It is the human nature to wonder about how humans arrived on this earth, and how the world was created. Every culture has its own beliefs of creation. The foundation of every culture is surrounded around creation stories and myths that explain how the earth was formed, these stories have been told for hundreds of years and are what we know today. These myths have a great influence on peoples beliefs of how everything came to be. They influence the way people think about the world in which we live and their place in their surroundings.All cultures beliefs are based around the same basic elements. Many creation stories are created around the theme of birth, or with the earth and how it was retrieved. Many begin with birth as the beginning of new life on earth, this may have been thought up as it is similar to the beginning of a humans life.The beginning of earth, the life of the earth and the life of a child is seen as similar as it all began somewhere. This is closely related to the idea of a mother and a father exisiting in the creation of the world. Some cultures believe that the earth was retrived by water. In some of them the gods, people and animals just emerge from the earth just like plants still do, these myths are similar to those of the Aboriginal Australians and is also common among the American Indians creation stories.

A supreme being also appears in most myths. He or she is what triggers the events that create the world. This is seen in Eyptian creation myths where their are rival gods, the most common is the Nun, the ocean from which another god Amen rises out of. His name is Re. These two gods create a son and a daughter. The son and daughter create the race of gods while Amen (Re) cries and his tears become mankind.

Not all cultures imagine life startin on earth. Some believe that it all came to be above or below where we are now. Some also believe that the earth was covered in water and the earth was bought to the surface - these are called divermyths.

All these different myths and creation stories continue to make us wonder how the world began. Even now we still continue to make assumptions and theories of how we believe and think the world was created. These assumptions made today however are based on scientific knowledge.