs. and as you walk from my sanctuary. throw behind you the castanetss of your mother” ( Waterfield. Robin ) . So Deucalion and Pyrrha threw behind them stones. the castanetss of Gaia and the stones that Pyrrha threw formed adult females and the stones Deucalion threw formed work forces. Another version on the creative activity of adult females is the narrative of Pandora and her box. Prometheus as the God of world is ever looking out for them. He tricks Zeus into taking the worthless offering and gives worlds the better part.

As penalty Zeus takes fire from worlds but Prometheus steals it back. Outraged. Zeus asks Hephaestus to hammer a adult female. Athena and Aphrodite taught her feminine accomplishments. grace. and temptingness. Hermes gave her a craft head and a thievish disposition. Pandora was sent down to Earth with a box in which all the atrocious things in the universe were indoors. Finally her wonder got the best of her and Pandora opened the box unleashing all the immoralities into the universe. This is why adult females are seen as beautiful and evil.

Although people might believe that these two topics seem wholly unrelated. They have much more in common than thought possible. This is merely rubing the surface of the outrageousness of the comparings between these two topics. The chief thought may be the same of a batch of these but there are many different versions dividing the Bible from Grecian Mythology.

Plants Cited
Supreme beings and Goddesses. A & A ; E Television Networks The History Channel. 2001. DVD

Waterfield. Robin. and Kathryn Waterfield. The Grecian Myths: Narratives of the Grecian Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold. London: Quercus. 2011. Print.

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