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In my spare time (read: procrastination) I like to read about a handful of miscellaneous topics. One of my favorites? Creation myths. I'm not sure why. For someone so fascinated with evolution, it seems a little silly that I like reading creation stories.

They are divided up into regions and then cultures. So, there's Asian myths, Middle Eastern myths, European myths, and American myths (American meaning the Americas, south and north). Within American myths, for example, you'd find stories from the Hopi, the Cherokee, the Aztecs, the Mayans... you get the idea. The one that you might be more familiar with is one from the Middle East, obviously. The crazy thing about the Judeo-Christian creation myth is that apparently there are two of them. I haven't dug out a Bible to check, but it's not a big discrepancy but interesting to note. In short, one myth has Yahweh creating plants and animals before man and the other has it just the opposite. Disclaimer though, I haven't looked it up myself (mainly because I'm not sure where a Bible is in my room).

However, part of my fascination probably originates from Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World. There is one point in the novel in which the titular character is asked to imagine how the world might have come to be, ignoring everything she knows. I don't remember off-hand what her myth was, but that's not the point. For some reason, I like reading creation myths. And that's about it.

Cheers!